Óscar Diego Gestido

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Óscar Diego Gestido Pose (born November 28, 1901 in Montevideo , † December 6, 1967 there ) was a Uruguayan politician from the Partido Colorado .

Gestido was elected president on November 27, 1966 after the abolition of the National Council (Consejo Nacional de Gobierno, CNG), to which he previously belonged as a member of the national council for the local minority of the Colorados and here for the Lista 14 , and took office on March 1 1967 on. He was a representative of the sublemas Unión Colorada y Batllista , the Gestido-Pacheco faction, who were running under the Lema of the Partido Colorado . Gestido died after only nine months in office. His successor was its Vice President Jorge Pacheco Areco .

Individual evidence

  1. historiareciente (Spanish) in El País , accessed on May 27, 2012 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  2. Bernhard Thibaut : Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America - Chapter 3.5: Uruguay (1942-1973) , pp. 163ff, 180, Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1996
predecessor Office successor
Andrés Martínez Trueba President of Uruguay
March 1, 1967 to December 6, 1967
Jorge Pacheco Areco