(25 Oct 2014) Campaign volunteers in Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, spent Saturday canvassing and handing out flyers to encourage more people to back their respective presidential candidates ahead of Sunday's vote.
The Broad Front, the political party of outgoing President Jose Mujica, is currently ahead in the polls.
But Mujica cannot run again and victory is far from assured.
Polls suggest that neither of the two front runners, the Broad Front's 74-year-old Tabare Vazquez or his challenger, 41-year-old National Party candidate Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, will obtain the 50 per cent needed to avoid a second round of voting on 30 November.
Vazquez was president of Uruguay in 2005-2010, while Pou is the son of former President of Uruguay, Luis Alberto Lacalle.
Uruguayan law barred Mujica from running for a second consecutive term.
Under his rule Uruguay became the most liberal country in South America, making abortion and growing marijuana legal.
In his campaign, Pou said he would seek to modify the law that Mujica spearheaded to create the world's first national marketplace for legal marijuana.
He would still allow consumers to grow the plants at home for personal use, but would end the Uruguayan government's role in the production and sales of marijuana.
Pou also vowed to focus on crime and education when elected, issues many Mujica critics have said were not addressed under his leadership.
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