Weekly Report - 08 January 2015 (WR-15-01)

Uruguay’s president-elect Tabaré Vázquez will face a much tougher task preserving unity within the ruling left-wing coalition Frente Amplio (FA) when he takes office on 1 March than he did during his first term in office (2005-2010). On 30 December the Movimiento de Participación Popular (MPP), the largest faction within the coalition, served notice of its intent to make its presence felt during his second term. The MPP, which sits further to the Left than Vázquez, confirmed that Senator Lucía Topolansky, the wife of President José Mujica, would run for intendant of Montevideo, the second most important elected post in Uruguay, in the departmental and municipal elections on 10 May this year. The FA had already chosen a candidate representing the more moderate wing of the coalition, from which Vázquez hails, to run in Montevideo.

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