Rafael Addiego Bruno
| Rafael Addiego | |
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President of Uruguay Acting |
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In office February 12, 1985 – March 1, 1985 |
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| Preceded by | Gregorio Álvarez |
| Succeeded by | Julio María Sanguinetti |
| Minister of the Supreme Court of Uruguay | |
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In office 1984–1993 |
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| Nominated by | Gregorio Álvarez |
| Preceded by | José Pedro Gatto de Souza |
| Succeeded by | Juan Mariño Chiarlone |
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| Born |
February 23, 1923 Salto, Uruguay |
| Died | February 20, 2014 (aged 90) Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Political party | Civic Union |
| Spouse(s) | Alicia Rey Nebril |
| Alma mater | University of the Republic |
| Occupation |
Jurist Politician |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Rafael Addiego Bruno (February 23, 1923 – February 20, 2014) was a Uruguayan jurist and political figure.
He was President of Uruguay, as an interim chief executive, between February and March 1985 and between the resignation of Gregorio Álvarez and accession to office of Julio María Sanguinetti.
Addiego had been president of the Supreme Court since 1984 when the sitting president, General Gregorio Álvarez, 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 Álvarez's appointment to the presidency in 1981. In addition, Sanguinetti and his Colorado Party supporters felt they had strong reasons to seek to discredit Álvarez 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 Álvarez'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 (Álvarez 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 psychological distance between Sanguinetti and Álvarez. Sceptics were able to recall that since Juan María Bordaberry's 1973 coup, which had led to the increased involvement of the Uruguayan military in the government, various of the so-called 'Military Government' Presidents - Bordaberry, Demicheli and Méndez, were in fact civilians, and it had been the military-backed National Security Council in any case which had cooperated with the November 1984 Presidential elections. Furthermore, it is an undoubted fact that many members of Sanguinetti's Colorado party supported rule by decree, both in the preceding 12 years and, indeed, during the extra-parliamentary régime of Gabriel Terra during the 1930s.
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