Broad Front (Uruguay)

The Broad Front, in Spanish Frente Amplio and abbreviated FA, is a political coalition in Uruguay. It has been the ruling party of Uruguay since 2025, having previously ruled from 2005 to 2020, and it has produced three presidents: Tabare Vazquez, who served from 2005 to 2010 and again from 2015 to 2020, Jose Mujica, who served from 2010 to 2015, and Yamandu Orsi, who has served since 2025. Since 1999 it has been the largest party in the General Assembly of Uruguay. José Mujica belonged to the coalition of left-wing parties and was its candidate in the 2009 presidential election, and his own Movement of Popular Participation became the largest faction within it by 2004. The coalition has therefore been the main vehicle of the Uruguayan left in government since the early twenty-first century.