Uruguay’s electoral year began with a fierce attack by Pedro Bordaberry on the government’s record public security. The likely presidential candidate for the right-wing opposition Partido Colorado (PC) this October, Bordaberry knows that this provides his main chance of upsetting the ruling left-wing Frente Amplio (FA); and he is seizing on mounting public concern about insecurity to collect signatures in order to hold a plebiscite together with the elections on whether to lower the age of sentencing to 16 from 18 for crimes such as rape and homicide. Polls suggest this would be successful.End of preview - This article contains approximately 361 words.
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