A flurry of polls accompanies the Uruguayan electoral process, and today Montevideo Portal gives the winner to the Frente Amplio (FA) in the first round.

With more than 19,000 interactions, 53.07 per cent of the responses favoured the FA, a figure very similar to the similar poll conducted in July.

If this result is confirmed and maintained, the left-wing alliance would win in the first round with a parliamentary majority.

The National Party (PN) came in second with 16.62 per cent, down three percentage points from the previous month.

Montevideo Portal’s results coincide with those of other polls, which show a decline for the PN and a rebound for the Colorado Party, which went from 10.68 per cent in July to 13.40 per cent in August.

Cabildo Abierto, also in the governing coalition, maintained its voting intentions with 2.17 per cent.

The Independent Party registered a modest rise, from 2.78 per cent to 3.07 per cent.

The political groupings grouped under the government’s umbrella party have a total of 35.26 per cent, far from being able to make it past the first round of the elections on 27 October, according to the source.

The day before, another poll, by Equipos Consultores, showed the pro-amplista candidate, Yamandú Orsi, as the winner in the second round against his main contenders, the Nationalist Álvaro Delgado and the Colorado candidate, Andrés Ojeda.

At this stage, pollsters are beginning to take an interest in the projections for the future composition of the Uruguayan Parliament, when the lists for the battle for the Legislative Assembly are being drawn up at party and party level.