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Veronica Psetizki
Montevideo
Less than two hours of the close of polling stations, long queues are a constant in many parts of the country. "We had no rest," says the chairman of the board at a school in the capital, while attending a voter and bites an apple mid-afternoon.
Minister of the Electoral Court, Edgardo Martinez Zimarioff, said the average voter has been higher than in previous elections. At 16.30 hours between 76 and 88% of those eligible to vote have already voted. In a typically sunny spring Sunday, the Uruguayans took to the streets with festive cheer. Many pedestrians carry flags on their backs, hundreds of cars drive waving flags of different parties and some with the national flag.
Uncertainty about the result holds, but pollsters said they will start to provide preliminary results an hour after the close of voting at 20.30 local time.
is not certain that this Sunday the new president is elected, and that this one of the candidates would have to get over 50% of the total votes.
runoff "?
Surveys indicate that Jose" Pepe "Mujica, candidate of the ruling leftist coalition Frente Amplio (FA) is who has a better chance of winning office with an intention to vote around 45%. It is followed by Luis Alberto Lacalle, the candidate of the Partido Nacional (PN), the center-to 30%. As the number of undecided voters remained high until the last moment, with around 7%, analysts of public opinion does not rule out a victory on Sunday Mujica.
If unsuccessful, the two leading candidates will face a runoff on Nov. 29.
what if it is defined today is the composition of the new Parliament. Along with the election of president and vice president, citizens choose 30 senators and 99 representatives comprising both houses for the period of five years beginning in February 2010.
Five parties compete for these positions: the FA and NP, we still intend to vote the Colorado Party (12%), the Independent Party (3%) and NPC (0 , 5%).
Suffrage in Uruguay is compulsory and those who do vote are likely to be punished, unless health reasons therefor or have been demonstrating outside the country.
decisions
So far there is no possibility of voting abroad, and this is precisely one of the topics on which the Uruguayans also be asked to vote on election day on Sunday. And is that along with national elections, citizens voted in two plebiscites.
One seeks to allow the vote epistolary Uruguayans living abroad the country. The other, seeking to annul the amnesty law, passed in 1986 and endorsed in a referendum in 1989, which prevents the military and police personnel accused of committing human rights abuses during the de facto government (1973-1985) are brought to justice.
Each private room will be ready to vote on all political parties and two ballots bearing the inscription "Vote for Yes."
Those who want to agitate for the vote of the compatriots abroad should include on the ballot in white and those who want annul the amnesty law should put the pink. For each of these referendums are approved, they must also exceed 50% of the votes cast.
Thousands of citizens living in countries of the region, mainly in Argentina, have been coming to Uruguay from Friday to participate in the elections. An estimated 23,000 people have arrived by boat from Buenos Aires and at least about 15,000 enter by land.
Buquebús The shipping company sold over 18,000 tickets at a promotional price for Uruguayan who came to vote from the capital of Argentina.
As activists in the border city of Gualeguaychu, Argentina, decided not to allow the passage of the population residing in that country who would pay, those who chose to cross the Rio Uruguay with his car or bus had to use other bridges, in many cases extending its way into hundreds of kilometers.
The activists, who for nearly three years remain locked the bridge linking Gualeguaychú with Fray Bentos Uruguay to protest the installation of the Botnia paper were the target of criticism from Uruguayan citizens.
They complained about the decision not to allow themselves access and have missed a few days ago the Argentines who traveled to attend the match between Argentina and Uruguay in a World Cup soccer 2010.
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