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Orsi meeting Lula on first trip abroad after electoral win

Uruguay's President-elect Yamandú Orsi is scheduled to meet Friday in Brasilia with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to discuss the future relationship between both countries after the Broad Front's (Frente Amplio - FA) candidate is inaugurated on March 1. Orsi defeated Álvaro Delgado of the ruling Multicolor coalition in the Nov. 24 runoff and chose Brazil as his first destination abroad to launch his administration's diplomatic agenda.

The day after his victory, Lula congratulated Orsi by telephone and confirmed he would be attending the Dec. 5-6 Southern Common Market (Mercosur) Summit in Montevideo. The Brazilian leader also hailed Orsi's win as a victory for all Latin America and the Caribbean. ”Brazil and Uruguay will continue working together in Mercosur (Southern Common Market) and other forums for fair and sustainable development, for peace, and for regional integration,” Lula posted on social media.

With Orsi, Lula, and Bolivia's Luis Arce Catacora, Mercosur will have three leftwing-oriented heads of State, against two from the right: Argentina's Javier Milei and Paraguay's Santiago Peña. Uruguay's incumbent Luis Lacalle Pou would also belong to those ranks, so Orsi's win would tip the balance in the other direction.

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Like many of his fellow Latin American leaders, Uruguay’s new president-elect is left-wing. But Yamandu Orsi, who narrowly won a runoff election on Sunday, stands out in at least one way: He has never attacked Israel.

Gustavo Petro in Colombia, Gabriel Boric in Chile, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil are all vehement critics of Israel; some have broken diplomatic ties with Israel over its war in Gaza. Jose “Pepe” Mujica, Uruguay’s former president and Orsi’s mentor, is also a harsh Israel critic.

Orsi, by contrast, expressed admiration for Israel’s multicultural society after visiting last year and reiterated those sentiments this month, shortly before the election, even suggesting that he could self-identify as a Zionist. He says he supports Israel’s right to exist while also backing calls for a Palestinian state.

“On the boulevard you see people of both faiths,” Orsi told an interviewer from the Jewish community in September 2023 in Tel Aviv. “That is what surprises me the most, honestly. There is a part of the reality here that is more about coexistence than the other. So it is possible.”

Orsi was on a trip organized by the Central Israelite Committee of Uruguay and the Latin American Jewish Congress, traveling with officials from those Jewish groups on an itinerary focused on science and innovation. Orsi, then mayor of Uruguay’s Canalones region, also visited major tourist attractions including Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial.

“I am a history teacher and I have taught classes on the Second World War and the impact of the Holocaust,” Orsi said in a second interview upon his return. “The guide showed us and gave us details of aspects that I frankly did not know and that, naturally, shocked me.”

Orsi faced criticism from pro-Palestinian leftists within his coalition, the Broad Front, for visiting Israel in a trip that came just weeks before Hamas attacked on Oct. 7, 2023, launching the ongoing war in Gaza. He also drew some criticism from pro-Israel Uruguayans for a tweet he posted while there that highlighted the income gaps between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza.

“My strategy is dialogue. I can understand that they want to impose vetoes or … a kind of ideological purity of my actions,” Orsi told the interviewer about the left-wing critics. “Clearly, it is not my path. Dialogue and peace, peace and dialogue — I will not give up on that, nor on the freedom to express one’s opinion.”

Orsi’s campaign focused on the environment and the economy, and Israel was not a prominent part of the election discourse. But he discussed Israel at length just before the runoff election on air with a prominent Uruguayan radio personality.

The interviewer, Orlando Petinatti, is Jewish and pro-Israel; his show, “Bad Thoughts,” has aired since 1991 and is the most popular Uruguayan radio program. Orsi signaled that he agreed with Petinatti’s assertion that there is “no apartheid” in Israel, recalling how he watched Arab players on the Israeli team that Uruguay defeated in a game during his trip.

Orsi also said he would call himself a Zionist if the definition is as Petinatti articulated it: “in favor of the Jewish people having a state in the land of Israel.” Orsi added that that would need to come along with provisions granting equal rights to religious minorities.

“I like Zionism ,and also like the Palestinian cause to have a state,” he said. “Having said that, I’m in favor of Israel’s right to exist but I’m not always agreeing with the actions of the Israeli government.”

Uruguay is home to about 15,000 Jews, according to the Latin American Jewish Congress, out of a total population of 3.4 million. (While most live in the capital of Montevideo, there is also a burgeoning Jewish community in the coastal city of Punta del Este.) It was the first South American country to officially recognize the state of Israel and was home to the first Israeli embassy in Latin America, established in 1948, the year of Israel’s founding.

Orsi’s term begins in March and lasts five years. He replaces a center-right politician who represented the only break in the Broad Front’s leadership dating back to 2005.

Uruguay is considered Latin America’s most stable democracy; voting is mandatory and 90% of eligible voters cast ballots in each round of this year’s election. Its neighbor to the west, Argentina, is the largest country in the region with a right-wing president; Javier Milei is vociferously pro-Israel and is reshaping his country’s foreign policy after a period of left-wing leadership, with the goal of bringing Argentina closer to the United States and Israel.

Paraguay, to Argentina’s north, also has a right-wing and pro-Israel president. Santiago Pena, elected last year, is in the process of moving his country’s embassy back to Jerusalem after his predecessor, a liberal, moved it to Tel Aviv, prompting a diplomatic crisis. Pena plans to visit Israel next week to rededicate the Jerusalem embassy.

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Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate, Yamandu Orsi, has became the country’s new President after a tight run-off contest. Mr Orsi’s victory ousts the conservative governing coalition and makes the South American nation the latest to rebuke the incumbent party in a year of landmark elections worldwide. Even as the vote count continued, Alvaro Delgado, the presidential candidate for the centre-right ruling coalition, conceded defeat to his challenger amid muted scenes. In sharp contrast, Mr Orsi told crowds of supporters: “The country of liberty, equality and fraternity has triumphed once again. “I will be the president who calls for national dialogue again and again, who builds a more integrated society and country.” As initial exit polls began showing Mr Orsi, 57, a working-class former history teacher and two-time mayor from Uruguay’s Broad Front coalition, holding a lead over Mr Delgado, cheers rang out across Montevideo’s beaches.

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URUGUAY. AURORA MELONI RACCONTA IL TRIONFO DI YAMANDU' ORSI

di Rodrigo Rivas 20/11/2024 Il candidato della coalizione progressista del Frente Amplio, Yamandú Orsi, ha conquistato la vittoria alle elezioni presidenziali in Uruguay. Aurora Meloni commenta questo successo in diretta da Montevideo. https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/uruguay-aurora-meloni-racconta-il-trionfo-di-yamandu-orsi/ Introduzione di Rodrigo Rivas (intellettuale cileno…

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A selection of news photographs from around the world.Andres Cuenca/ReutersSupporters of Yamandu Orsi celebrate his election as president of Uruguay. Orise, a left-wing former history teacher, beat Álvaro Delgado, candidate of the governing conservative coalition, by more than three percentage points in Sunday's run-off.Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesThe National Thanksgiving Turkeys, Blossom and Peach, were ushered into place for photographers ahead of being pardoned by US President Joe Biden during a ceremony on the south lawn of the White House. Turkey pardons have a history dating back to President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.Jordan Pettitt/PA MediaAcross parts of the UK, heavy rainfall and strong winds brought by Storm Bert led to at least five deaths, while roads and rail networks faced major disruption. Here flooded caravans are seen at Billing Aquadrome Holiday Park near Northampton.Issei Kato/ReutersIn Tokyo, Japan's capital city, families enjoyed the sunny weather at Showa Kinen Park under the yellow leaves of the ginkgo trees. The ginkgo can be found in parks and gardens across the world, but is on the brink of extinction in the wild.Joe Giddens/PA MediaAs Christmas approaches, winter light trails like this one in the Royal Park at Sandringham House, Norfolk, are open to the public.Sarah Meyssonnier/ReutersFive and a half years after the devastating fire of 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke in Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral after its extensive refurbishment. He said the building's official reopening - on 7 December - will be a "shock of hope".Simon Maina/AFPA game of football takes place on a makeshift field in Windhoek, Namibia.AFPTeddy bears are prepared for export on a production line at a toy factory in Lianyungang, China. US President-elect Donald Trump has said he will add an extra 10% tax on goods coming from China.Billy Tompkins/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/ShutterstockNew York is set to become the first city in the US to implement a congestion charge. Governor Kathy Hochul announced pricing on certain roads would begin on 5 January to "unclog our streets, reduce pollution and deliver better public transit".Kim Hong-Ji/ReutersSeoul, the South Korean capital, recorded its heaviest November snowfall since records began in 1907.

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A selection of news photographs from around the world.Andres Cuenca/ReutersSupporters of Yamandu Orsi celebrate his election as president of Uruguay. Orise, a left-wing former history teacher, beat Álvaro Delgado, candidate of the governing conservative coalition, by more than three percentage points in Sunday's run-off.Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesThe National Thanksgiving Turkeys, Blossom and Peach, were ushered into place for photographers ahead of being pardoned by US President Joe Biden during a ceremony on the south lawn of the White House. Turkey pardons have a history dating back to President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.Jordan Pettitt/PA MediaAcross parts of the UK, heavy rainfall and strong winds brought by Storm Bert led to at least five deaths, while roads and rail networks faced major disruption. Here flooded caravans are seen at Billing Aquadrome Holiday Park near Northampton.Issei Kato/ReutersIn Tokyo, Japan's capital city, families enjoyed the sunny weather at Showa Kinen Park under the yellow leaves of the ginkgo trees. The ginkgo can be found in parks and gardens across the world, but is on the brink of extinction in the wild.Joe Giddens/PA MediaAs Christmas approaches, winter light trails like this one in the Royal Park at Sandringham House, Norfolk, are open to the public.Sarah Meyssonnier/ReutersFive and a half years after the devastating fire of 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke in Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral after its extensive refurbishment. He said the building's official reopening - on 7 December - will be a "shock of hope".Simon Maina/AFPA game of football takes place on a makeshift field in Windhoek, Namibia.AFPTeddy bears are prepared for export on a production line at a toy factory in Lianyungang, China. US President-elect Donald Trump has said he will add an extra 10% tax on goods coming from China.Billy Tompkins/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/ShutterstockNew York is set to become the first city in the US to implement a congestion charge. Governor Kathy Hochul announced pricing on certain roads would begin on 5 January to "unclog our streets, reduce pollution and deliver better public transit".Kim Hong-Ji/ReutersSeoul, the South Korean capital, recorded its heaviest November snowfall since records began in 1907.

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Uruguay: Center-left candidate wins Presidential election – DW – 11/25/2024

The candidate for the ruling center-right government, Alvaro Delgado, conceded defeat to his left-wing rival Yamandu Orsi

Again - 2024 was not the year not of left -v- right - buy rather incumbent -v- challenger

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Brazil Views Orsi in Uruguay as a Strategic Ally Against Milei's Regional Ideology

Lulas government celebrates the victory of Pepe Mujicas heir

It remains to be seen to what extent this ideological alignment will translate into practical actions. However, in Brasília, the federal capital, Yamandú Orsi’s victory in Uruguay was highly celebrated.

According to one of Lula’s government insiders, this changes the dynamics and will enable much closer political dialogue. Another insider highlighted that it represents greater alignment and a renewed sense of purpose in South America.

Government insiders expect Yamandú Orsi to have Mujica, who governed from 2010 to 2015 and whom Orsi calls his "maestro" (teacher), as a key advisor. Specifically, they mention the prospect of joint action within Mercosur.

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Lula parabeniza presidente eleito do Uruguai

O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva parabenizou o presidente eleito do Uruguai, Yamandu Orsi (foto), pela vitória nas urnas no pleito desse domingo (24). O candidato da coligação de esquerda Frente Ampla venceu o segundo turno das eleições presidenciais em uma vitória que marca a volta ao poder do partido liderado pelo ex-presidente uruguaio José Mujica. “Quero congratular o povo uruguaio pela…

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Yamandú Orsi quiere ser reelecto en la Intendencia de Canelones

Entrevista en La Mañana http://www.espectador.tv/videos/la-manana-de-el-espectador/349878/entrevista-en-la-manana/yamandu-orsi-quiere-ser-reelecto-en-la-intendencia-de-canelones/video-resumen?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr