The Forty-Ninth Legislature of the Chamber of Senators of Uruguay is the session of the upper house of the Uruguayan General Assembly from February 15, 2020 to February 15, 2025, during the Presidency of Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou. It meets in Montevideo. Senators were elected in the 2019 general election in a single constituency.
| 49th Legislature of the Chamber of Senators | |||||||||
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| Overview | |||||||||
| Legislative body | General Assembly | ||||||||
| Jurisdiction | Uruguay | ||||||||
| Meeting place | Montevideo | ||||||||
| Term | 15 February 2020 – 15 February 2025 | ||||||||
| Election | 27 October 2019 | ||||||||
| Website | parlamento | ||||||||
| Senate | |||||||||
| Members | 30 senators | ||||||||
| President | Beatriz Argimón (PN) | ||||||||
| Party control | Coalición Multicolor (PN, PC, PI, CA, PG) | ||||||||
| Sessions | |||||||||
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Major events
edit- 15 February 2020: The Chamber of Senators was chaired by José Mujica as the new vice president had not yet taken office.[1][2]
- 1 March 2020: Vice President Beatriz Argimón, who serves as President of the Senate, took office.[3]
- 1 April 2020: A bill presented by President Lacalle Pou to soften the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic was unanimously approved; Law No. 19,874 created the "Coronavirus Fund".[4]
- 23 April 2020: A package of measures is presented by the Government through a "law of urgent consideration" to be legislated.[5]
- 20 October 2020: Two former Presidents, Julio María Sanguinetti (1980–1985, 1995–2000) and José Mujica (2010–2015) retired from the Senate due to their advanced age.[6][7]
- 15 December 2020: The General Assembly met to close the first session of the Legislature.[8]
- 16 December 2020: Vice President Beatriz Argimón summoned Parliament for a special session to legislate the measures announced by President Lacalle Pou due to the exponential growth of cases of COVID-19.[9][10]
- 19 December 2020: The Senate, in an all-night session, approved a law that regulates Article 38 of the Constitution, limiting the right of assembly for 60 days.[11] Closure of the country's border was also legislated, framed in Article 37.[12]
Party summary
edit| Party | Senate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | +/– | ||
| Broad Front | 949,376 | 40.49 | 13 | –2 | |
| National Party | 696,452 | 29.70 | 10 | 0 | |
| Colorado Party | 300,177 | 12.80 | 4 | 0 | |
| Open Cabildo | 268,736 | 11.46 | 3 | New | |
| Partido Ecologista Radical Intransigente | 33,461 | 1.43 | 0 | 0 | |
| Party of the People | 26,313 | 1.12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent Party | 23,580 | 1.01 | 0 | –1 | |
| Popular Unity | 19,728 | 0.84 | 0 | 0 | |
| Green Animalist Party | 19,392 | 0.83 | 0 | New | |
| Digital Party | 6,363 | 0.27 | 0 | New | |
| Workers' Party | 1,387 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | 88,399 | – | – | – | |
| Total | 2,433,364 | 100 | 30 | 0 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,699,978 | 90.13 | – | – | |
| Source: Corte Electoral; El País Archived 2020-01-17 at the Wayback Machine | |||||
Members
edit| Seat number | Senator | Party | Term | |||
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| From | To | Notes | ||||
| President of the Senate | José Mujica | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | 1 March 2020 | President from the beginning of the legislature until the inauguration of the Vice President. | |
| Beatriz Argimón | National Party | 1 March 2020 | She took office as Vice President of the Republic. | |||
| 1st. | José Mujica | Broad Front | 1 March 2020 | 20 October 2020 | He resigned due to suffering from an autoimmune disease and the COVID-19 pandemic.[13] | |
| Alejandro Sánchez | 20 October 2020 | |||||
| 2nd | Lucía Topolansky | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | 1 March 2022 | Resigned the seat to retire | |
| Sebastián Sabini | 2 March 2022 | Assumes seat after Topolansky's retirement | ||||
| 3rd | Eduardo Bonomi | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | 20 February 2022 | Died while in office | |
| Daniel Caggiani | 2 March 2022 | |||||
| 4th | Sandra Lazo | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 5th | Charles Carrera | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 6th | Mario Bergara | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 7th | Liliam Kechichián | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 8th | Enrique Rubio | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 9th | Amanda Della Ventura | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 10th | Óscar Andrade | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 11th | Carolina Cosse | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | 20 November 2020 | She resigned her seat to take office as Intendant of Montevideo | |
| Silvia Nane | 20 November 2020 | |||||
| 12th | Daniel Olesker | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 13th | José Carlos Mahía | Broad Front | 15 February 2020 | 1 March 2020 | He assumes as first substitute while Danilo Astori serves as Minister of Economy. | |
| Danilo Astori | 1 March 2020 | |||||
| 14th | Carmen Asiaín | National Party | 15 February 2020 | The holder was Luis Lacalle Pou but he took office as President of the Republic. The first substitute; Falero resigned when he was appointed Deputy Director of the Office of Planning and Budget. | ||
| 15th | Álvaro Delgado | National Party | 15 February 2020 | 1 March 2020 | He resigned when he was appointed Secretary of the Presidency of Uruguay. Amin Niffouri took over. | |
| Amin Niffouri | 1 March 2020 | |||||
| 16th | Graciela Bianchi | National Party | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 17th | Luis Alberto Heber | National Party | 15 February 2020 | 1 March 2020 | He resigned when he was appointed Minister of Transport and Public Works. | |
| Gustavo Penadés | 1 March 2020 | |||||
| 18th | Sergio Botana | National Party | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 19th | Gloria Rodríguez Santo | National Party | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 20th | Javier García | National Party | 15 February 2020 | 1 March 2020 | He resigned when he was appointed Minister of National Defense. | |
| Sergio Abreu | National Party | 1 March 2020 | ||||
| 21st | Jorge Larrañaga | National Party | 15 February 2020 | 1 March 2020 | He resigned when he was appointed Minister of the Interior. | |
| Carlos Camy | National Party | 1 March 2020 | ||||
| 22nd | Jorge Gandini | National Party | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 23rd | Juan Sartori | National Party | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 24th | Ernesto Talvi | Colorado Party | 15 February 2020 | 1 March 2020 | He resigned when he was appointed Minister of the Foreign Relations. | |
| Carmen Sanguinetti | 1 March 2020 | |||||
| 25th | Adrián Peña | Colorado Party | 15 February 2020 | 26 August 2020 | He resigned when he was appointed Minister of Environment. | |
| Pablo Lanz | 27 August 2020 | |||||
| 26th | Julio María Sanguinetti | Colorado Party | 15 February 2020 | 20 October 2020 | He resigned his seat.[14] | |
| Tabaré Viera | Colorado Party | 20 October 2020 | 23 August 2021 | He resigned when he was appointed Minister of Tourism | ||
| Raúl Batlle Lamuraglia | 23 August 2021 | |||||
| 27th | Germán Coutinho | Colorado Party | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 28th | Guido Manini Ríos | Open Cabildo | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 29th | Guillermo Domenech | Open Cabildo | 15 February 2020 | |||
| 30th | Irene Moreira | Open Cabildo | 15 February 2020 | 1 March 2020 | She resigned when he was appointed Minister of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment of Uruguay . | |
| Raúl Lozano | 1 March 2020 | 5 May 2023 | He was appointed Minister of Housing and Territorial Planning after the resignation of Irene Moreira | |||
| Irene Moreira | 8 May 2023 | After her resignation from the Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning, she returned to her seat | ||||
| Source: Members of the Senate | ||||||
References
edit- ^ "La asunción del nuevo Parlamento: así fue el inicio de la legislatura". El Observador. 2020-02-15.
- ^ "Asumieron diputados y senadores que ocuparán sus bancas durante los próximos cinco años". Presidencia de la República Oriental del Uruguay (in Spanish). 2020-02-15.
- ^ "Luis Lacalle Pou asume este domingo como presidente de los uruguayos". Presidencia de la República Oriental del Uruguay (in Spanish). 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Parlamento aprueba creación del Fondo Coronavirus". LARED21 (in Spanish). 2020-04-02. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ barias (2020-04-23). "LEY DE URGENTE CONSIDERACIÓN INGRESÓ AL PARLAMENTO". Parlamento del Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ ElPais. "El adiós de Mujica y Sanguinetti al Senado: del abrazo entre ellos al cariño de los funcionarios". Diario EL PAIS Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-21.
- ^ diaria, la (2020-10-19). "Mujica y Sanguinetti renuncian este martes a su banca en el Senado". la diaria (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-21.
- ^ barias (2020-12-15). "CLAUSURA DEL PRIMER PERÍODO DE LA XLIXª LEGISLATURA". Parlamento del Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
- ^ marbelo (2020-12-16). "CITACIÓN DE SENADO". Parlamento del Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
- ^ ElPais. "Parlamento convoca a sesión extraordinaria para legislar los anuncios que hizo Lacalle". Diario EL PAIS Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
- ^ ElPais. "Coalición aprueba límite a reuniones sin votos del FA; medida comienza a regir desde el lunes". Diario EL PAIS Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
- ^ de 2020, 19 de Diciembre. "El Parlamento uruguayo ratificó la ley impulsada por Lacalle Pou para cerrar las fronteras durante 20 días por el COVID-19". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Former President of Uruguay José 'Pepe' Mujica formalizes his resignation from the Senate and retires from politics". Retrieved 2020-10-21.
- ^ ElPais. "Así fue la despedida de Sanguinetti y Mujica en el Senado". Diario EL PAIS Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-21.