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Contents 1 List of Vice Presidents of Uruguay 2 History of the office 2.1 Periods of abeyance of the office 3 Uruguayan political culture: reputations of Vice Presidential office holders 3.1 Varying degrees of office holders' constitutionalism 3.2 Lack of inherent legal position 3.3 No guarantee of office holder's future political prospects 4 See also 5 References

[edit] List of Vice Presidents of Uruguay

Parties: Colorado Party, National Party, Frente Amplio

From-To	Name	Party
1934-1938	César Charlone	Colorado
1938-1943	Alfredo Navarro	Colorado
1943-1947	Alberto Guani	Colorado
1947	Luis Batlle Berres	Colorado
1947-1951	Alfeo Brum	Colorado
1951-1955	Alfeo Brum	Colorado
1955-1967	"Colegiado" - No Vice President
1967	Jorge Pacheco Areco	Colorado
1967-1972	Alberto Abdala	Colorado
1972-1973	Jorge Sapelli	Colorado
1973-1985	Civilian-Military Administration - No Vice President
1985-1990	Enrique Tarigo	Colorado
1990-1995	Gonzalo Aguirre	National
1995-1998	Hugo Batalla	Colorado
1998-2000	Hugo Fernández Faingold	Colorado
2000-2005	Luis Antonio Hierro López	Colorado
2005-	Rodolfo Nin Novoa	Frente Amplio

[edit] History of the office

The office of Vice President of Uruguay dates from 1934 ^[1].

The powers of the Vice President are not only limited, but as an office it suffers from a relative lack of historical continuity.

[edit] Periods of abeyance of the office

The office was in abeyance from 1955-1967 and again from 1973-1985. The fact that it was not only the Civilian-military governments of 1973-1985 which dispensed with the office of Vice President of Uruguay, but also successive governments in the 1950s and 1960s, gives further perspective to the relative lack of prominence and functionality which has marked the office in recent times.

[edit] Uruguayan political culture: reputations of Vice Presidential office holders

[edit] Varying degrees of office holders' constitutionalism

Some of the holders of the office of Vice President have been strongly identified with rule by decree as promoted by a President under whom they served, (e.g., César Charlone); indeed, the very office of Vice President of Uruguay was the creation of President Gabriel Terra, who, by 1934, ruled by decree.

Others such as Jorge Sapelli have sought to cultivate for themselves the image of strict constitutionalists while simultanously celebrating the repudiation of the office of Vice President; however, this image was one which was cultivated upon leaving office, rather than because of his record in government.

[edit] Lack of inherent legal position

It is also to be noted that the holder has no inherent legal position apart from that office, whereas the next-in-line to the Presidency in early 1985, when President Gregorio Alvarez resigned, was Rafael Addiego Bruno, a leading jurist and President of the Supreme Court of Uruguay, who, however, had not formally carried the title of Vice President before taking on the office of President as an interim measure. It is also to be noted that in 1985, when Addiego Bruno took on the Presidency as an interim measure, the immeidately previous formal Vice President had been Jorge Sapelli, who had chosen to repudiate his office; and thus the formal office of Vice President had not yet reappeared within Uruguayan political culture.

[edit] No guarantee of office holder's future political prospects

From the standpoint of Uruguayan political culture, it may also be noted that, unless the holder succeeds to the Presidency itself, the past exercise of the office of Vice President is not necessarily in itself a strong guarantee of subsequent preeminence or prominence in Uruguayan party politics. Various examples of this can be cited: former Vice President Luis Antonio Hierro López of the Colorado Party found himself somewhat eclipsed by other former government colleagues subsequent to leaving office in 2005; it is as a former diplomat rather than as a former Vice President that Alberto Guani is chiefly remembered; Jorge Sapelli spent many years in the political wilderness.

[edit] See also

• Vice President#Vice presidents in government
• List of current Vice Presidents
• History of Uruguay
• Politics of Uruguay

[edit] References

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