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Socialist Party of Uruguay Partido Socialista del Uruguay | |
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| Secretary-General | Gonzalo Civila |
| Founder | Emilio Frugoni |
| Founded | December 12, 1910; 114 years ago (1910-12-12) |
| Headquarters | Soriano 1218,Montevideo,Uruguay |
| Youth wing | Socialist Youth of Uruguay |
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| Political position | Centre-left[3] toleft-wing[4] |
| National affiliation | Broad Front |
| International affiliation | Progressive Alliance |
| Colors | Green |
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| www.ps.org.uy | |
TheSocialist Party of Uruguay (Spanish:Partido Socialista del Uruguay) is acentre-leftpolitical party in Uruguay. Founded in 1910, it is part of theBroad Front political coalition and theProgressive Alliance.[5]
The party was founded in 1910. Its main leader and spokesman was DrEmilio Frugoni, a prominent advocate ofsocialist ideas in Uruguay. Its central organ was the newspaperGerminal, later superseded byEl Sol.
The party was a member of theLabour and Socialist International between 1932 and 1940.[6] In 1951 it joined theSocialist International, which it later left in 1960, and rejoined it in 1999. In 2017 the party once again withdrew from the Socialist International and joined theProgressive Alliance.[7]
In 1971, the party was one of the founding members of theBroad Front, aleft-wing coalition than won the2004 election,2009 election and2014 election, also electing one of its affiliates,Tabaré Vázquez, as president.
It is currently led byGonzalo Civila.
The Broad Front supportedDaniel Martinez, a member of Socialist Party of Uruguay, for the2019 general election. Martinez arrived first at the first turn, but was defeated in the run-off byLuis Alberto Lacalle Pou of theNational Party (also endorsed byColorado Party andOpen Cabildo). For the first time in 15 years, the Broad Front was defeated at the polls. The party also lost its majority and in theChamber of Representatives and theSenate, while remaining the largest party in the General Assembly.[8]
Due to its membership in theBroad Front, the party has endorsed the candidates of other parties on several occasions.Presidential elections in Uruguay are held using atwo-round system, the results of which are displayed below.
| Election | Party candidate | Running mate | Votes | % | Votes | % | Result |
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| 1989 | Liber Seregni | Danilo Astori | 418,403 | 20.35% | Lost N | ||
| 1994 | Tabaré Vázquez | Rodolfo Nin Novoa | 621,226 | 30.6% | LostN | ||
| 1999 | 861,202 | 40.1% | 982,049 | 45.9% | LostN | ||
| 2004 | 1,124,761 | 51.7% | Elected Y | ||||
| 2009 | José Mujica | Danilo Astori | 1,105,262 | 47.96% | 1,197,638 | 54.63% | ElectedY |
| 2014 | Tabaré Vázquez | Raúl Sendic | 1,134,187 | 47.81% | 1,226,105 | 53.48% | ElectedY |
| 2019 | Daniel Martínez | Graciela Villar | 949,376 | 40.49% | 1,152,271 | 49.21% | LostN |
| 2024 | Yamandú Orsi | Carolina Cosse | 1,071,826 | 46.12% | 1,196,798 | 52.08% | ElectedY |
The PSU was founded in 1910 and reorganized after themajority split away to form the Communist Party (PCU) in1921. The PSU moved to the left in 1959 and became a founder member of the Broad Front (FA) in 1971. Currently the party is divided between its more orthodox left-wing faction and the social-democrat modernizers.
Partido Socialista del Uruguay, Socialismo Democratico[Socialist Party of Uruguay, Democratic Socialism]
Una gran parte de los partidos de la centroizquierda latinoamericana participa en las actividades del Foro de São Paulo (FSP), una alianza internacional de los grupos políticos de ALC que existe desde hace más de treinta años. Entre ellos se puede nombrar al Partido Democrático Trabalhista (Brasil), Partido Socialista Brasiliero, Partido Socialista (Chile), Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberación Nacional, FFMLN (El Salvador), Partido de la Revolución Democrática (México), Partido Socialista del Uruguay.[A large part of Latin American centre-left parties participate in the activities of the São Paulo Forum (FSP), an international alliance of LAC political groups that has existed for more than thirty years. Among them are the Democratic Labour Party (Brazil), the Brazilian Socialist Party, the Socialist Party (Chile), the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the FFMLN (El Salvador), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (Mexico), and the Socialist Party of Uruguay.]
The Socialist Party of Uruguay (Partido Socialista del Uruguay--PSU), one of Uruguay's oldest left-wing parties (founded in 1910 by Emilio Frugoni), was one of its principal members.
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