Uruguay | Presidential candidates cast votes on runoff election day - video Dailymotion

*Also, current president Luis Lacalle Pou declares presidential transition begins on election day. teleSUR

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00:00We are sitting in Uruguay, where on Sunday the presidential candidates cast their ballots.

00:05Past 10 a.m. local time, the candidate for the vote from Yamondú Orsi exercised his

00:09right to vote at the World University of Uruguay in the city of Canelones, where he taught

00:14history.

00:15Orsi called on Uruguayans to keep up hope and the political struggle, and underscored

00:20the importance of taking part in this process.

00:23Meanwhile, national party candidate Álvaro Delgado went to polling stations at the Club

00:27Banco República at the capital Montevideo, where he spoke of the high voter return.

00:33I turn out my pardon in comparison to the previous polls.

00:44In this context, current Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle-Po declared after his casting

00:49of vote that the presidential transition begins tonight.

00:56It is a special moment, firstly, for the country, starting tonight.

01:09Uruguay has a president-elect and that is the beginning of a transition.

01:16So naturally, that is the beginning of a kind of decision-sharing.

01:22Actually today we are voting on two different projects, you know more or less.

01:26And I am not going to go into political issues, because it does not correspond to me.

01:30To be president-elect is one thing, the transition that is going to take place and the measures

01:35that are going to be taken.