Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas is a Uruguayan politician serving as the 41st and current President of Uruguay since 2015. He previously served as President from 2005 to 2010 as the 39th officeholder. A physician (oncologist), he is a member of the leftist Broad Front coalition.
Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez was a Uruguayan politician and lawyer, and a member of the Colorado Party. He served as the President of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005.
The Liberal Party is a Uruguayan political party founded in 2002, espousing free market liberalism. The party thinks that the economic heyday of the Uruguay at the end of the 19th century was a consequence of the application of political initiatives founded in the liberal ideas, and that the abandonment of the same ones on the part of the successive governments from the Batlle period has determined the process of social and economic deterioration that the country suffers from 1955.
The National Party, also known as the White Party, is a major political party in Uruguay.
Uruguay elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature.
The Social Christian Unity Party is a centre-right political party in Costa Rica.
Rodolfo Nin Novoa is a Uruguayan politician who is the Chancellor of Uruguay, he was formerly the Vice President of Uruguay from 2005 to 2010. He is the leader of Progressive Alliance.
Encuentro por Guatemala ("EG")– a Spanish name variously translated as "Encounter for Guatemala", or as "Together for Guatemala" (Reuters) – is a Guatemalan political party; encuentro may also translate as "gathering", "meeting", or "union".
Luis Alberto Alejandro Aparicio Lacalle Pou is a Uruguayan lawyer, politician and current president-elect of Uruguay after winning the 2019 Uruguayan general election.
Italian Uruguayans are Uruguayan-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent or Italian-born people in Uruguay. It is estimated that more than one third of Uruguayans are of Italian descent.
The Partido Galeguista was a Galician nationalist party founded in December 1931. It achieved notoriety during the time of the Spanish Second Republic. The PG grouped a number of historical Galician intellectuals, and was fundamental in the elaboration of the Galician Statute of Autonomy.
The Electoral Court is the autonomous court which oversees elections and electoral results at all levels of Uruguayan government: national and local elections, referendums, etc.
The president of Uruguay, officially known as the president of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is the head of state and head of government of Uruguay. His rights are determined in the Constitution of Uruguay. Conforms with the Secretariat of the Presidency, the Council of Ministers and the director of the Office of Planning and Budget, the executive branch. In case of absence, his office is exercised by the vice president. In turn, the president of the republic is the commander in chief of the armed forces.
Argentine Uruguayans are people born in Argentina who live in Uruguay. In 2010, there were over 10,000 Argentines living in Uruguayan territory.
Matilde Ibáñez Tálice was a First Lady of Uruguay.
The Ecologist Radical Intransigent Party is a Uruguayan green party established in 2013.
Rodolfo Vicente Tálice Ruiz was a Uruguayan scholar, physician and writer.
Democratic Party of the New Left was a social democratic and ecologist political party in Spain. It was created in 1996 by a group that split from the United Left (IU) led by Cristina Almeida and Diego López Garrido.
General elections were held in Uruguay on Sunday, 27 October 2019 to elect the President and General Assembly. As no presidential candidate received a majority in the first round of voting, a runoff election took place on 24 November.
