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Mujica, Favorite for Uruguay Elections
MONTEVIDEO - The countdown for the Uruguayan
run-off continues six days ahead of the
elections, with Broad Front (FA) candidate
Jose Mujica in the lead of the surveys.
The leftwing coalition's representative has
an advantage between eight and 10 percent,
compared to the National Party candidate
Luis Alberto Lacalle, according to the
results of the polls by Factum, Equipos
Mori, Cifra, and Interconsult pollsters.
The FA and the so called "tolda blanca" will
hold a run-off to elect the head of State
and the vice president for the 2010-2015
term of office.
The Uruguayan Electoral Court (CE) continues
on Tuesday the preparations for Sunday's
elections, training the officials that will
work at the vote reception tables, and
distribution of vehicles donated by public
authorities will start.
Army trucks will take the ballot boxes to
6,869 enabled circuits in the country, and
they will analyze different variants to
carry out this activity, faced with
impossibility to reach the places for the
voting, due to heavy rains.
This unexpected problem has placed the CE
ministers in a tense situation and they are
assessing additional measures to transfer
the materials, in case that river floods or
road blockages continue, due to weather
inclemencies.
The climate phenomenon has caused floods in
the country's northern region and according
to the most recent report by the National
Emergency System the number of evacuees
reached 1,545 and 54 percent of them were
from the northern Artigas department.
The CE reiterated the publicity ban,
starting at 00:00 hour, local time on Friday
25, and the prohibition of selling alcoholic
beverages and public shows during the
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