Both candidates must undergo the debate before the second round of elections, scheduled for November 24th.

Orsi received most of the ballots in the October 27th elections, with 43.9 percent of the votes. Delgado, of the National Party, was second with 26.8%, but will go to the runoff at the head of the Republican Coalition, which serves as an umbrella for the Colorado, Independent and Cabildo Abierto parties.

Law 19,827 of 2019 establishes “the holding of a debate between the candidates for the Presidency of the Republic who, not having achieved the absolute majority of votes required to be elected, must appear in a second election.”

The meeting will be broadcast live on radio and television on a national network and will not last more than two hours.

In the previous election (2019) a debate took place between the current president, Luis Lacalle Pou, and the candidate for Frente Amplio Daniel Martínez.

The topics under discussion were social security, country vision and role of the State, social integration and security, human development and economic development and employment, the Ámbito jornal recalled.

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