Jorge Batlle

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Jorge Batlle Ibáñez (2003)

Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez (born October 25, 1927 in Montevideo ; † October 24, 2016 there ) was a Uruguayan lawyer, journalist and politician. He was a member of the Colorado Party and was President of his country from March 1, 2000 to March 1, 2005.

Life

Jorge Batlle Ibáñez took the oath of office on March 1, 2000 after being elected President. The election to president was the conclusion of a long career in the civil service for Batlle, during which he was a member of Parliament, Senate and Congress. Jorge Batlle Ibáñez's political career began in 1945 and is closely linked to the Partido Colorado. His father Luis Batlle Berres was president twice. Other members of the family, originally from Catalonia , were also closely connected to the Partido Colorado.

Until 1958, when he was first elected Congressman , Batlle, who studied law and social sciences at the Universidad de la República and received his diploma in 1956, worked as a journalist for the radio station Ariel and for the newspaper Acción . At that time he was already a member of his party's executive committee. During the military dictatorship from 1973 to 1985 he did not hold any public office and was arrested several times. In 1985 he chaired the first democratically elected congress after the military dictatorship. In September 1986 he was the chairman of the Uruguayan delegation to the UN . November 1994 he was elected Senator for the period from February 15, 1995 to February 15, 2000. He resigned from this office on June 1, 1999, when he was elected by his party as a candidate for president.

In October 1999, an alliance of left-wing groups, Encuentro Progresista ( Frente Amplio ), became the strongest party in the parliamentary elections, while its presidential candidate Tabaré Vázquez was able to run off against the representative of the Colorado party, Jorge Luis, in the runoff elections for the office of head of state and government Batlle Ibáñez, who was sworn in in March 2000. Jorge Batlle Ibáñez was the 4th president to belong to the Batlle family - one of his predecessors was his own father - a name closely linked to the country's political history. His reign was marked by recession and uncertainty: first by the devaluation of the Brazilian real in 1999, then by the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that hit one of Uruguay's main industries, and finally by the political and economic fall of Argentina in 2001. Im In 2002, in the wake of the Argentina crisis , a banking crisis occurred in Uruguay, as a result of which several banks had to be restructured and some were also closed.

literature

  • Gustavo Arce, Daniela Guerra: El Uruguay en el primer lustro del siglo XXI: la economía política durante el gobierno del presidente Dr. Jorge Batlle . Universidad de la República, Facultad de Derecho, Montevideo 2007, ISBN 978-9974-2-0650-2 .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Jorge Batlle died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 26, 2016, p. 4.
  2. ^ Roberto Horta: Uruguay: La politica economica del gobierno del Dr. Jorge Batlle . In: Contribuciones. Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo Latinoamericano , ISSN  0326-4068 . 2001, no. 18 (enero-marzo 2001), pp. 203-218.
predecessor Office successor
Julio María Sanguinetti President of Uruguay
March 1, 2000 to March 1, 2005 		Tabaré Vázquez
personal data
SURNAME Batlle, Jorge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Batlle Ibáñez, Jorge; Batlle Ibáñez, Jorge Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan journalist, lawyer, politician and president
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2016
Place of death Montevideo