the Amplio Frente grows, but the "Eastern Bolsonaro" jeopardizes its permanence in power

The Argentine singer Miss Bolivia He took the microphone in the Uruguayan city of Minas and dedicated his song "To all milicos and to all whore Police officers who abuse power. " The feminist referent also sought to take a stand on the October 27 constitutional plebiscite. On that day, the Uruguayans will be able to choose the next head of State and validate or not the "Live without fear" campaign, which aims to devote strict security policies in the Magna Carta. The referents of this initiative, the leaders of the most conservative wing of the national party, strongly criticized the creator of the hit "Take the stick". "The anger that made me take this woman you can not imagine. I got up and left. Being Argentinian and coming to meddle with internal problems, "said the Mayor Adriana Peña

This unusual counterpoint between a sector of the Uruguayan political class and an artist from another country is a passage compatible with an unusual election campaign in Uruguay, which will go to the polls on October 27. Last Monday the caravan of Daniel Martinez, presidential candidate of Frente Amplio, coincided in the streets of the city of Durazno with a proselytizing raid of his main rival, Luis Lacalle Pou of the national party. The bunkers of both parties allowed the acts to circulate on different ways; however, this closeness emboldened the former mayor of Montevideo and the son of the former white president raise the temperature of his last discursive crosses.

Martinez accuses Lacalle Pou of hiding his future ministers and therefore to grind his government program: "Lacalle Pou began the ban before, he gives no details "The former president of the oil company ANCAP was also stung. On the other hand, the candidate of the National Party insisted on what was explained by his latest spots where whites accused the Broad Front of not having obtained the promised foreign investments: "The facts confirm that the Front misses the word."

It is not usual to hear in the neighboring country the chicano tone in the festive atmosphere; even in a scenario of ballot boxes and election proclamations. Uruguay has made restraint and cordiality a mark of its political system. However, the balance of the compulsa (for the first time could lose progressivism since it governs the Broad Front) and the emergence of new party actors – for example, the ultranationalist Cabildo Open-They make the next election as special as it is uncertain.

The latest fieldwork of renowned Uruguayan consultant Radar confirms the above-mentioned scenario. In simple terms, this survey draws a half-smile on the broad front: for the first time in this campaign, the progressive coalition intends to vote more than the unified number of its historical rivals, the parts white and colored. This account is required because the Coloranco Party – that is what the Uruguayan writer called Eduardo Galeano the unspoken Conservative unit – always unites behind the most voted candidate in the voting instance. However, Radar also anticipates that the outsider of the election, the general Guido Manini Ríos, I could make a historic choice. This emergence makes the opposition sum heavier against a hypothetical second-round alliance.

"The Wide Front Candidate (FA), Daniel Martínez, he has a 41% voting intention, followed by Luis Lacalle Pou, of the National Party, with 22.6%; a difference of 18.4%. In comparison with the last job, both went up, but Martinez did more than Lacalle Pou, so the distance between them went from 17.7% to 18.4%. Ernesto Talvi, Colorado party candidate, with 16% intention to vote, a fall of six tenths from the previous poll. He follows Guido Manini Ríos, from Cabildo Open, which also dropped 12% to 11.5% ", summarizes the portal The daily what scrutinized by the firm Radar.

Who is Guido Manini Ríos? Is the expression of the Bolsonaro phenomenon on the other side of the river? Discover transferred these questions to the famous Uruguayan political scientist Gerardo Caetano, who chairs the FLACSO High Council at the continental level. "The candidacy of (Guido) Manini Ríos is a serious problem. At the beginning of this year, he was commander of the product of the army of a wrong ministerial leadership, promoted by the late former guerrilla leader Huidobro, favorable to reconciliation with the nationalist sectors of the armed forces . It was finally removed but the Front ended up creating a monster. Not only is he nostalgic of the dictatorship, but his rhetoric goes beyond institutional and democratic frameworks. Today he leads an extreme right-wing party to which all polls give him an interesting stream of voices. Manini Ríos could have three senators and ten deputies, this will involve a legislative hurdle for the Frente Amplio in case it comes back to being a government in elections that will prove very competitive for the ruling party, "warns Caetano.