Uruguay: Tabare Vazquez Wins The Most Votes In The First Round Of Presidential Election
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Uruguay: Tabare Vazquez Wins The Most Votes In The First Round Of Presidential Election
- Title: Uruguay: Tabare Vazquez Wins The Most Votes In The First Round Of Presidential Election
- Date: 31st October 1999
- Summary: Centre-left candidate Tabare Vazquez won the most votes in the first round of Uruguay's presidential election on October 31, 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. 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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- Location: URUGUAY MONTEVIDEO STREET SCENES
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