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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2015 (ISSN 1741-4431)

POLITICS: Colorados in tailspin

The right-of-centre Partido Colorado (PC), historically the largest party in Uruguay, having been set up 11 years after independence in 1825, has fallen on very hard times. Already down to a paltry 13 of the 99 deputies in the lower chamber of congress and four of the 30 senators from last October’s general elections, the PC won just one department (known as an intendancy) in the regional and municipal elections on 10 May, and a meagre seven out of 112 mayoralties. To make matters worse, in early June it emerged that the department it lost - Salto - in northern Uruguay, had amassed significant debts and its governor and local PC officials are likely to become part of a corruption probe shortly - another blow to the party’s prestige.

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