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At the age of 46, Lacalle Pou ended the 15 years of leftist rule in the country and became the youngest president since the end of the dictatorship in 1985. Nearly half of the country has approved Lacalle Pou's presidency thus far, with a September 2023 rating of 47% of the total population, the highest in the South American continent.
On 2 December 2019 president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou met up with outgoing president Tabaré Vázquez in the Executive Tower to begin the transition process. The next day the same process started in the Parliament, between outgoing vice president Lucía Topolansky and Beatriz Argimón.
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Other articles where Luis Lacalle Pou is discussed: Uruguay: Civilian government: …the new marijuana laws, and Luis Lacalle Pou of the conservative National Party (son of former president Luis Lacalle Herrera [1990–95]) made altering the legislation a cornerstone of his candidacy in the 2014 presidential election. However, seemingly content with the country’s ongoing economic progress ...
Feb 22, 2020 · Luis Lacalle Pou, the country’s conservative president-elect, is 46 years old but looks younger, with floppy brown hair, no jacket and sleeves rolled up. Days ahead of his swearing-in on March ...
Nov 27, 2014 · 3. He is the son of the former president of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle (1991-1995), ardent anti-socialist, and of María Julia Pou, who served as senator for the National Party. 3. While he showed political aspirations at a very young age, his current goals of pursuing the presidency are quite recent. 4.
Lacalle was elected president in the 1989 election, which marked the return of the National Party to government since it was the ruling political group in the National Council of Government from 1963 to 1967, and the first election of a president for that party since Bernardo Prudencio Berro in 1860. His presidency was characterized by a ...
Nov 29, 2019 · Lacalle Pou will formally take office in March 2020 for a five-year term as president. © 2019 AFP
