Who is Yamandu Orsi, Uruguay's new 'modern left' president?

FILE PHOTO: Frente Amplio's presidential candidate Yamandu Osri speaks during a televised debate with the National Party's presidential candidate Alvaro Delgado (not pictured) ahead of the presidential election run-off, in Montevideo, Uruguay, November 17, 2024. Rodrigo Viera Amaral/Uruguayan Press Association APU/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) -Uruguay's new president-elect Yamandu Orsi, whose political ambitions were galvanized by his experience growing up in a dictatorship, was the pollsters' narrow favorite to win the second round of the South American nation's presidential election on Sunday for the center-left.

The 57-year-old former history teacher and local mayor managed to unseat the ruling conservative bloc. He placed first with 49.8% of votes for the left-leaning Broad Front coalition in November's second round, against Alvaro Delgado of the governing center-right National Party with 45.9%.