Luis Alberto Aparicio Alejandro Lacalle Pou (1973-), is a Uruguayan

Uruguay

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 political figure.

Background; elections

Lacalle Pou is the middle son of former President of Uruguay

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 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...

.

He has followed his father's political footsteps, and is a member of the Partido Nacional.

In the 1999 general elections, he was elected representative for Canelones

Canelones

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. In 2004, he was re-elected national deputy for this same department.

Controversies and issues

In November 2007 Lacalle Pou was involved in a fight, in front of television cameras, in the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay

Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay

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 involving a government deputy, Juan Domínguez

Juan Domínguez (Uruguay)

-Political role:He is a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay and belongs to the Movement of Popular Participation, led by José Mujica. This forms part of the Frente Amplio political grouping supporting President of Uruguay Tabaré Vázquez, who took office in 2005.-Re...

, and others.

Spokesmen for government and opposition parties subsequently disowned the behaviour in connection with the incident. Discussion of the activities of Tupamaros

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 and a slur on the ancestry of Lacalle Pou were thought to have provoked the violent, televised scenes, but the Frente Amplio

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 and National

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 parties were subsequently at pains to stress what they claimed was the unrepresentative nature of the behaviour among the deputies. (Link, below, to 'Espectador' article of November 6, 2007).

Lacalle Pou's career superficially mirrors that of Pedro Bordaberry

Pedro Bordaberry

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, also a son of a former President of Uruguay

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, who followed his father into politics; however, unlike Bordaberry, he has been less successful in avoiding controversy.

As a two-term national representative, it is supposed that Lacalle wishes to run in the forthcoming 2009 general election for the Senate of Uruguay

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. He is the leader of the political lists 404 (Montevideo), 400 (Canelones).

See also

• :es:Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou (in Spanish)
• Politics of Uruguay
  Politics of Uruguay
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• List of political families#Uruguay
• Juan Dom%C3%ADnguez (Uruguay)#Re. parentage of Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou

External links

• http://www.parlamento.gub.uy/palacio3/legisladores/legislador.asp?id=4605167
• Re. Deputy Lacalle Pou and controversial violence in Chamber of Deputies, November 2007 http://www.espectador.com/nota.php?idNota=108493, Article, including details of Deputy Domínguez's 'oligarca puto' [approx. translation: 'bastard oligarch'] allegation made against Lacalle Pou, 'Espectador', November 6, 2007