Weekly Report - 22 May 2025 (WR-25-20)

Uruguay’s left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) coalition will govern the department of Lavalleja for the first time in its history, breaking the uninterrupted 35-year stranglehold on power of the centre-right Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos). The population of the department is only 60,000, a drop in the ocean compared with the 1.4m in Montevideo, where the FA extended its own monopoly on power dating back to 1990, but the unexpected victory nonetheless transforms its mediocre performance in the local elections into a success.

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