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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Presidential hopeful Jose Mujica who has had trouble lately for speaking out his mind and soul heartily embraced with President Tabare Vazquez before tens of photographers and television camera-men, at the beginning and the end of a protocol ceremony which turned into a political milestone
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Uruguay’s Navy academy schooner Capitan Miranda was returning from a 270 [...]

All polls made public indicate that the ruling coalition presidential ticket has a solid majority in the range of 44%, while the main opposition party has been sliding and loosing ground since July and currently stands between 29% and 31%, having accumulated a loss of eight to nine points in this period.
The Colorado party between [...]

A survey from Equipos-Mori has the vice-president candidate of the ruling coalition presidential ticket, Danilo Astori, as the second most popular with 50% of support and his running mate Jose Mujica with 49%.
Former guerrilla leader and ex Minister of Agriculture Mujica during the five years of the ruling coalition was always only second to President [...]