El marc polític d'Uruguai

Political Outline

Current Political Leaders

President: Yamandú ORSI Martínez (since 1 March 2025)

Next Election Dates

Presidential: November 2029
Legislative: October 2029

Main Political Parties

Uruguay has a multi-party system with three dominant political coalitions. Outside of these coalitions, it is extremely difficult for any other political party to achieve electoral success. The dominant political forces are:

- Broad Front (FA): center-left coalition comprising various groups, including the Movimiento de Participación Popular (MPP), the Socialist Party (PS), and Vertiente Artiguista (VA). After a period in opposition, the FA returned to power in March 2025 with Yamandú Orsi as president
- National Party (PN): conservative party, nationalist, liberal, also referred to as the "White Party"
- Colorado Party: centre-right, a liberal and social-democratic party, one of the most elected parties in Uruguayan history
- Open Cabildo (Cabildo Abierto): right-wing, populist, conservative
- Independent Party (PI): centre, a social democratic and Christian socialist party, advocates "Third Way" - an alternative to the traditional left and right-wing politics
- Ecologist Radical Intransigent Party (PERI): centre to centre-left, green politics, liberal
- Popular Unity (UP): coalition of left-wing and far-left, Marxist-communist, anti-imperialist
- Party of the People (Partido de la Gente): right-wing, populist, conservative
- Green Animalist Party (PVA): centre to centre-right, green conservatism, animal rights, direct democracy
- Workers' Party (Partido de los Trabajadores): far-left, Trotskyist, socialist
- Digital Party (Partido Digital): the party advocated for e-democracy and is against being labelled either right, centre, or left.

Executive Power

The President of the Republic is both the Head of State and the Head of Government and is elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term. While the President may be reelected any number of times, immediate reelection is not allowed by the Constitution.

Legislative Power

Parliament is bicameral. The General Assembly is made up of the Chamber of Senators, which is composed of 30 members directly elected to serve 5-year terms; and the Chamber of Representatives, composed of 99 members directly elected to serve 5-year terms.