MONTEVIDEO: Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou recognised the opposition candidate Yamandu Orsi as president-elect, who will succeed him in the 2025-2030 period after Orsi won the second round of the presidential elections against Alvaro Delgado.
On Sunday, Delgado of the National Party also recognised Orsi of the left-wing opposition coalition the Broad Front as president-elect, reports Xinhua news agency.
"I want to send from here, with all this coalition government, with all these actors of the coalition, a big hug and a greeting to Yamandu Orsi and to the Broad Front, " Delgado said in his speech alongside the leaders of the ruling coalition in the capital Montevideo.
"We can congratulate the winner with sadness, but without a guilt complex, we must respect the sovereign decision above all things, " he added.
President Lacalle Pou said on X that he called Orsi "to congratulate him as president-elect of our country."