Weekly Report - 07 March 2024 (WR-24-09)

Uruguay’s President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou delivered his final state-of-the-nation report to congress on 2 March. This time next year it will be the job of his successor. It is not clear who that will be but in the days after his address, the country began to move on to an electoral footing. Early opinion polls point towards a likely eventual showdown between Álvaro Delgado of Lacalle Pou’s centre-right Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos) and Yamandú Orsi of the left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) opposition coalition in October’s presidential elections, but they will first need to navigate primary elections in June.

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