Gonzalo Aguirre

Gonzalo Aguirre Ramírez (born 25 January 1940 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan politician, lawyer and journalist. From 1 March 1990 to March 1, 1995, he served as vice president under President Luis Alberto Lacalle.

Aguirre studied law and became a well-known lawyer of Constitutional Law. In the elections of 1984, which ended the military rule in Uruguay, he was a candidate for his party Por la Patria to the vice president candidate in. However, his party lost under their presidential candidate Alberto Zumaran against the Partido Colorado with its leading candidate Julio María Sanguinetti. Nevertheless, Aguirre Senator for his party.

In 1987, Aguirre separated itself. Founded by his party and himself a party that Renovación y Victoria In 1988, the Renovación y Victoria formed a coalition with the Partido Nacional and Aguirre was the second time a candidate for the office of Vice President. In the elections of November 1989, the Partido Nacional and won Aguirre became vice president.

In 1993, the Renovación y Victoria the coalition, although Aguirre remained vice president. In the primaries of 1994 Aguirre supported the candidacy of his cousin Juan Andrés Ramírez losing to the incumbent Lacalle, in the 1999 elections he was unsuccessful candidate for the Senate.

In the following years, Aguirre withdrew from active politics, his party Renovación y Victoria virtually ceased after 1999 to exist. In the primaries in 2004, he supported the candidacy of Jorge Larrañaga, who eventually was presidential candidate for the Partido Nacional, but lost the election against Tabaré Vázquez and the Frente Amplio.

Aguirre is still working as a lawyer and was for many years a famous columnist for the newspaper El Pais.

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• History of Uruguay
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