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35-717: According to "Cifra", a consultancy firm, in October 2019, 24% of its voters were previously from the Broad Front , 14% from the Colorado Party and 10% from the National Party . Gonzalo Ferreira Sienra, one of the children of Wilson Ferreira Aldunate , is a member of Cabildo Abierto. This political group applied to the Electoral Court in early 2019 to request its registration as a party, to compete in

70-595: A two-round system for the 1999 elections . Vázquez led the field in the first round but lost the runoff to the Colorados' Jorge Batlle after the two traditional parties set aside their long rivalry to defeat him. At the same time, the Broad Front became the largest party in the legislature. The party's victorious 2004 campaign was the first instance of a left-leaning party gaining the majority in Uruguay. Two of

105-459: A place to launder money from drug and other illegal businesses. By the turn of the century, half the nation had to survive in the informal economy. In 2002, the economic crisis of Brazil and Argentina spread to Uruguay, which crashed as a result of lacking productive power. In August of that year, the nation received 1.5 billion US dollars from the IMF to try and help with the crisis. This was the state of

140-567: A position he used to continue to advertising Uruguay as a safe place for foreign investment. The Broad Front has supported the re-election of Tabaré Vazquez in the 2014 election, which Vazquez won with 56,63% at the second turn, defeating National Party 's candidate Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou . During its second mandate, Vazquez faced strong criticism from the opposition because of its refusal to cut political ties with Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro , despite allegations of violations of human rights. The Broad Front supported Daniel Martinez for

175-406: A seamstress. Orsi is of paternal Italian and maternal Spanish descent. Raised in a rural area between the towns of Santa Rosa and San Antonio , the family struggled financially during Orsi's adolescence years and, for a time, lived in a house without electricity. At the age of five, he moved to the city of Canelones due to his father's spine disease, which prevented him from working in

210-686: The Canelones Department from 2015 to February 2020, and from November 2020 to 2024. A graduate from the Artigas Teachers Institute in 1991 as a history teacher, he taught in different liceos (secondary schools) in the Canelones, Florida , and Maldonado departments. He began to be a political militant during his adolescence, being part of the Vertiente Artiguista until 1990, when he joined

245-504: The Movement of Popular Participation (MPP) that had been founded the previous year. In 2015, he was elected Intendant of Canelones, and in 2020, he was re-elected in the position. Yamandú Ramón Antonio Orsi Martínez was born in the Canelones Department on 13 June 1967, the second child, the first being his older sister, María del Luján, and only son of Pablo "Bebe" Orsi (1933–2018), a rural laborer and Carmen "Beba" Martínez (died 2023),

280-591: The National Party (PN), Colorado Party (PN), Independent Party (PI) and the Party of the People (PG). Cabildo Abierto has shown an emphasis on economic interventionism , nationalism, public security and social conservatism. This sets them apart from traditional Uruguayan centre and right-wing parties like the Colorado and National parties, more involved in economic liberalism . Their presidential candidate

315-479: The municipal election of that year, he was re-elected in office. After the Broad Front 's electoral defeat in the 2019 general election , Orsi began to be seen as a contender for the 2024 presidential primaries . On 19 March 2023, the MPP officially announced its support for his candidacy. He also received the support of the Vertiente Artiguista and other leftist sectors of the party. On 9 December 2023, during

350-400: The presidential primaries of that year . The request was approved on March 10, after the acceptance of some 3,000 signatures submitted by citizens. The current name refers to the old town hall meetings of the colonial era, which in modern usage has been transferred to holding open meetings in order to make decisions. It is chaired by lawyer and notary Guillermo Domenech , a former member of

385-518: The 2019 general election. Martinez arrived first at the first turn but was defeated in the run-off by Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou of the National Party (also endorsed by Colorado Party and Open Cabildo ). For the first time in 15 years, the Broad Front was defeated at the polls. The party also lost its majority and in the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate , while remaining the largest party in

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420-660: The Broad Front Congress, Orsi's candidacy was made official, as well as that of Carolina Cosse , Mario Bergara and Andrés Lima . Orsi was the Broad Front's candidate for president in the 2024 Uruguayan general election . He emerged with a plurality of 43.2-44 percent in the first round on 27 October and faced Álvaro Delgado of the Coalición Multicolor in the runoff on 24 November, which Orsi won. Orsi has already announced Gabriel Oddone as his future minister of economics and finance. Orsi

455-681: The General Assembly. In its history, despite attracting political factions from other parties over time, the Broad Front has also suffered some splits as well: Broad Front consists primarily of progressive political parties, being defined as Artiguist , popular , democratic , anti- oligarchy , anti-imperialist , anti-racist , and anti- patriarchy . In economics, tends to follow social-democratic or even democratic socialist policies, with expanded social programs. It has major internal factions characterized as social-liberal , Marxist , communist , and eco-socialist . However, not all

490-673: The National Party who served as a Notary of the President's Office from 1990 to 2019. Manini Ríos's wife, Irene Moreira , who also belonged to the National Party, resigned from it and joined Cabildo Abierto. In the June 2019 presidential primaries, Cabildo Abierto had had more than 40,000 votes across the country, making it the fourth Uruguayan political force. The departments with the most votes for this party were Rivera , Cerro Largo and Artigas . In mid-August, Manini Ríos confirmed

525-736: The Republic , however, he dropped out after a month. Subsequently, he enrolled at the Artigas Teachers Institute in Montevideo to study for a teaching post in History in secondary education, graduating in 1991. A member of the National Directorate of the MPP, Orsi has been part of the departmental executive commission of the Broad Front since July 2005. He served as Secretary General of the Municipality of Canelones during

560-533: The country's social and economic drift under previous administrations. Broad Front (Uruguay) The Broad Front ( Spanish : Frente Amplio , FA ) is a left-wing political coalition in Uruguay . In 2025 it will be the ruling party of Uruguay, having previously ruled from 2005 to 2020 and has produced three presidents : Tabaré Vázquez (2005–2010; 2015–2020), José Mujica (2010–2015) and Yamandú Orsi (assuming office in 2025). Since 1999, it has been

595-532: The economic development was the new Minister of Economics and Finance, Danilo Astori , who worked to create a good relationship with the IMF and obtained the foreign investment, needed to kick start a paper pulp industry. Economic reform was also highlighted by a change in the immigration policy of the US president and increased beef exports to the European Union. Since gaining power, the party has maintained

630-476: The fields. The family set up a grocery store there, where Orsi began his studies at Primary School No. 110 and his secondary studies at the Liceo Tomás Berreta . Raised in a Roman Catholic family, he was an altar boy in the neighborhood chapel. In his adolescence, he practiced folk dance, and at the age of fifteen, he won a contest to be part of a municipal cast, which he integrated until he

665-478: The front, and the coalition took the name of the larger force, Frente Amplio . Previously, EP and later NM had been allied with FA but organizationally separate structures. The alliance is formed by: Starting with the election of Luis Alberto Lacalle of the National Party in 1989, economic reform designed to quickly modernize the country began, which led to a devaluing of the peso and laws protecting banking secrecy. This secrecy led to Uruguayan banks becoming

700-461: The future success of the party is the US$ 100 million anti-poverty program that Vazquez signed early in his career, which helped to ensure the support of the lower class in future elections. Uruguay was in need of economic reform when Vazquez stepped into power in 2005, as it was struggling to recover from the crisis of 2002 with a third of the country still below the poverty line. An important aspect of

735-484: The largest party in Uruguay's General Assembly . Frente Amplio was founded as a coalition of more than a dozen fractured leftist parties and movements in 1971. The first president of the front and its first candidate for the presidency of the country was General Liber Seregni . The front was declared illegal during the 1973 military coup d'état and emerged again in 1984 when democracy was restored in Uruguay. In 1994 Progressive Encounter ( Encuentro Progresista )

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770-640: The major reasons the party took power in 2004 was that there was a substantial movement towards more moderate policies and that their support of an increased welfare state created a bond with working-class people tired of the neo-liberalist practices of the end of the twentieth century. When Tabaré Vázquez first took the position of President with a Broad Front majority in the Uruguayan congress, he quickly moved to strengthen diplomatic relations with other Latin American countries, including Cuba. Important to

805-469: The nation when the Broad Front began campaigning for the 2004 election. The Broad Front firmly established itself as the country's third major political force at the 1994 elections . Its presidential candidate, Tabaré Vázquez , who replaced longtime leader Seregni as the party's standardbearer, finished with the most votes of any individual candidate. However, under the Ley de Lemas system then in use, Vázquez

840-505: The parties in the Broad Front lean left, indeed some minor factions are more fiscally or socially conservative . Uruguay Assembly of Danilo Astori and New Space of Rafael Michelini can be considered centrist parties, besides Astori has followed fiscally conservative policies as finance minister, whereas the Christian Democratic Party is vocally anti-abortion . In 2004 the first internal elections for EP-FA-NM

875-483: The party with the most votes, according to the Ley de Lemas system. He took office on 9 July 2015. In October 2019, facing the second round of the general election , Orsi was appointed campaign manager for Broad Front nominee Daniel Martínez Villamil . On 7 February 2020, he resigned from the position of Intendant of Canelones, being succeeded by Tabaré Costa. However, he launched his campaign for re-election, and in

910-476: The party's president, Guillermo Domenech, as his running mate for the general election . In the general election, Open Cabildo obtained 268,736 votes (11.46%) and won three seats in the Senate and 11 in the Chamber of Representatives . In the face of the second round (ballotage), Open Cabildo was part of the Coalición Multicolor , which supported Luis Lacalle Pou and which was also composed of

945-438: The second consecutive Broad Front majority in the federal government. As noted above, Vazquez vetoed a bill to decriminalize abortion in 2008 but the party as a whole was more supportive of the legalization. Support for legal abortions was universal within the party by 2012, when all party senators voted in favor of a new bill that decriminalized the procedure within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. In April 2013 same-sex marriage

980-424: The support of the electorate, as analysis of the 2009 election has led to some conclusions that the trust in the stable government played a large part in keeping the Broad Front in power. After the 2009 election, former guerrilla José Mujica became president and during his time in power, a number of leftist social policies were passed. The legalization of abortion, same-sex marriage, and marijuana all occurred under

1015-551: The two terms of government of Intendant Marcos Carámbula. In early March 2015, he resigned to run for Intendant. His candidacy was supported by various sectors of the Broad Front , such as the MPP, the Communist Party , the Vertiente Artiguista , and Casa Grande. In the 2015 election , he was elected Intendant of the Canelones Department with 37% of the vote, being the candidate with the most votes from

1050-513: Was Guido Manini Ríos , an army general under President Tabaré Vázquez that opposed left-wing judicial activism aimed at prosecuting members of the armed forces on human rights charges. Progressive international news outlets such as El País from Madrid analyse this phenomenon as a sign of the rise of the populist right in the mold of Donald Trump and Brexit in a traditionally centrist country. Polling analysis does not bear this out, however, and many followers are simply disenchanted with

1085-688: Was 26. In turn, in his teens he became politically active, militating in the Vertiente Artiguista until 1990, when he joined the Movement of Popular Participation . He began by participating in a collection of signatures for the 1989 amnesty referendum on the Law on the Expiration of the Punitive Claims of the State . In 1986, he began a degree in international relations at the University of

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1120-525: Was denied the presidency because the Broad Front finished with the third-most votes of any party, behind the Colorados and Blancos. At the time, the highest-finishing candidate of the party winning the most votes was elected president. At the same time, the Broad Front surged to 31 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and nine seats in the Senate. The Ley de Lemas was scrapped for presidential elections in favor of

1155-519: Was formed by several minor independent factions and the Frente Amplio. EP and FA started contesting elections jointly under the name Encuentro Progresista - Frente Amplio . Later another force, Nuevo Espacio , became linked to the front. Thus it started contesting elections as Encuentro Progresista - Frente Amplio - Nueva Mayoria . In 2005 member organizations of Progressive Encounter and New Majority (essentially Nuevo Espacio) merged into

1190-476: Was held. Previously elections had only been held within FA. Yamand%C3%BA Orsi Yamandú Ramón Antonio Orsi Martínez (born 13 June 1967) is a Uruguayan politician and teacher who is the president-elect of Uruguay after winning the 2024 general election . He is a member of the left-wing Movement of Popular Participation , a constituent party of the Broad Front . He served as the 22nd and 24th intendant of

1225-644: Was passed, supported by the party who took a hard-line stance against the role of the church in legislation on the matter. The most recent of major changes under the Mujica presidency is the legalization of marijuana , which was signed in December 2013. A point of consideration for this event is that legalization was not supported by the general population, but the Broad Front still chose to act in favor of it. The economy continued to grow with Astori transitioning from Minister of Economics and Finance to Vice President ,

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