Uruguay ready to vote next next Sunday

The "election season", which ends months of boisterous election campaign, went into effect today throughout the Uruguay made ​​until after the general elections on Sunday.

Grateful for many citizens, saturated with messages, songs, "spots", brochures, caravans and marches with balloons and banners, the propaganda ban, by definition, seeks to free reflection of the voter.

The 1989 law, which took effect at midnight on Thursday, has the cessation of all acts "proselytizing propaganda on public roads, or open to the public or local media."

The measure also prohibited during this period, among other things, disseminating surveys or "any demonstrations or exhortation addressed to influence the decision" of the voter.

Today is the first day of relative silence, then the competing political parties closed their campaigns on the eve nourished mass rallies that forced the diversion of traffic at various points in Montevideo and the interior.

The ruling Frente Amplio (FA), a favorite in the polls, his campaign closed on La Rambla promenade in a rally, and the opposition (PC) Colorado Party, thirdly, it was in the same artery but several kilometers distance.

Another opposition National Party (PN), second, held its final act in the neighboring department of Canelones, near where the Independence Party (IP), fourth, ended his campaign Tuesday.

The Popular Unity (UP), the Green Party Radical Intransigent (PERI) and the Workers Party (PT), considered minor, closed their campaigns in different neighborhoods of Montevideo.

On the other hand, officials announced that about two thousand policemen will work on election day, in the custody of the ballot box, and law enforcement tasks and about three thousand 800 military support to the Electoral Court at the polling stations around the country.

The Interior Ministry, on the other hand, identified different neighborhoods of the capital for the celebrations of the authorities after learning the results of the elections, probably late Sunday night.

The holder of that portfolio, Eduardo Bonomi, said there have been no incidents and expressed confidence in "the civic culture of the Uruguayan people."

More than two million 600 thousand Uruguayans are eligible to vote for president, vice president, 30 senators and 99 representatives, as well as a constitutional amendment that seeks to lose 18 to 16 the age of criminal responsibility.

If the candidate misses the most votes more than half of the votes, there will be a runoff on Nov. 30 between the two of greater electoral support.