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Weekly Report - 18 September 2014 (WR-14-37)
URUGUAY: Election campaign takes new twist
Just as opinion polls are suggesting that Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, the presidential candidate of the centre-right opposition Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos), could deny the ruling left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) coalition a third straight term in power, a strange incident is threatening to damage his chances. At the tail end of last week Lacalle Pou was at the centre of an unedifying spat with Pedro Bordaberry, the leader of the second main opposition party Partido Colorado (PC), whose endorsement he would require to triumph in an inevitable second round run-off in November.
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