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Weekly Report - 01 October 2020 (WR-20-39)
URUGUAY: Blancos back up electoral triumph
It is necessary to go back more than 30 years to see so many departmental intendants (governors) representing Uruguay’s centre-right Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos) come to power. In 1989 the PN lost in only three of 19 departmental elections, including Montevideo, where Tabaré Vázquez launched his political career by becoming the first governor for the left-wing coalition Frente Amplio (FA). The PN is now the big winner again. On 27 September, in departmental and municipal elections postponed from May because of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, it lost out on just four governorships. It was another electoral setback for the FA after losing control of the presidency for the first time since 2005 in March to a five-party coalition led by the PN’s Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou. But the FA did retain three departments, including Montevideo, which between them comprise nearly two-thirds of the national population of 3.5m inhabitants.
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