Pedro Bordaberry
| Pedro Bordaberry | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
28 April 1960 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Political party | Colorado Party |
| Spouse(s) | María José Oribe |
| Children | Pedro Agustín Matías |
| Website | Official website |
Juan Pedro Bordaberry Herrán (born April 28, 1960) is a Uruguayan political figure from the Colorado Party. He is the son of the former Uruguayan dictator Juan María Bordaberry
Bordaberry was educated at The British Schools of Montevideo, gaining fluency in English. He later studied law.
Bordaberry served as the Tourism minister in the government of President Jorge Batlle until 2005.
He was also appointed Industry and Energy minister (2002–2003) and Sports and Youth minister (2003–2004).
He also participated in the mayoral elections for Montevideo, but lost to Ricardo Ehrlich, of the Frente Amplio. Bordaberry got 26.9% of the vote; Ehrlich won with 60.9%. In this election, Bordaberry multiplied by three the votes that his party, the Colorado, had received in the October 2004 general election (See also: Domingo Bordaberry#Political heritage). Nevertheless, he was still 1% below Oscar Magurno's performance of May 2000 (the Colorado Party candidate for the mayoralty of Montevideo at the time).
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.
He is a son of Juan Maria Bordaberry, elected President of Uruguay in free elections in 1972 and former Dictator of Uruguay from 1973 to 1976, after closing Parliament. Since his father's arrest in 2006, in connection with the 1976 assassination of two legislators, Senator Zelmar Michelini and House leader Héctor Gutiérrez, Pedro Bordaberry has been vocal in his support.
Some observers would argue that it is natural for this state of affairs to have come about, and that it is unreasonable to expect Pedro Bordaberry not to defend his father. Others would argue that from a publicity perspective it is in the tactical political interests of the Broad Front, for Pedro Bordaberry, seen as one of the principal leaders of the opposition, to be identified in his public pronouncements with a controversial period in which he himself played no direct role.
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