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Weekly Report - 30 October 2014 (WR-14-43)

URUGUAY: FA clings on to majorities

It will take something very special from Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, of the main opposition Partido Nacional (PN; Blancos), to deny the ruling left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) coalition a third straight term in power in a run-off on 30 November. The FA presidential candidate, former president Tabaré Vázquez (2005-2010), won much the same number of votes as all of his rivals combined in the first round of presidential elections on 26 October and heads into the run-off against Lacalle Pou a strong favourite. Vázquez will also be buoyed by the knowledge that for the second time in a row the political opposition fell one seat short of depriving the FA of a majority in the lower chamber and the senate in the concurrent congressional elections.

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