2025 Uruguayan municipal elections

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2025 Uruguayan municipal elections
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  2020 11 May 20252030 

Uruguay will be holding local government elections on 11 May, 2025, to elect the intendente and departmental councils of the 19 departments (first-lever administrative divisions of Uruguay) as well as 127 local governments. Across the country, 19 intendants, 589 ediles, 127 mayors and 508 local councilors will be elected. [1]

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Background

In the municipal elections of September 2020, the Partido Nacional had won 15 departments, the Partido Colorado 1 departments, and the Frente Amplio 3 departments.

Canelones

Canelones has been held by the Broad Front coalition since 2005. Yamandú Orsi has been elected President, so other candidates are coming up. Francisco Legnani has already been proposed. [2]

Montevideo

There will be an ad-hoc party, Republican Coalition, made up of politicians from the Blanco, Colorado, Independiente and Cabildo Abierto parties. Martín Lema has already been proposed as candidate. [3]

See also

References

  1. "Constitución de la República Oriental del Uruguay". www.impo.com.uy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  2. "Departamento por departamento: qué candidatos ya están confirmados y cuáles se perfilan para las elecciones de mayo". El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-01-03.
  3. ""No podemos acostumbrarnos a vivir entre la mugre": blancos aprobaron a Lema como candidato a intendente por la coalición". El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-23.