Roberto Kreimerman (

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, 1958) is a

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an engineer and politician. He graduated in Chemical Engineering from the

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. Afterwards he got a postgraduate degree from the

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. A member of the Broad Front, during 2010-2014 he served as Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining in the cabinet of President

José Mujica José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano (; born 20 May 1935) is a Uruguayan politician, former revolutionary and farmer who served as the 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former guerrilla with the Tupamaros, he was tortured and impr ...

. As of 2019, Kreimerman left the Broad Front and joined Popular Unity, running for a Senate seat in the

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