The presidential candidate of the conservative coalition that has governed Uruguay for the past five years conceded defeat on Sunday after a close run-off election.

The presidential candidate of the conservative coalition that has governed Uruguay for the past five years conceded defeat on Sunday after a close run-off election even as the vote count continued. Alvaro Delgado,

Álvaro Delgado, the centre-right government’s candidate, told his supporters at his campaign headquarters that “with sadness, but without guilt, we can congratulate the winner,” referring to left-wing challenger Yamandú Orsi. Electoral officials ...

Left-wing candidate Yamandu Orsi was projected to win Uruguay's presidential election, media reported Sunday, in a rebuke by voters of five years of conservative rule.

Uruguay’s conservative governing party concedes hard-fought presidential runoff to left-wing challenger.

A win for Orsi would make the small South American nation the latest country to rebuke an incumbent party in this landmark election year where voters frustrated with post-pandemic economic malaise have punished ruling parties around the world,

Uruguayans have voted in the second round of the country’s presidential election, with the conservative governing party and the left-leaning coalition locked in a close runoff following level-headed c