URUGUAY: CENTRE-LEFT CANDIDATE TABARE VAZQUEZ WINS THE MOST VOTES IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
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URUGUAY: CENTRE-LEFT CANDIDATE TABARE VAZQUEZ WINS THE MOST VOTES IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
- Title: URUGUAY: CENTRE-LEFT CANDIDATE TABARE VAZQUEZ WINS THE MOST VOTES IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
- Date: 2nd November 1999
- Summary: MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY (NOVEMBER 1, 1999)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV/SV STREET SCENES (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. MCU MAN READING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE REGARDING ELECTIONS 0.14 3. CU HEADLINES AND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE ELECTION (2 SHOTS) 0.23 4. MCU/SV PEOPLE HANGING OUT IN FRONT OF NEWSPAPER KIOSK (2 SHOTS) 0.33 5. SLV/LV BEACH SCENES (2 SHOTS) 0.42 6. SLV POLITICAL POSTERS 0.48 7. SLV PEOPLE SITTING IN FRONT OF POLITICAL ADVERTISING 0.53 8. MCU (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED MAN SAYING "I think that really the left in Uruguay is mature and it is prepared to lead the government. And if the opposition to the left (i.e. the centre-right) does not mature, (the left) will inevitably be in government." 1.09 9. MCU (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN SAYING "The people think well before they vote and that they don't just vote for tradition or what people tell them to do, that they listen to the candidates and reflect on their different positions. I don't know that they oppose each other, but they're different." 1.28 10. LV/SV NEWS CONFERENCE OF TOP VOTE-GETTER TABARE VAZQUEZ (3 SHOTS) 1.37 11. MCU (Spanish) VAZQUEZ SAYING "The old ways of classical thinking, like communism and Marxism and all those -ism's, the people have really risen above that. It's not the same today as it was in the 70's, when parties tried to scare the public with those themes. It has changed politically with the 21st century to the way we are doing it. If we have to talk about an 'ism', it's 'continuism' of the application of the politics that has given us these results. What we would like to say this morning is that we want to reassure the financial sector, the banking sector, to investors both in our country and in other countries. Our party plans to lead the country with the rules of the game made very clear and precise and with absolute guarantees as to the standards that will be established." 2.22 12. SV MEDIA 2.25 13. MCU (Spanish) VAZQUEZ SAYING "We are going to defend the stability of the country, not just the economic stability but also the social and political stability. We firmly back Mercosur; we think once Mercosur is in force it will allow us to expand our horizons to include other Latin American countries and that will be very favourable in this global community."/LV/SV PRESS CONFERENCE (4 SHOTS) 3.38 14. SV PEOPLE CHEERING VAZQUEZ 3.40 15. MCU VAZQUEZ SHAKING HANDS WITH SUPPORTERS 3.54 (OCTOBER 31, 1999) 16. SV DEMONSTRATION OF SUPPORT FOR JORGE BATLLE 4.00 17. MCU PULL OUT SV JORGE BATLLE GREETING HIS SUPPORTERS 4.13 18. SV SUPPORTERS WAVING FLAGS 4.17 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
- Country: Uruguay
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- Story Text: The candidate winning the most votes in Uruguay's
presidential election hasn't yet won his seat.Opposition
candidate Tabare Vazquez must now face a run-off since he
failed to gain an outright majority of votes in Sunday's
(October 31) balloting.
Centre-left candidate Tabare Vazquez won the most
votes in Uruguay's presidential election on Sunday, raising
the possibility that centre-right parties could lose their
political domination of the country for the first time in 171
years.
With his Popular Front party's platform of social change,
economic revitalisation and job creation, Vazquez took 38.1
percent of the vote with almost 98 percent counted, while
Jorge Batlle, a member of the ruling centre-right Colorado
Party, came in second with 31.4 percent.The low percentages
require that a second round be held to choose which of them
will replace President Julio Sanguinetti on March 1, 2000.
Sanguinetti, like Batlle, is a member of the Colorado
Party which has recently suffered a decline in favour due to a
downturn in the economy and a rise in unemployment.
This is the fourth time the country will elect a president
and Congress since it emerged from a 12-year dictatorship in
1985.
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