The National Council of Administration ( es, Consejo Nacional de Administración) was part of the
executive power in
Uruguay between 1919 and 1933, ruling alongside the
President of the Republic.
[The Constitution]
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The ''colegiado'' system was proposed by President
José Batlle y Ordóñez during his second term in office, with the aim of creating an executive body similar to the Swiss
Federal Council
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[ Batlle had been opposed to the ]presidential system
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, believing that a collegiate body would lower the risk of a dictatorship emerging.[ Although the proposal was unsuccessful in 1916, Batlle negotiated a compromise with the National Party to include the system in a new constitution approved in a 1917 referendum.][
The compromise provided for a president and a nine-member National Council of Administration, which consisted of six members of the winning party and also three from the runner-up party.][ The president was responsible for foreign affairs, national security and agriculture, whilst the NCA oversaw the budget, education, healthcare, industry, industrial relations, labour, livestock and public works.][ The National Council of Administration had a chairman distinct from the president, making Uruguay the second Latin american country, after Peru, to have a prime minister with the adoption of the 1917 constitution.
Although the new system worked well in its early years, in the early 1930s a series of conflicts involving the council and the president led to a presidential coup by Gabriel Terra in 1933. A new constitution was drawn up, which abolished the National Council of Administration.][
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Presidents of the National Council
*Feliciano Viera
Feliciano Alberto Viera Borges (8 November 1872 – 13 November 1927) was a Uruguayan political figure.
Background
He was a member of the Colorado Party and closely identified with the liberal former president José Batlle y Ordóñez, who l ...
(1919–1921)
* José Batlle y Ordóñez (1921–1923, 1927–1928)
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(1923–1925)
* Luis Alberto de Herrera (1925–1927)
*Luis Carlos Caviglia
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(1928–1929)
*Baltasar Brum
Baltasar Brum Rodríguez, GCTE (18 June 1883 – 31 March 1933) was a Uruguayan political figure. He was President of Uruguay from 1919 to 1923.
Background
His political convictions closely followed those of liberal President José Batlle y Ord ...
(1929–1931)
*Juan Pedro Fabini
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(1931–1933)
*Antonio Rubio Pérez
Antonio Rubio Pérez ( Soriano, 1882 – 28 November 1953) was a Uruguayan journalist and politician.
He briefly served as President of the National Council of Administration in 1933. He served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Uru ...
(March 1933)
Notable visitors
* In December 1928, US President-elect Herbert Hoover addressed the National Council of Administration during his trip through Latin America.
See also
* Checks and balances
* National Council of Government
References
Collective heads of state
History of Uruguay
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