Armando Castaingdebat Colombo (born 25 October 1959 in

Trinidad, Uruguay Trinidad () is the capital city of Flores in southern Uruguay. It has a population of 21,429 (National Census 2011). Formerly it was called ''Santísima Trinidad de los Porongos,'' or simply ''Porongos.'' Its inhabitants are known as trinitarios o ...

) is a

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an veterinarian and political figure of the National Party. Graduating from the

University of the Republic The University of the Republic ( es, Universidad de la República, sometimes ''UdelaR'') is Uruguay's oldest public university. It is by far the country's largest university, as well as the second largest public university in South America and t ...

with a Doctorate of

Veterinary Medicine Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutri ...

, he has been a member of the National Party since the late 1980s. A significant factor in the political work of Castaingdebat is the sizeable agricultural interests which are present in the economic and labour-related life of

Flores Department Flores () is a department of Uruguay, positioned in the southwest of the central part of the country. Its capital is Trinidad. It borders Durazno Department to the north and east, Florida Department to the southeast, San José Department to the so ...

Political career

In the 2005 municipal elections, Walter Echeverría was elected Intendant of

Flores Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. Including the Komodo Islands off its west coast (but excluding the Solor Archipelago to the east of Flores), the land area is 15,530.58 km2, and th ...

, however, he died before he took office. Therefore, Castaingdebat took over as the first substitute. He was reelected to the office in the 2010 election. He served as President of the

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between 2013 and 2014. He was nominated for the Chamber of Representatives for the 48th Legislature in the 2014 general election, being elected. He assumed as National Representative on February 15, 2015. Castaingdebat is Intendent (Spanish: 'Intendente') of the

. By a large margin, this is the most sparsely populated of the country's 19 departments. After

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's victory in the 2019 general election, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Social Development, accompanied by

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, who serves as Minister. On May 3, 2021, he resigned from his post, after his son-in-law,

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, took office as minister.

Other activities

In the University Elections of the University of the Republic, held on May 4, 2016, he was elected as a substitute in the Cloister of the Veterinary School in the order of graduates and under the slogan ''Corriente Gremial Universitaria - Egresados''. On 21 August 2018, FIFA appointed a normalisation committee for the

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(AUF). Three persons were put in charge: Castaingdebat, Senator

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, and former professional association football player

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External links

Armando Castaingdebat's virtual office
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Political career

Other activities

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