Vice President of Uruguay
- Vice President of Uruguay
List of Vice Presidents of Uruguay
Parties: Colorado Party, National Party, Frente Amplio
History of the office
The office of Vice President of Uruguay dates from 1934 [ 'Vicepresidente de Uruguay', Wikipedia (in Spanish) [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicepresidente_de_Uruguay] ] .
The powers of the Vice President are not only limited, but as an office it suffers from a relative lack of historical continuity. The office was in abeyance from 1955-1967 and again from 1973-1985.
Uruguayan political culture: reputations of office holders
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). Others such as Jorge Sapelli have sought to cultivate for themselves the image of strict constitutionalists. 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. From the standpoint of Uruguayan political culture, it may also be noted that 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; e.g., 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, and it is as a former diplomat rather than as a former Vice President that Alberto Guani is chiefly remembered.
ee also
*Vice_President#Vice_presidents_in_government
*History of Uruguay
*Politics of Uruguay
Reference
* [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicepresidente_de_Uruguay]
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