Armando Castaingdebat

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Armando Castaingdebat
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Minister of National Defense of Uruguay
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 March 2024

Armando Irineo Castaingdebat Colombo (born 25 October 1959) is a Uruguayan politician serving as Minister of National Defense since March 4, 2024 under President Luis Lacalle Pou. [1] A member of the National Party, he previously served as Deputy Minister of Social Development from 2020 to 2021, as National Representative from 2015 to 2020 and as Intendant of the Flores Department from 2005 to 2014.

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Graduated from the University of the Republic with a veterinary medicine degree, he has been a member of the National Party since the late 1980s. [2] A significant factor in his political career has been the sizeable agricultural interests which are present in the economic and labour-related life of Flores Department.

Political career

In the 2005 municipal elections, Walter Echeverría was elected Intendant of Flores, however, he died before he took office. Therefore, Castaingdebat took over as the first substitute. He was reelected to the office in the 2010 election. [3]

He served as President of the National Congress of Intendants between 2013 and 2014. He was elected for the Chamber of Representatives for the 48th Legislature in the 2014 general election. [4]

Castaingdebat is Intendent (Spanish: 'Intendente') of the Flores Department of Uruguay. By a large margin, this is the most sparsely populated of the country's 19 departments. [5]

After Luis Lacalle Pou's victory in the 2019 general election, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Social Development, accompanied by Pablo Bartol, who serves as Minister. [6] On May 3, 2021, he resigned from his post, after his son-in-law, Martín Lema, took office as minister. [7]

Other activities

In the University Elections of the University of the Republic, held on May 4, 2016, he was elected as a substitute in the Cloister of the Veterinary School in the order of graduates and under the slogan Corriente Gremial Universitaria - Egresados.

On 21 August 2018, FIFA appointed a normalisation committee for the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF). Three persons were put in charge: Castaingdebat, Senator Pedro Bordaberry, and former professional association football player Andrés Scotti. [8]

Personal life

He has three children, including politician Armando Castaingdebat Ramírez and Florencia Castaingdebat, Martín Lema's wife. [9] [10]

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  1. ↑ "Armando Castaingdebat asumió como ministro de Defensa y pidió "acelerar" la búsqueda de desaparecidos". EL PAIS (in Spanish). 2024-03-04. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
  2. ↑ es:Walter Echeverría
  3. ↑ "Asumió Castaingdebat en Flores". Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  4. ↑ "Se inauguró la XLVIII legislatura en nuestro país". Teledoce.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  5. ↑ "Documento sin título". Archived from the original on 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
  6. ↑ Observador, El. "Lacalle asegura reestructura del Mides con jurista de su confianza". El Observador. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  7. ↑ ElPais. "Castaingdebat dejó el Mides tras cese de Bartol: "No es correcto que yo estuviera"". Diario EL PAIS Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  8. ↑ "FIFA appoints normalisation committee for the AUF". FIFA.com . 29 August 2018. Archived from the original on August 30, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Tiene 30 años y es el intendente más joven en los 19 departamentos". subrayado.com.uy (in Spanish). 2022-01-11. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
  10. ↑ "Un ministro del gobierno de Lacalle Pou fue papá por tercera vez y le dio la bienvenida en redes al nuevo integrante de la familia". El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-07-26.
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