Uruguay elects first leftist leader
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Uruguay has made a historic political shift in electing its first leftist president, Tabare Vazquez, and giving his coalition a majority in Congress to face rebuilding the country after its recent economic crisis.
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Uruguayans dismayed with recent economic turmoil may elect their first leftist president Sunday, joining the leftward drift by voters across South America.
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Defeated leftist presidential candidate Andr&#233;s Manuel L&#243;pez Obrador is creating a 'parallel government.'
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Mexican leftists, who say the July  2 election was stolen, declared their candidate their  "legitimate president" on Saturday, a symbolic move reducing  the risk of street protests to make the country ungovernable.
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BUCHAREST : Amid allegations of widescale fraud, the candidate of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) narrowly emerged the leader in the first round of Romania&#39;s presidential election, according to partial vote tallies.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was winning Argentina's presidential election on Sunday, preliminary official results showed.
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Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez replaces half his cabinet, including defence and foreign ministers.
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Argentines vote for a new president on Sunday with first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner poised to succeed her husband in a rare democratic handover between spouses.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner swept to victory in Argentina's presidential vote on Sunday to become the first woman elected to lead the country, television exit polls showed.
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay  - Former left-wing guerrillas  who fought against the Uruguayan state in the 1970s were sworn  in on Tuesday to head the two houses of Congress as pivotal  players in the South American nation's historic shift to the  left.
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Romania's centrist opposition leader  Traian Basescu scored an upset victory in a presidential race  against leftist Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, partial official  results showed Monday.
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Montevideo, Uruguay -- Tabare Vazquez, a Socialist doctor running as the candidate of an opposition coalition that includes former guerrillas, narrowly triumphed Sunday in the presidential election, bringing the left to power for the first time in this
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Early returns and major exit polls suggested that first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won the presidency Sunday by a large enough margin to avoid a runoff. She would be the first woman in Argentina elected to the post.
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A coalition of leftist elements is predicted to win Uruguay&#39;s presidential election on Sunday - ending the conservative parties&#39; dominance of more than 170 years.
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Uruguayan physician and former Montevideo Mayor Tabare Vazquez declared victory as the nation&#39;s next president after exit polls showed he won a majority of votes in the South American country.
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Uruguayan emigrants caught the ferry from Argentina and cowboys from vast cattle ranches galloped their horses to town to vote in elections on Sunday that could give Uruguay its first leftist leader.
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MONTEVIDEO : Uruguay&#39;s leftist parties for the first time are heavily favored to end a 179-year conservative lock on the presidency in Sunday&#39;s elections in this South American nation plagued by growing poverty.