Danilo Ángel Astori Saragosa (born April 23, 1940) is a

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

an retired

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politician who served as the 15th

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from 2010 to 2015 under 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 ...

. A member of

Uruguay Assembly The Uruguay Assembly (''Asamblea Uruguay'') is a social-democratic political party in Uruguay. It is a member organisation of the Broad Front. Its leader is the senator and former economy minister of Uruguay, Danilo Astori. Nowadays it forms ...

– Broad Front, he also served as Minister of Economy and Finance from 2005 to 2008 and from 2015 to 2020, and as

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from 1990 to 2005. Astori was born and raised in Montevideo. He completed his primary and secondary studies at the Liceo y Colegio Maturana located in ''

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'' Bella Vista. In 1958 he enrolled in the Faculty of Economics of the

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, and in 1963 he graduated as a public accountant and economist. After graduating, he began working with the then deputy minister of livestock and leader of the National Party,

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. He served as a professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of the Republic, of which he was named dean in 1973, being the youngest person to hold the position. Since 1983, during the civic-military dictatorship, he conducted a radio audition entitled "Análisis Económicos". He also dabbled in written journalism, participating in the weeklies ''Aquí'' and '' Brecha''.

Political career

At the age of 23, he began working with Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, being in charge of the Office of Agricultural Policy and Programming (OPYPA), while Ferreira Aldunate was vice minister of the Ministry of Livestock and Agriculture. The founding of OPYPA was part of the establishment of the indicative planning process in Uruguay and, among other products, generated the first National Plan for Agricultural Development. In 1989 he ran for Vice President of the Republic, as

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's running mate, finishing in third place with 20.35%. He was also in the first place of all the ballots for the Senate, being elected Senator of the Republic for the 43rd Legislature. In 1994 he founded

, a faction within the Broad Front, for which he was re-elected senator in the

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and

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. In 2005, with the inauguration of

Tabaré Vázquez Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas (; ''Vázquez Rosas'' locally ; 17 January 19406 December 2020) was a Uruguayan politician who served as the 41st president of Uruguay from 2015 to 2020. He previously served from 2005 to 2010 as the 39th presiden ...

, the first president of the Broad Front, Astori was appointed Minister of Economy and Finance. On September 18, 2008, he resigned from the Cabinet post and returned to his Senate seat, which he had re-won in the 2004 election. In the 2009 presidential primaries, he was a pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, but was defeated by

. However, Mujica named him his running mate, and the presidential formula won the runoff of the October general election. In December 2014, after the election of Tabaré Vazquez again as president, Astori was appointed Minister of Economy and Finance. In 2019 Astori was elected a senator for the 49th Legislature. The presidential candidate of the Broad Front Daniel Martínez proposed him as Minister of Foreign Relations in a possible government. In November 2022, he resigned from the Senate due to health problems.

Policies

Astori followed a

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policy, but allowing increases in

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and

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spending. He has been a supporter of

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s with the

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, the

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, the

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and

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, with the

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an "open regionalism" as a model.Astori follows Chile's "open regionalism"
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References

External links

Danilo Astori's virtual office
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