Manuel Juan Washington Abdala Remerciari, aka el Turco (born 8 September 1959, in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan lawyer and politician. He was a National Representative for the Colorado Party from 1995 till 2010. In 2000, with

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elected President of the Republic, Abdala was appointed

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, and he served from 2000 to 2001. Lately he is devoted to

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and

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shows.

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