Nelson Adrián Peña Robaina (born 20 January 1976) is a Uruguayan businessman and politician of the Colorado Party. He served as the first Minister of the Environment from August 27, 2020 to January 30, 2023. He has been in politics since he was 13 years old, but it was only in 2009 that he decided to head a political project in his department. A native of the town of

San Bautista San Bautista is a small city in the Canelones Department of southern Uruguay. San Bautista is also the name of the municipality to which the city belongs. Location The city is located on the intersection of Route 6 with Route 81, about north ...

, Peña is dedicated to the business of raising and distributing poultry.

Early life and education

Peña is from

. He started his career in the

Poultry industry Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food. Poultry – mostly chickens – are farmed in great numbers. More than 60 billion chicke ...

Political career

In 1994, he began his political career attached to Lista 15 de Canelones, in support of Jorge Batlle. In the 2004 election, he supported the candidacy for the presidency of

Guillermo Stirling Guillermo Stirling (born 1937) is a Uruguayan notary and political figure. Background and political alignment Stirling is a prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party. He has been a close colleague of Presidents Julio María Sanguinetti a ...

, and in 2008 he joined the "Batllismo Unido" faction of the Department of Canelones and "Vamos Uruguay". In 2009 he was elected National and Departmental Conventional in the presidential primaries. That year he was also elected a member of the Departmental Executive Committee of the Colorado Party in Canelones. In August 2009, he joined a new political group, with the aim of renewing the Colorado Party in Canelones. In October, he was a candidate for National Representative for List 11, supporting Pedro Bordaberry's candidacy for the

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

. In the 2014 presidential primaries, his political group was the winner within the Colorado Party. In the

general election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

, he was elected National Representative for Canelones, for the 48th Legislature. In November 2014 he was unanimously elected General Secretary of the Colorado Party in Canelones and in December 2014, he was elected a titular member of the National Executive Committee of the Colorado Party. On May 31, 2017, he was elected General Secretary of the Colorado Party. In 2018 he founded, together with the Economist

Ernesto Talvi Ernesto Talvi Pérez (born June 10, 1957 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan economist. He served as Minister of Foreign Relations of Uruguay from 1 March to 6 July 2020. Early life Born to a Macedonian-born father and a Cuban mother, both of Sephardi ...

, "Ciudadanos" political group within the PC. In the 2019 general election, he supported Talvi's candidacy for President of the Republic. In it, he was elected Senator.

Minister of Environment

On July 18, 2020, his appointment as the first Minister of the Environment was confirmed, when the portfolio was separated from the Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning. He took office on August 27 in

Aguas Corrientes Aguas Corrientes is a small town in the Canelones Department of southern Uruguay. Its name (''running waters'') is derived from the installations of pumping, filtration and purification of water from the Santa Lucia River, which is the largest in ...

. In a January 2021 interview, he described GMO crops and sustainable agriculture as priorities, alongside improving drinking water quality and water management. Source: He resigned as the Minister of Environment on January 30, 2023 after it was discovered he lied about his title in Business Administration.

References

External links

Andrés Peña's virtual office
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