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35-539: He came to office following the Presidential elections of late 1971 . In 1973, Bordaberry dissolved the General Assembly and was widely regarded as ruling by decree as a military-sponsored dictator until disagreements with the military led to his being overthrown before his original term of office had expired. On 17 November 2006 he was arrested in a case involving four deaths, including two of members of

70-682: A double referendum . The result was a victory for the Colorado Party , which won the presidency and the most seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Wilson Ferreira Aldunate of the National Party received the most votes of any individual candidate. However, the combined Colorado vote exceeded the combined National vote by just over 12,000 votes, resulting in Colorado candidate Juan Maria Bordaberry becoming president. Under

105-656: A candidate for Intendant of Montevideo , obtaining 26% of the vote, compared to 56% for the Broad Front candidate, Ricardo Ehrlich . Sometime after his defeat in the municipal elections, Bordaberry left the Lista 15 faction, and in 2007 he founded the Vamos Uruguay faction. In 2009, Bordaberry was selected as the Colorado Party's candidate for the presidential election . On 21 March 2009, Bordaberry

140-509: A dictator. Bordaberry sometimes participates in outdoor public meetings on horseback, or in traditional "gaucho" horseriding attire. He has also contributed to literary criticism of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges , writing on Borges's theme of the complexity of memory. Bordaberry is also known as a major figure in the sports of Uruguay , having played soccer for his university, basketball for Club Trouville , and rugby for

175-463: A former minister, has been vocal in public support for his father and, by strong implication, for a measure of justification for the role of the civilian-military government of 1973–1985. Another son, Santiago Bordaberry , is a rancher and religious activist and has been prominent in the former President's public defence. On 5 March 2010, Bordaberry was sentenced to 30 years in prison (the maximum allowed under Uruguayan law) for murder and of being

210-400: A long association with rural affairs (see Domingo Bordaberry ). Bordaberry was elected president as a Colorado candidate in 1971. He actually won the second-most overall votes, finishing 60,000 votes behind Wilson Ferreira Aldunate of the National Party . However, the combined Colorado vote exceeded the combined National vote by just over 12,000 votes. Under Uruguay's Ley de Lemas system,

245-414: A muted response, Bordaberry noted that Hierro had previously campaigned for Bordaberry as colleagues in government, and had previously been silent about Bordaberry's family background. In the presidential vote on 26 October, Bordaberry won 17%, finishing behind the National Party and Broad Front candidates, but increasing the Colorado Party 's share of the vote. He endorsed Luis Alberto Lacalle for

280-581: A senator and rancher. His great-grandfather, Santiago Bordaberry (born Jaques Bordaberry) was an immigrant from the French Basque Country who arrived in Uruguay in the second half of the 19th century. His great-great-grandfather and great-great-aunt Alejo Gregorio and Amalia Victoria Arocena Artagaveytia (the latter of whom was the paternal grandmother of Alberto Zumarán ) were nephews of business magnate Ramón F. Artagaveytia Gómez , one of

315-460: Is a Uruguayan attorney, lecturer, and politician, who served as a Senator of the Republic from 2010 to 2020, as Minister of Tourism and Sports from 2003 to 2005, and as Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining from 2002 to 2003. A member of the Colorado Party , he was the party's candidate for president in the 2009 and 2014 presidential elections. Bordaberry was born on 28 April 1960 in

350-614: The Blancos , and was elected to the Senate on the Blanco ticket. In 1964, however, he assumed the leadership of Liga Nacional de Accion Ruralista ( Spanish for "National Rural Action League"), and in 1969 joined the Colorado Party . That year he was appointed to the Cabinet , where he sat from 1969 to 1971 as agriculture minister in the government of President Jorge Pacheco , having had

385-561: The 2019 presidential primaries in which Ernesto Talvi was confirmed as the presidential candidate of the Colorado Party, and in which the newly created Open Cabildo party obtained a high percentage of right-wing votes, several politicians and the media began to speculate on a possible new candidacy of Bordaberry for the Senate, to avoid a drain of Colorado votes in the general election . However, he withdrew after much opposition from party authorities. On August 6, 2024, Bordaberry announced his return to active politics and his candidacy for

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420-522: The Ley de Lemas system in effect at the time, the highest-finishing candidate of the party that won the most votes was elected president. This allowed Bordaberry to become president even though he personally received around 60,000 fewer votes than Ferreira. In December 1971, US President Richard Nixon boasted to UK Prime Minister Edward Heath that Brazil, an ally of the USA, had rigged the election to ensure that

455-851: The Mercosur trade pact, arguing that the Chilean model of pursuing bilateral trade pacts would be preferable for Uruguay . Pedro Bordaberry's decision to seek a political base in Montevideo contrasts with his father, dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry , who had a long association with rural affairs. Juan Maria Bordaberry was arrested in 2006 in connection with the 1976 assassination of two legislators, Senator Zelmar Michelini and House Leader Héctor Gutiérrez . Pedro Bordaberry has since been vocal in his support. Despite his own family history of dictatorship, Bordaberry has on several occasions accused former president José Mujica of being or striving to become

490-858: The Old Boys & Old Girls Club . In fact, in 1998, Bordaberry, along with Richard Van Rompaey and Jorge Villa, was the president of the Uruguayan Rugby Union . On 21 August 2018, FIFA appointed a "normalisation committee" for the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF). Bordaberry was put in charge, alongside politician Armando Castaingdebat , and former professional association football player Andrés Scotti . He married psychologist and psychotherapist María José Oribe in 1985. The couple have three children: Pedro, Agustín, and Matías. On 15 March 2020, Bordaberry announced that he had contacted COVID-19 , making him one of

525-591: The Republican Coalition , he publicly supported Álvaro Delgado Ceretta for president in the runoff of the election. Following the inauguration of the Obama administration in the U.S., Bordaberry said that Uruguayan business leaders seeking to export their goods to the U.S. would encounter greater protectionism from U.S. officials. In August 2009, during difficult relations with Argentina over trade issues, Bordaberry expressed strong reservations about

560-532: The Universidad ORT Uruguay from 1995 until 2000. Bordaberry began his career in public service as National Director of Industrial Property, reporting to the Minister of Industry and Energy from 1992 to 1994. In 2000 he was appointed Undersecretary of Tourism by President Jorge Batlle and served as Minister of Tourism and Sports from 2003 to 2005. In the 2005 municipal elections , he was

595-544: The general election of October , he was in third place with 12.89%, behind Tabaré Vázquez and Luis Lacalle Pou ; however, he was re-elected to the Senate. Bordaberry was elected to the Uruguayan Senate in 2009. In early 2010 Bordaberry called for the establishment of a new university in the interior city of Durazno , with a view to assisting disadvantaged potential students. In 2017 Bordaberry said he would not run again for president or senator in 2019. After

630-573: The "leftists" lost. Fifteen months after taking office, Bordaberry carried out a self-coup , closing down the General Assembly and giving the military and police full powers to restore order. This marked the start of a civic-military dictatorship that ruled the country until the next free elections in 1984 . This Uruguayan elections -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pedro Bordaberry Juan Pedro Bordaberry Herrán (born 28 April 1960)

665-562: The Christian Democratic Party and House leader Héctor Gutiérrez of the National Party . The assassinations took place in Buenos Aires but the prosecution argued they had been part of Operation Condor , in which the military regimes of Uruguay and Argentina coordinated actions against dissidents. Timbal ruled that since the killings took place outside Uruguay, they were not covered by an amnesty enacted after

700-493: The Constitution and gave the military and police the power to take whatever measures it deemed necessary to restore order. For the next three years, he ruled by decree with the assistance of a National Security Council ("COSENA"). There were several important public figures in his cabinet. During the first, democratic years, Julio María Sanguinetti , José Antonio Mora , Luis Barrios Tassano , Pablo Purriel ; later, during

735-520: The General Assembly during the period of civilian-military rule in the 1970s. Bordaberry was born in 1928 in Montevideo , Uruguay's capital. Juan María Bordaberry's father was Domingo Bordaberry , who served in the Senate and in Ruralist leadership, and he was the heir to one of the largest ranches in the country. Initially, Juan María Bordaberry belonged to the National Party , popularly known as

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770-538: The Republic , from which he graduated in 1986 with a law degree. As a lawyer, he worked mainly in the financial sector. Up until 1 April 2009, Bordaberry was a partner for the Jiménez de Aréchaga, Viana & Brause law firm (now a part of Dentons ), a stake that he sold to dedicate himself entirely to his political activity. He also served as a professor for the University of the Republic from 1986 until 1991 and for

805-523: The Senate as head of the Lista 10 electoral list . He confirmed that the Vamos Uruguay sector would cover electoral lists 29 and 2000 led by Gabriel Gurméndez and Tabaré Viera , respectively. In the election, Lista 10 was the most voted electoral list of the Colorado Party, and both Bordaberry and Viera were elected Senators of the Republic for the 50th Legislature (2025-2030). As a member of

840-428: The capital city of Montevideo , the fourth child of Juan María Bordaberry and his wife, Josefina Herrán Puig . Bordaberry comes from a family heavily involved in politics; his father, who was of Basque descent, was elected president in 1971 and, in 1973, led a self-coup d'état , dissolving the General Assembly and initiated the civil-military dictatorship . His great-grandfather, Domingo Bordaberry , served as

875-592: The dictatorial period, Alejandro Végh Villegas , Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé , Walter Ravenna , Néstor Bolentini . Gradually, Bordaberry became even more authoritarian than his military partners. In June 1976, he proposed a new, corporatist constitution that would have permanently shuttered the parties and codified a permanent role for the military. This was further than even the military wanted to go, and it forced him to resign. Bordaberry then returned to his ranch. Bordaberry and his wife, Josefina Herrán , had nine children. One of Bordaberry's sons, Pedro Bordaberry ,

910-480: The end of impunity in Uruguay, a country considered by some to have lagged behind other Latin American nations in this matter. However, former President Julio Sanguinetti has been critical of the one-sided prosecution of individuals involved in the conflict, and there has been lively media debate regarding issues surrounding Bordaberry's arrest. One of his sons, Pedro Bordaberry , himself presidential candidate and

945-675: The highest-finishing candidate of the party that won the most votes was elected president. Bordaberry took office in 1972 in the midst of an institutional crisis caused by the authoritarian rule of Pacheco and the terrorist threat. Bordaberry, at the time, had been a minor political figure; he had little independent standing as a successor to Pacheco other than being Pacheco's handpicked successor. He continued Pacheco's authoritarian methods, suspending civil liberties, banning labor unions, and imprisoning and killing opposition figures. He appointed military officers to most leading government positions. Before and after his period of Presidential office, he

980-743: The intellectual author of kidnappings and disappearances of political opponents of the regime, becoming the second former Uruguayan dictator sentenced to a long prison term; in October 2009, Gregorio Conrado Álvarez was sentenced to 25 years. He had also been unsuccessfully tried for violating the constitution in the 1973 coup. On 17 July 2011, Bordaberry died, aged 83, at his home. He had been suffering from respiratory problems and other illnesses. His remains are buried at Parque Martinelli de Carrasco . 1971 Uruguayan general election General elections were held in Uruguay on 28 November 1971, alongside

1015-454: The murders of Michelini and Gutiérrez Ruiz. On 10 September 2007, another Appellate Court opened a new case to be tried by Judge Gatti for 10 homicides, for violations of the constitution. On 7 February 2008, the BPS , Social Security Administration, suspended Bordaberry's retirement payments as ex-president of the country. Bordaberry's arrest was generally met with satisfaction and regarded as

1050-409: The return of civilian rule in 1985. On 23 January 2007, he was hospitalized in Montevideo with serious respiratory problems. Because of his health problems the judge Paublo Eguern ordered that Bordaberry be transferred to house arrest. From 27 January he served his prison term in the house of one of his sons in Montevideo. On 1 June 2007, an Appellate Court confirmed the continuation of the case of

1085-454: The second round run-off vote that took place at the end of November 2009. On 9 November 2013, Bordaberry officially launched his presidential campaign for the 2014 presidential primaries . He hired campaign advisers who had worked for Bill Clinton and Barack Obama . On 1 June 2014, he prevailed in the Colorado Party primary election with 73.62% of the votes, against Senator José Amorín Batlle and former Senator Manuel Flores Silva. In

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1120-522: The three Uruguayans who lost their lives during the sinking of the Titanic , and double cousins and second uncles to Emilia Nicanora Artagaveytia Arocena, paternal grandmother of the former National Party senator, Francisco Gallinal . Bordaberry attended primary school at St. Andrews School, and secondary school at The British Schools and John XXIII Institute . He enrolled at the University of

1155-410: Was Minister for Tourism and Industry in the government of Jorge Batlle . Another son, Santiago , is a rural affairs activist. On 17 November 2006, following an order by judge Roberto Timbal , Bordaberry was placed under arrest along with his former foreign minister Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé . He was arrested in connection with the 1976 assassination of two legislators, Senator Zelmar Michelini of

1190-477: Was formally accepted as presidential candidate for Vamos Uruguay at a ceremony in a stadium in Montevideo attended by an estimated 7,000 supporters. In June 2009, Bordaberry paused his work for the legal practice at which he had been active to focus on the presidential campaign. In June 2009, Bordaberry was publicly criticised by Colorado Party colleague Luis Antonio Hierro López , a previous ministerial colleague also running for president, due to his surname. In

1225-407: Was identified with schemes for agricultural improvement; his Agriculture minister was Benito Medero . In personal terms, one of Bordaberry's actions which proved in hindsight to have been disadvantageous was his appointment of Jorge Sapelli as Vice President of Uruguay , given the latter's resignation and public repudiation of him in 1973. On June 27, 1973 , Bordaberry dissolved Congress, suspended

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