Ex-mayor to face senator in Uruguay’s presidential race
Posted July 1, 2019 3:06 pm.
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — A former mayor of Uruguay’s capital will face off against the son of a former president in Uruguay’s presidential election.
Daniel Martínez won Sunday’s nationwide primary for the governing centre-left Broad Front coalition, while Sen. Luis Lacalle Pou easily won the nomination of the centre-right National Party.
The 45-year-old Lacalle had been the party’s candidate in the 2014 election. He’s the son of ex-President Luis Alberto Lacalle, who governed from 1990 to 1995.
Finishing a distant second in the National Party primary was multimillionaire Juan Sartori, a minority shareholder in England’s Sunderland Football Club.
Economist Ernesto Talvi won the primary for the conservative Colorado Party, Uruguay’s third-largest, topping ex-President Julio María Sanguinetti.
Forty-one per cent of the votes came in the National Party contest, versus 24% for the Broad Front.
The Associated Press
