Uruguay: internal elections
He 30 June domestic political parties ahead of the national elections were held and whose objective is the nomination of the presidential formula. The first thing we have to take into account the results of the same, they are not mandatory, we can not take them as a trend that will be reflected linearly in national. If we see the results of internal since they were introduced to the latter, the National Party was always the most votes and in any case in national elections party became president. This does not mean that they can draw some conclusions from the same.
On the one hand, the Frente Amplio, although presented with several nominations and including a candidate from the labor movement (Andrade) and that as a slogan was "change in change" failed to halt the loss of votes that has been taking since they are government in these instances. Thus showing that beyond wear, there is growing discontent in the foundations of the ruling party in the 2009 He could mobilize 418415 and now voters, as primary outcomes, only to 255072.
The National Party has increased its number of votes, Nor is it surprising, because it was the most competitive domestic and new elements in Uruguayan politics. The arrival of a billionaire candidate who not only never participated in political life and not even living in the country, with a populist campaign tactics right and applying fake news and personal attacks against his opponents was one of them. This made it more strongly mobilize nationalist voters largely rejected this candidate, that despite having been runner was booed in the act of unity that usually make this party after internal.
The big news in these elections was the party Cabildo Open Manini Rios, former army commander, What did you get 47 thousand votes about. This candidate was in fact created by the Frente Amplio, which he guided its policy on re-legitimize the armed forces, propagandized their help in floods or using them as strikebreakers collecting garbage during the strike of municipal. In addition to not further investigate the trial and punishment of the military for crimes of the past dictatorship. This policy of coexistence with internal military begins to break with the attempt to reform the military case and the facts surrounding the court of honor that end with the removal of the entire staff of the armed forces. This makes the former commander is presented as a defender and savior of the institution and attract a significant amount of votes that were previously scattered among several right-wing parties.
As for the political force that we call vote from the Socialist Rumbo and why we campaigned, Socialist commitment, achieves a very good vote taking into account that it was his first electoral presentation. Product carry out a non-sectarian politics, betting on the left unity, and a very active membership managed position as the second force within the UP, which it is the main confluence of forces to the left of the Frente Amplio. Nevertheless, both the Popular Unity as PT, which it was presented alone, They suffered loss of votes, failing to channel the growing discontent with the ruling party.
This can be explained on one hand by the multiplicity of new parties contesting in this election and contesting those voters, such as the Animalista Party with actions such as chained in Independence Square against the polluting plant upm2 managed to grab the attention of the media. And on the other hand, the performance of the majority force in the UP (26 of March) in recent years the movement "One Uruguay" which brings together entities and entrepreneurs from the field and had a sectarian policy of creating parallel unions to nucleate in the PIT-CNT thereby dividing the ligated union activism.
Federico Martinez
