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Gonzalo Aguirre Ramírez (born 1940) is a Uruguay

Uruguay

Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

an politician. lawyer

Lawyer

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and newspaper columnist

Journalist

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. He served as Vice President of Uruguay

Vice President of Uruguay

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from 1990 to 1995.

Background

Gonzalo Aguirre is a politician from the National Party (Uruguay)

National Party (Uruguay)

The National Party , also known as the White Party , is a major right-wing conservative political party in Uruguay, currently the major opposition party to the ruling Frente Amplio government....

. He studied law in his youth and became a well-known lawyer specialised in constitutional law. He became politically active during the military regime in Uruguay, 1973-1985. In the 1984 elections, which put an end to de-facto rule, he was selected as vice-presidential running mate of Alberto Zumaran, the candidate of the majority faction of his party, Por la Patria. The leader of the Por la Patria faction, Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, was imprisoned and prohibited from running for president. Aguirre was at the time member of the Movimiento Nacional de Rocha faction. In this way, the alliance between these two factions was repeated, as it had already taken place in the 1971 elections. Although Zumaran-Aguirre emerged victorious within the National Party, the Blancos lost the election to the Colorado Party

Colorado Party (Uruguay)

The Colorado Party is a political party in Uruguay.- Aims :It unites Conservative, Moderate and Social democratic groups. It was the dominant party of government almost without exception during the stabilisation of the Uruguayan republic....

and its main candidate, Julio María Sanguinetti. Aguirre nevertheless was elected Senator for his faction.

In 1987, Aguirre split from the Movimiento Nacional de Rocha and founded his own sector, Renovación y Victoria. In 1988, the Herrerismo

Herrerismo

Herrerism is a political faction of the Partido Nacional in Uruguay.-History, and prominent members:It is named after the leader and founder of the faction, Dr...

faction led by Luis Alberto Lacalle

Luis Alberto Lacalle

Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera is a Uruguayan lawyer and politician who served as President of Uruguay from 1990 to 1995.-Background:His mother, María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, was the daughter of the Blanco political leader Luis Alberto de Herrera, after whom Lacalle was named. Luis...

entered an alliance with Renovación y Victoria, and Aguirre became the running mate of Lacalle.

Vice President of Uruguay

In the November 1989 elections, Lacalle-Aguirre won within the National Party and defeated the Colorado Party and other parties.

After taking office as Vice President of Uruguay

Vice President of Uruguay

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in March 1990, Aguirre supported with a varying degree of enthusiasm the free-market policies espoused by the Lacalle administration. In March 1993, Renovación y Victoria abandoned the coalition government of Lacalle, although Aguirre remained as vice-president (the vice president in Uruguay is elected by the people for a fixed five year term). In March 1994, Aguirre was chosen by his faction to be a presidential candidate in the November 1994 elections, but in early October of that year he renounced his candidacy after Julio María Sanguinetti, former President and candidate of the Foro Batllista faction of the Colorado Party, alleged that his candidacy was incompatible (in Uruguay, the vice-president may not occupy the presidency, even interimly, three months before the general elections, and Aguirre had replaced Lacalle in August when the President had gone on a visit abroad). Aguirre therefore supported the candidacy of his cousin, Juan Andrés Ramírez

Juan Andrés Ramírez

Juan Andrés Ramírez is a Uruguayan lawyer and politician.-Background:Juan Andrés Ramírez was born in Montevideo. He studied law, becoming a well-known civil lawyer. He became a member of the National Party...

, candidate of the Herrerismo faction. The National Party narrowly lost the elections to the Colorado Party.

Historical note

Aguirre was the tenth person to hold the office of Vice President of Uruguay

Vice President of Uruguay

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. The office dates from 1934, when César Charlone

César Charlone (politician)

César Charlone was a Uruguayan political figure.-Background:Charlone was prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party during the 1930s.-Vice President of Uruguay:...

became Uruguay

Uruguay

's first Vice President.

Later career

Aguirre failed to get elected to any office both in the 1994 and in the 1999 elections. In 1999, he supported Juan Andrés Ramírez in the primary elections of April 1999, although Ramírez lost to Luis Alberto Lacalle. In the October 1999 elections, he was a candidate for the Senate for Alianza Nacional

National Alliance (Uruguay)

The National Alliance is a sector of the National Party .-Leadership:Its leader is Jorge Larrañaga, who ran for President of Uruguay in 2004...

, but failed to be elected.

In recent years, Aguirre has abandoned active politics, his faction, Renovación y Victoria, effectively disappearing after 1999. In the 2004 primary elections, he supported Jorge Larrañaga

Jorge Larrañaga

Jorge Washington Larrañaga Fraga is a Uruguayan politician. He is a senator and was Intendant of Paysandú . He was the presidential candidate of the National Party in 2004.-Background:...

, who became the Party's nominee for the presidential elections of October 2004, but who lost to Tabaré Vázquez

Tabaré Vázquez

Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas is a former President of Uruguay. A physician by training, he is a member of the leftist Frente Amplo coalition . Vázquez was elected president on October 31, 2004, took office on March 1, 2005, and relinquished the office on March 1, 2010...

and the Frente Amplio

Broad Front (Uruguay)

The Broad Front is a Uruguayan left-wing coalition of political parties. It is led by Jorge Brovetto. Frente Amplio has close ties with PIT-CNT trade union and the cooperative housing movement.-History:...

.

Aguirre still works as a lawyer and for many years has been a distinguished columnist of Uruguay's main daily newspaper, El País (Uruguay).

Lately he has re-joined Lacalle.

Background

Vice President of Uruguay

Historical note

Later career

See also