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Brazil & Southern Cone - 24 August 2004
URUGUAY: Poll shakes rightwing
The consensus amongst politicians (and ordinary Uruguayans) has been that this October's elections were likely to be a retread of the last elections in 1999: the leftist Encuentro Progresista-Frente Amplio's candidate would win in the first round but then be edged out in the second round by an alliance between the two traditional parties, the Blancos and Colorados. This consensus took a knock on 18 August with the publication of a poll which showed that the FA candidate, Tabaré Vázquez would win,
decisively, in the first round and thus negate the need for a second round.
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