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02 March 20200.00 After 15 years of leftist government, Uruguay turns right: Luis Lacalle Pou, of the center-right National Party, has taken over the presidency. The former senator comes to power 30 years after his father, Luis Alberto. He paraded on the street in Montevideo in a 1937 Cabriolet of his great-grandfather, an important politician of the late nineteenth century. Better education and economics and greater security are the themes of Lacalle Pou's speech to Parliament. The era of the Frente Amplio, a coalition of the leftists in power since 2005, comes to an end