“The left will be forced to have good relations with Javier Milei and open up internationally”

The left-wing opposition candidate for the Uruguayan presidential election, Yamandu Orsi, won the second round of the election on Sunday, a victory marking the return to power of the left of the emblematic former president José Mujica. According to Denis Merklen, professor at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University and director of the Institute for Advanced Latin American Studies, Montevideo will be “ obliged to maintain good relations with the Argentine neighbor », led by far-right president Javier Milei.