URUGUAY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, WITH FORMER PRESIDENT JULIO MARIA SANGUINETTI DECLARING VICTORY

Record ID: 190464

  • Title: URUGUAY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, WITH FORMER PRESIDENT JULIO MARIA SANGUINETTI DECLARING VICTORY
  • Date: 27th November 1994
  • Summary: EXPECTED MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY (NOVEMBER 27 AND 28, 1994) (RTV - AVAILABLE ALL) 1. GV/SV INTERIORS COLORADO PARTY HEADQUARTERS, SANGUINETTI SUPPORTERS WAVING COLORADO PARTY FLAGS AND SANGUINETTI BANNERS/ SUPPORTERS CHANTING "SANGUINETTI" (5 SHOTS) 0.19 2. CU/LV COLORADO PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JULIO MARIA SANGUINETTI ARRIVING AT THE PARTY HEADQUARTERS AND GREETING SUPPORTERS, SANGUINETTI DECLARING HIMSELF WINNER (SPANISH) (2 SHOTS) 0.55 3. GV/SV CROWDS APPLAUDING AND CHANTING SUPPORT/CROWDS WAVING PARTY FLAGS AND BANNERS (2 SHOTS) 1.09 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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  • Location: MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
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  • Country: Uruguay LATIN AMERICA
  • Reuters ID: LVA99OKR175UIIAY80ZX3BQ6G960
  • Story Text: Polls closed in Uruguay on Sunday (November 27) after the most closely fought presidential election in the country's 166-year history, with former president Julio Maria Sanguinetti of the Colorado party declaring victory.

    Uruguay has 2.3 million registered voters. According to electoral officials, nearly 90 percent turned out to vote.

    The three parties vying for the presidency were a mere 1.6 points apart in opinion polls, with 28.6 percent for the ruling centrist National Party, 28.4 percent for the rival centrist Colorado Party and 27 percent for the centre-left Progressive Gathering.

    Sanguinetti declared himself the winner in the early hours of Monday morning, addressing a crowd of over 2,000 supporters gathered at Colorado party headquarters.

    Sanguinetti, 58, was the first president to be elected after the military sponsored elections in 1984. He describes himself as a social democrat but frequently attacks left-wing politics in his speeches.

    He succeeds President Luis Alberto Lacalle, whose efforts to push his country aboard Latin America's free-market bandwagon were defeated in a referendum in 1992 when a majority of Uruguayans voted against a policy of economic liberalism.

    Outside Sanguinetti's Colorado Party headquarters, revellers paraded in the streets, waving Colorado party flags and sounding car horns
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