Former president Vazquez wins in Uruguay vote

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Uruguay's former president has won the country's runoff election taking more that 50 percent of the vote, extending the left's decade-long hold on power, exit polls say.

Tabare Vazquez won the presidential runoff and will succeed his Broad Front (FA) party colleague Jose Mujica, known as "the world's poorest president."

Al Jazeera's Daniel Schweimler reports from Montevideo.