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Ex-guerrilla faces close run-off in Uruguay election
Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:36pm EDT
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MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Former leftist guerrilla leader Jose Mujica faces a tight run-off in Uruguay's presidential election even though results on Monday showed he had a strong advantage in the first round of voting.
Mujica, a 74-year-old senator who was jailed during Uruguay's 1973-85 military dictatorship, won 47.5 percent of the vote on Sunday, well ahead of former center-right president Luis Lacalle, who had 28.5 percent support.
But Mujica fell short of the 50 percent he needed to avoid a second round, and the two men go to a run-off on November 29.
Another rightist candidate, Pedro Bordaberry, finished third on Sunday with 16.7 percent and said he will throw his support behind Lacalle in the second round.
One recent poll showed Mujica narrowly winning any run-off, but the blunt-talking senator's militant past and sharp tongue have some Uruguayans worried that he could turn the country sharply to the left.
"It's going to be a neck-and-neck finish," said Teresa Herrera, an Uruguayan political analyst.
Mujica says he has left behind his radical past and will continue the market-friendly policies of outgoing President Tabare Vazquez, Uruguay's first ever leftist leader, while funding social programs such as computers for schools.
The popular Vazquez, from the same Broad Front coalition as Mujica, has overseen rapid economic growth and attracted heavy foreign investment in the dairy and forestry industries since taking power five years ago.
Mujica was among the leading figures of the Tupamaros urban guerrilla movement during the 1960s and early '70s, which carried out political kidnappings and bank robberies before a military dictatorship took hold.
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Lacalle, a 68-year-old conservative lawyer, has made a surprise comeback since his 1990-1995 presidential term ended with corruption accusations involving several top aides.
He favors smaller government and promises to fight crime, but he is also seen as tied to the country's political elite.
The two candidates offer dramatically different political styles. If Lacalle can pull in the votes that went to Bordaberry on Sunday, the run-off will rest on whether Mujica or his rival can win over undecided voters.
While some countries in Latin America have turned sharply left in recent years, Uruguay's leftist leadership has aligned itself with business-friendly moderates such as Brazil and Chile.
Hoping to win over the business community and address concerns over his past, Mujica turned to Vazquez's former economy minister as his vice-presidential running mate. Continued...
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