1. Pedro Bordaberry previously served in the same position 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.
24 Facts About Pedro Bordaberry
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Pedro 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'etat, dissolving the General Assembly and initiated the civil-military dictatorship.
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Pedro Bordaberry attended primary school at St Andrews School, and secondary school at The British Schools and John XXIII Institute.
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Pedro Bordaberry enrolled at the University of the Republic, from which he graduated in 1986 with a law degree.
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Pedro Bordaberry served as a professor for the University of the Republic from 1986 until 1991 and for the Universidad ORT Uruguay from 1995 until 2000.
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Pedro 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.
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Sometime after his defeat in the municipal elections, Pedro Bordaberry left the Lista 15 faction, and in 2007 he founded the Vamos Uruguay faction.
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In 2009, Pedro Bordaberry was selected as the Colorado Party's candidate for the presidential election.
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On 21 March 2009, Pedro Bordaberry was formally accepted as presidential candidate for Vamos Uruguay at a ceremony in a stadium in Montevideo attended by an estimated 7,000 supporters.
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In June 2009, Pedro Bordaberry paused his work for the legal practice at which he had been active to focus on the presidential campaign.
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In June 2009, Pedro Bordaberry was publicly criticised by Colorado Party colleague Luis Antonio Hierro Lopez, a previous ministerial colleague running for president, due to his surname.
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Pedro Bordaberry endorsed Luis Alberto Lacalle for the second round run-off vote that took place at the end of November 2009.
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On 9 November 2013, Pedro Bordaberry officially launched his presidential campaign for the 2014 presidential primaries.
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Pedro Bordaberry hired campaign advisers who had worked for Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
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In early 2010 Pedro Bordaberry called for the establishment of a new university in the interior city of Durazno, with a view to assisting disadvantaged potential students.
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In 2017 Pedro Bordaberry said he would not run again for president or senator in 2019.
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Pedro Bordaberry confirmed that the Vamos Uruguay sector would cover electoral lists 29 and 2000 led by Gabriel Gurmendez and Tabare Viera, respectively.
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Juan Maria Pedro Bordaberry was arrested in 2006 in connection with the 1976 assassination of two legislators, Senator Zelmar Michelini and House Leader Hector Gutierrez.
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Pedro Bordaberry sometimes participates in outdoor public meetings on horseback, or in traditional "gaucho" horseriding attire.
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Pedro Bordaberry has contributed to literary criticism of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, writing on Borges's theme of the complexity of memory.
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Pedro Bordaberry was put in charge, alongside politician Armando Castaingdebat, and former professional association football player Andres Scotti.
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Pedro Bordaberry married psychologist and psychotherapist Maria Jose Oribe in 1985.
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On 15 March 2020, Pedro Bordaberry announced that he had contacted COVID-19, making him one of the first people in Uruguay to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pedro Bordaberry is the author of a number of publications, including his books The Principle of Irretroactivity of the Rules in the Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Justice, Ten Years of Seven, Stories from Pueblo Faro by Jose Ignacio and Let Them Deny Me.