<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>King Felipe VI and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, will attend the inauguration of the new President of Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, on March 1, according to diplomatic sources informed <em>The Diplomat</em>.</strong></h4> Yamandú Orsi, candidate of the Frente Amplio, won the presidential elections last November against the official candidate, Álvaro Delgado, of the Partido Nacional, which makes him the third left-wing president in the history of Uruguay. He will succeed Luis Lacalle Pou and will serve as President for five years, until March 1, 2030. Orsi, 57, is a history teacher who spent his childhood in a humble house without electricity in a rural area of Uruguay and whose interest in politics began during his adolescence, after the return of democracy following the military dictatorship of 1973-1985. Following his electoral victory, the new president was congratulated by the Spanish Government, both by the president, Pedro Sánchez, who expressed his desire to work “together” to promote “the fight against climate change and social justice”, and by the second vice president of the Government and leader of Sumar (minority partner of the coalition Government), Yolanda Díaz, who stressed that “the Frente Amplio will once again make Uruguay a reference in Latin America and the world”. The King represents Spain at the inaugurations of Ibero-American presidents, a task that Don Felipe has been assuming since 1996 when he was still Prince of Asturias. This is the eighteenth<span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"> </span></span></span>participation of Felipe VI in the inauguration of an Ibero-American president since he became King. Specifically, the Monarch was at the inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president of Mexico in 2018; in 2019, at that of the Panamanian Laurentino Cortizo; in 2020, in those of Uruguay's Luis Lacalle Pou and Bolivia's Luis Arce; in 2021, in those of Ecuador's Guillermo Lasso Mendoza and Peru's Pedro Castillo; in 2022, in those of Honduran Xiomara Castro, Chile's Gabriel Boric, Costa Rica's Rodrigo Chaves and Colombia's Gustavo Petro; in 2023, in those of Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Paraguay's Santiago Peña Palacios and Argentina's Javier Milei; and in 2024, in those of Guatemala's President César Bernardo Arévalo de León; Panama's President José Raúl Mulino Quintero; and the re-elected Nayib Bukele, from El Salvador; and Luis Abinader, from the Dominican Republic.
