vote, beating Tabaré Vázquez of the Encuentro Progresista-Frente Amplio (EP-FA) coalition, the other PC candidates - Jorge Batlle and Jorge Pacheco - as well as the three PN candidates, the strongest of which was Alberto Volonté who received 14.9% of the vote. While Vázquez won the most votes of any individual candidate, under the Ley de Lemas still in force at the time, the highest-finishing candidate from the party winning the most votes would become president. This was the case even if that candidate was not the most-voted individual candidate (in practice this only affected the two biggest parties). In this case, even though Sanguinetti finished with 121,000 fewer votes than Vázquez, the Colorados polled 32.3% of the vote between them higher than the combined 31.2% received by the PN and the 30.6% received by Vázquez's Broad Front. On 1 March 1995 Sanguinetti was sworn in as the third leader to be re-elected in the country's history. Sanguinetti formed a coalition Government with PN which received 4 ministries, the Gobierno del Pueblo Party (PGP) - created by those who had broken away from the PC- whose leader, Hugo Batalla, was given the Vice-Presidency-, along with an independent cabinet minister with Unión Cívica ties. This alliance framework allowed him to bring the budget through a parliament divided in equal parts between the three main groups each year until the end of his term along with the reforms of the Social Security Law –attacked by worker and pensioner organizations- as well as the constitutional reform. Guaranteed the backing of two-thirds of the parliament, this reform, which eliminated the almost hundred-year old Ley de Lemas, was supported by 50.45% of the votes and came into force on 14 January 1997. The amendments strengthened the executive power against the legislative power and undertook a profound reform of the electoral system. Among other points, it limited each party to a single presidential candidate. If no candidate won a majority in the first round, the top two candidates in the first round would advance to a runoff. The expansionist economic policy of his Government brought about a reduction in the recession of -1.8% which had been registered the previous year, partly due to a fall in exports, and gave way to high growth rates that didn't generate inflation. The opposite is true in fact, this variable experimented a continuous fall until it reached around 6% in