Uruguayan Jurists - Uruguayan Judges, Rafael Addiego Bruno, Eduardo Jimnez de Archaga, Eduardo Juan Couture, Ral Alonso de Marco (Paperback)

Chapters: Uruguayan Judges, Rafael Addiego Bruno, Eduardo Jimnez de Archaga, Eduardo Juan Couture, Ral Alonso de Marco. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rafael Addiego Bruno (born February 23, 1923) is a Uruguayan jurist and political figure . He was President of Uruguay February - March 1985 as an interim measure, following the resignation, and accession to office, respectively, of Presidents Gregorio lvarez and Julio Mara Sanguinetti. Addiego had been President of the Supreme Court since 1984 when the sitting President, General Gregorio lvarez, who did not look favourably on the candidacy of the Colorado Party's Sanguinetti and his subsequent election to the Presidency in November 1984, opted under pressure to resign in February, 1985. By 1985, there had been increasing divisions among members of the National Security Council, which had originally sponsored lvarez's appointment to the Presidency in 1981. In addition, Sanguinetti and his Colorado Party supporters felt they had strong reasons to seek to discredit lvarez in favour of their candidate. For both the (relatively) moderate members of the National Security Council and for Sanguinetti and his supporters, a mutually acceptable transitional figure was sought. Thus it was Addiego who briefly came to serve out the remainder of lvarez's expected term of office until President-elect Sanguinetti was sworn in at the beginning of March 1985. Defenders of the political arrangement whereby Addiego became President were able to point out that it enabled Sanguinetti to receive the transfer of office from a civilian (lvarez being a General). To international observers, the public relations aspect of what was billed as Uruguay's transition to democracy was enhanced by the increased psycholo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5170952