Gone is the five-year wait for the Frente Amplio (FA) to regain the power it held from 2005 to 2020, with two interspersed presidencies of Tabaré Vázquez and the mandate of José Mujica.

Also in the past was the government of Luis Lacalle Pou, who from the FA is accused of having ruled for the “golden mesh”, in the misunderstanding that those at the top of the pyramid would spread the distribution of national wealth to the grassroots.

Both the Front and the PIT-CNT trade union center agree that in the last five years inequality, poverty and insecurity have increased.

Orsi defined three fundamental pillars that will mark the purposes of his administration: economic growth, equity and citizen security.

He will be accompanied by a ministerial cabinet that he described as balanced within the broad political spectrum of the FA.

The Frente Amplio aims to celebrate democracy and citizen participation on the 40th anniversary of the return to institutionality in Uruguay, after years of dictatorship.

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