Tag: Lucia Topolansky

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2022 - 20:06 UTC

  Former VP Lucía Topolansky resigns seat on Uruguayan Senate after 22 years

  

  Former Uruguayan Vice President Lucía Topolansy Wednesday turned in her resignation to her seat on the Senate through a letter after 22 years of Parliamentarian services.

• Friday, December 6th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Paraguay takes the chair of a quarrelsome strained Mercosur

  

  Brazil on Thursday handed over the six-month rotating presidency of the Mercosur trade bloc (Southern Common Market) to Paraguay. During a ceremony at the bloc's 55th summit in Bento Goncalves, Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro expressed confidence in his Paraguayan counterpart Mario Abdo Benitez and his leadership skills.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Uruguay president announces a malignant growth in his right lung: it was detected on time, says personal doctor

  

  Uruguay’s President Tabare Vazquez announced on Tuesday that doctors detected a likely malignant growth in his right lung during a routine checkup. Vazquez, a 79-year-old former oncologist, said he would likely be hospitalized for a day or two while he undergoes additional exams to reach a definitive diagnosis.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Uruguayan president caught on the wrong foot forced to sack six generals and minister of Defense

  

  Uruguay’s president has been involved in an embarrassing incident which forced him on Monday to remove the commander in chief of the army, the Defense Chief of Staff and four other generals for allegedly covering up that a retired member of the military committed a crime during the 1973-1985 dictatorship.

• Wednesday, September 13th 2017 - 18:01 UTC

  Mujica's wife Lucia Topolansky becomes Uruguay's vice-president

  

  Uruguay has a new vice-president following the resignation of the questioned and discredited Raul Sendic. On Wednesday mid-morning, Lucia Topolansky, wife of ex president Jose Mujica received unanimous support from the General Assembly (123/123). Under the Uruguayan constitution the head of the most voted Senate group of the winning party in the last election, in this case the MPP (Popular Participation Movement), leads in the presidential succession line. She is the first woman to occupy such a post.

• Saturday, September 9th 2017 - 20:04 UTC

  Uruguay's vice-president resigns; Mujica's wife expected to assume

  

  Uruguayan Vice president, and head of the Senate, Raul Sendic has stepped down after presenting his “indeclinable” resignation to the ruling coalition plenary and to president Tabare Vazquez, quelling what was becoming a major political and institutional situation given his long string of misconducts, some of them precisely questioned by an ethics tribunal from the coalition.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2015 - 07:35 UTC

  Mujica wishes Argentina and Macri 'the best', but has fears about 'institutional stability'

  

  Two days after Mauricio Macri's victory in Argentina, Uruguay's former president Jose Mujica wished Argentina “the best” with its new government, but also expressed fear about the 'institutional stability' of the country.

• Monday, May 11th 2015 - 08:47 UTC

  Uruguay's local elections: no major number surprises but interesting changes in the political map

  

  Uruguay Sunday's department and municipal elections resulted mostly as forecasted with no major surprises, and as advanced by MP 9 May, in the capital Montevideo, with half the country's electorate, the two promising candidates have effectively been the elected mayor, Daniel Martinez and Edgardo Novick, a successful businessman and non political figure, who now becomes head of the opposition.

• Saturday, May 9th 2015 - 10:21 UTC

  On Sunday 2.6 million Uruguayans vote for their local authorities

  

  On Sunday May 10, Uruguay is holding county and municipal elections with 2.6 million eligible voters (out of a population of 3.3m) in an event which will be more centered on local issues and thus will not necessarily replicate the absolute majority vote of the ruling coalition in last October/November presidential and legislative election.

• Saturday, January 3rd 2015 - 06:42 UTC

  Mujica's wife will run for mayor of Montevideo, Uruguay's main electoral base

  

  Senator Lucia Topolansky, the wife of outgoing Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, will run for mayor of Montevideo in the May 2015 elections, representatives of the governing centre leftist Broad Front coalition announced this week.