Vazquez set to win primary for Uruguay presidential nomination


  • World
  • Monday, 02 Jun 2014

Former Uruguayan President and current internal candidate for the Frente Amplio (broad front) party Tabare Vazquez casts his vote in a polling station in Montevideo, June 1, 2014. REUTERS/Andres Stapff

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Tabare Vazquez looked set to win his party's primary by a landslide on Sunday, clearing the way for him to run again to be president of Uruguay, the country he led between 2005 and 2010.

With 31 percent of votes counted, Vazquez, a doctor by profession, had received about 82 percent of the votes cast to choose the candidate for the left-wing Frente Amplio bloc, election authorities said.

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