The former president (1990/1995) said Uruguay is banned constitutionally from calling elections for the Mercosur Parliament, which is made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay as full members. Venezuela is in the process of incorporation.
“You can’t legislate to call elections (in Uruguay) for the Mercosur parliament. We need a constitutional amendment which must also [...]

A former left-wing guerrilla has taken a commanding lead in several exit polls from Uruguay’s presidential election.
But most polls show Senator Jose Mujica has narrowly failed to pass the 50% needed to avoid a run-off vote.
If a second round is officially confirmed, he is likely to face his main conservative rival, the former president, Luis [...]

Pollster Interconsult announced the results of the first poll concerning the runoff election or “ballotage”. The poll’s results indicate that Mujica’s ruling Frente Amplio coalition would have 47% of the votes, and Lacalle’s Partido Nacional 40%.
Blank ballots are estimated to be around 2,5%, undecided 10,6%.
Poll’s margin of error is somewhere about 3.3%. 5000 inhabitants (800 [...]

Former president Jorge Batlle ratified his accusation in the presence of judge Jorge Díaz. Batlle summoned presidential candidate José Mujica and tupamaros leader Julio Marenales to clarify before the law their supposed relationship with accountant Julio Feldman and the arsenal found in Aires Puros.
On the other hand, Frente Amplio (FA) candidate, José Mujica, said that [...]

After FA presidential canditate Mujica has stated that “some right wing media” were working against his candidacy, El País published an article confirming such statement. “Yes, it is true that El País is on a campaign against Mujica presidential candidacy, but one does not have to be brilliant to reach this conclusion.
All one has to [...]

Pollster Factum has the Mujica ticket ahead with 49% of vote intention; Lacalle, 42% while 9% remain undecided. This means that the ruling Broad Front coalition retains its 48,5% vote of the first round while Mr. Lacalle has been able to add 13 percentage points to his 29% showing at the end of October.
The Uruguayan [...]

The final ballot confirms what the pollster announced. The FA did not win the first round for a few points (the party received 47.96% of the votes), but obtained the majority in both chambers.
The Partido Nacional won 29,07% of the votes, confirming its downward trend. The Partido Colorado received 17,2% of the votes, obtaining a [...]

Gustavo Penadés, in charge of the political campaign of the Partido Nacional (conservative wing), is considering the possibility of accepting a debate between the two presidential candidates, as proposed by Frente Amplio (left wing). “We believe that what is important is that the presidential candidates must be heard; we’ll find out the best way to [...]

Employer’s legal advisors Francisco Casal, said the deal to his client arrived with one of his sisters to sell its share of the house inherited after the death of his mother, was a “real business with market values.
Last week, the weekly reported that search the General Tax Directorate (DGI) began proceedings before the existence of [...]

Former Industry Minister and current Socialist Party Senator, Daniel Martínez, said the Frente Amplio is the best in all areas and the Nacional and Colorado parties are “an old model of pure discourse, of talking about modernity and being nearly feudal when administering policy.”
Martinez criticized the current system of runoff elections, which allows “someone with [...]

The Nacional Party (PN) held what may be considered as the first political rally for the second round of the national elections during a meeting of leaders from the departments of Canelones and Montevideo. PN vice presidential candidate Jorge Larrañaga said the party “has the support” of “Uruguayans without a party.”
Larrañaga said on 29 November, [...]

The Electoral Court has denied the Nacional and Colorado parties’ request for a recount. Both parties claimed there were irregularities on the election lists.
Pablo Abdala, Nacional Party deputy, said the claim was made after checking a number of “irregularities” in some polling stations, where apparently there were differences between the votes and those recorded.
Electoral Court [...]

The governing left-wing coalition in Uruguay has won a parliamentary majority for a second mandate after a general election on Sunday.
Preliminary results indicate that the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) coalition got 16 senators out of a total of 30 in the higher chamber of parliament.
It also obtained 50 deputies of the 99 in the lower [...]

MONTEVIDEO: Former left-wing guerrilla fighter Jose Mujica finished first in Uruguay’s presidential election but faces a run-off against a conservative to steer one of Latin America’s most stable economies, official results showed yesterday.
With ballots counted at nearly 95 percent of voting stations, Mujica, a 74-year-old senator who was jailed during Uruguay’s 1973-85 military dictatorship, had [...]

Whatever the outcome of the run off between the incumbent ticket of Jose Mujica/Danilo Astori and Luis Alberto Lacalle/Jorge Larrañaga, the ruling coalition retains the majority in Parliament with 16 out of thirty Senators, and 50 Deputies out of 99 members in the Lower House.
The main opposition National party received 28.53% of the vote; the [...]

MONTEVIDEO – Former left-wing guerrilla fighter Jose Mujica led Uruguay’s presidential election on Sunday but was headed for a run-off against a conservative rival to steer one of Latin America’s most stable economies.
With results in from 21 percent of voting stations, Mujica, a 74-year-old senator who was jailed during Uruguay’s 1973-85 military dictatorship, had 40.6 [...]

The ruling coalition candidate Jose Pepe Mujica and runner up Luis Alberto Lacalle, Cuqui, still have a month of intense campaigning ahead of them until November 28th.
Estimates at mid night Sunday indicate that the Broad Front and incumbent candidate Mujica garnered between 47 and 49% of the vote; the National party 30/32%; the junior opposition [...]

Five are the presidential candidates representing five political parties, the three major ones which have been in office, National, Colorado and the current Broad Front coalition plus the Independents and an extreme left grouping splintered from the Broad Front.
Incumbent Jose Mujica leads public opinion polls and is favoured to defeat Luis Alberto Lacalle from the [...]

The presidential candidate for the Nacional Party, Luis Alberto Lacalle, said Uruguayans want to think about their decision for another month and that is why all voting intention polls predict a runoff. Lacalle said that Uruguayans want time to decide between “certainty represented by the Nacional Party” and the “hypocrisy” of the Frente Amplio. Lacalle [...]

The presidential candidate for the Frente Amplio, José Mujica, said in his last rally in Pando, that the Frente Amplio Party’s struggle is as old as the history of the country and that the left is a valuable piece of that history. Affirming that his administration will be the continuation of Vázquez’s, Mujica said the [...]