Tabaré Vázquez
…Uruguay scrapped the Ley de Lemas system, he led the field in the first round, with 40.1 percent of the vote. He lost the runoff to Colorado candidate Jorge Batlle, taking 45.9 percent of the vote. In the 2004 elections, he won 50.45% of the valid votes, enough to win the presidency in a single round. He became…