♦ Yamandú Orsi took office as Uruguay's new President.

♦ He is a former mayor and history teacher.

♦ He narrowly won the November election against the ruling center-right coalition.  

♦ Orsi marks the return of Uruguay’s Broad Front — a centre-left mix of moderates, communists and hardline trade unionists — after a five-year interruption by the country’s outgoing conservative President, Luis Lacalle Pou.