*Citizens express concern about security and mobility issues
*Mario Bergara of the Left-wing could be the next governor of the capital city
*Citizens return to the polls to elect governors and mayors this May 11
*Mario Bergara of the Left-wing could be the next governor of the capital city
*Citizens return to the polls to elect governors and mayors this May 11
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00:00Next Sunday, May 11th, Uruguayans returned to the polls to elect 19 governors and 136 mayors of the country.
00:08Let's learn about some relevant aspects of these local elections in the following report by our correspondent in Uruguay, Mateo Grille.
00:19Just two months ago, Yemen Dorsey took office as the new president of Uruguay.
00:24With the echoes of that day still fresh in the air, Uruguayans returned to the polls this Sunday to elect governors and mayors.
00:33It is an important election because it defines two levels of government, the departmental and the municipal, especially the departmental is relevant from the political point of view, how the map of the departmental in tendencies will look like, where there are some expectations and a traditional behavior.
00:54In the framework of a campaign marked by a notorious decrease in citizen participation, the candidates have toured departments, cities, towns, and streets trying to transmit a message that focuses on territorial, management, and cleanliness.
01:12In Montevideo, the opposition candidates who two months ago governed the country are demanding immediate solutions, and are presenting themselves as the change.
01:22But in the capital, the ruling broad front has been winning uninterruptedly for 35 years, and is sure to win again.
01:30Despite this, there are issues such as security, cleanliness, transportation, and mobility that concern citizens.
01:38Cleanliness is an issue that is in the whole country, it is the first problem we have.
01:47I think we have to think about it, and well, we believe that Montevideo has changed a lot, there is no doubt that there is always something to do, but I think that the broad front has shown that during these 35 years it has governed quite well.
02:02I believe that any of the three candidates offer very good proposals on the garbage issue, but there is also the issue of security, the issue of the streets.
02:18I believe that these are the three concerns and all three raise very good issues in this regard.
02:23The left wing closed the electoral campaign a few hours, before the beginning of the electoral ban, in an act, in which its three candidates spoke.
02:38Mario Bergara, current senator, former minister of economy, and former president of the central bank, is leading the polls, and will probably be the next governor of the capital city.
02:49We are going to do things and we are going to have achievements, we are going to have difficulties, but we are going to do it in a way that the Uruguayan people and the people of Montevideo chose 35 years ago, which is a way of ethics, transparency, accountability, of putting people at the center, of putting those who need it most as a priority.
03:12This will continue in Montevideo because the broad front will continue to govern.
03:21Despite the change in the political cycle at the national level, this does not translate mechanically to the departmental level, where the logic is different.
03:36Historically, the national party, whose leader is the now former president Lukaipu, wins in two-thirds of the departments, and in most of the mayoral offices.
03:47If the left makes a good election, it could obtain, besides Montevideo and Canelones, which are the most populated and richest territories in the country, one or two more departments, but we will have to wait until Sunday night.
04:00Thus, the political map for the next five years will be shaped.