Weekly Report - 10 October 2019 (WR-19-40)

Guido Manini Ríos, the former army commander and presidential candidate of Uruguay’s right-wing Cabildo Abierto (CA), has successfully fought off an attempt to bring him before a court before the first round of general elections on 27 October. Manini Ríos is the only presidential candidate whose support increased in the latest electoral survey by local pollster Radar. While he remains fourth, and at some remove from the second-place berth required to proceed to a run-off, he is on course to record the strongest performance by a candidate not standing for one of the three traditional parties in Uruguay’s history. The CA is set to return an influential bloc to congress as a result.

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