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Weekly Report - 11 December 2014 (WR-14-49)
URUGUAY: Scant encouragement for opposition
The final breakdown of the second round presidential electoral result did not provide too many crumbs of comfort for Uruguay’s opposition. In the 15 years since the first run-off in the country’s history in 1999, after its adoption in an electoral reform three years earlier, the ruling left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) coalition has spread out from its electoral bastion of Montevideo to control a majority of Uruguay’s 19 departments. No sooner had former president Tabaré Vázquez (2005-2010) won election, however, than differences began to emerge within the FA over cabinet positions.
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