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Uruguay is a presidential republic in which the president is both the head of state and head of government.The following is a list of all the people who have held the office of President of Uruguay since 6 November 1830 (when the first constitution was adopted), with the exception of those who held the office of "President" under the National Council of Government, which served as the country ...
On 1 March 2015, Tabaré Vázquez was sworn in as the new President of Uruguay to succeed president José Mujica. [152] In November 2019, conservative Luis Lacalle Pou won the election, bringing the end to 15 years of leftist rule of Broad Front. On 1 March 2020, Luis Lacalle Pou, the son of former president Luis Alberto Lacalle, was sworn in ...
[7] [8] Through his paternal grandmother, Mujica is a distant relative of several prominent Uruguayan politicians, including Gabriel Terra, the 26th president of Uruguay between 1931 and 1938. [9] Demetrio's parents owned several agricultural properties , and were used as training grounds for soldiers to combat the uprisings led by ...
Manuel Basilio Bustamante was born in San Carlos, a city in southern Uruguay. Between 1830 and 1834, he served as the representative for the Colonia Department. [1] He later also served as the representative for the Soriano Department and the Maldonado Department. [2] He became president after Venancio Flores resigned on 10
The president of Uruguay (Spanish: presidente del Uruguay), officially known as the president of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (presidente de la República Oriental del Uruguay), is the head of state and head of government of Uruguay. The president presides over the Council of Ministers, directing the executive branch of the national ...
Batlle was elected as a senator for Montevideo Department in November 1898, [26] and rapidly became President of the Senate of Uruguay. [1] As the President of the Senate was (at the time) the first in line to the presidency, Batlle briefly served as the acting President of Uruguay while Juan Lindolfo Cuestas stepped aside to legitimate his de ...
Uruguay's former guerilla-turned-president, José Mujica, widely known as a leftist icon who transformed his small country into one of the most socially liberal in all of Latin America, said ...
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