By limonta on Skatehive
The “modern left” triumphs in Uruguay As we had projected in our Sunday report, center-left candidate Yamandú Orsi won the presidency of Uruguay in the final electoral round against the ruling party's representative Álvaro Delgado. Orsi's victory would constitute the confirmation of a general trend of the electorate elsewhere to remove incumbent political forces from power, even when their governmental management has been relatively well received, as in the case of the administration of outgoing president Luis Lacalle, which in any case faced several corruption scandals and could not stop a pattern of slow economic growth. “With sadness, but without guilt, we can congratulate the winner,” Delgado said accepting his defeat before his supporters. “But it's one thing to lose the elections and another to be defeated. We are not defeated,” he harangued. “The country of liberty, equality, and fraternity has triumphed once again,” the President-elect told instead to a cheering crowd. “I will