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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 24 January 2020
URUGUAY: Race for Montevideo produces divisions
The competition to secure nominations for the Montevideo mayoral candidacy ahead of Uruguay’s municipal elections on 10 May is producing significant divisions among the country’s main political parties. The capital is the biggest prize up for grabs in the polls and mayoral hopefuls are never in short supply. But the historic defeat suffered by the incumbent Frente Amplio (FA) leftist coalition in last year’s presidential election has led the opposition to believe that it is in a good position to snatch control of Montevideo from the FA for the first time since 1990. This prospect has increased internal pressures to find the best possible candidate, producing divisions among party factions that have threatened to splinter both the FA and the opposition.
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