Luis Lacalle Pou

Luis Alberto Aparicio Alejandro Lacalle Pou, born on August 11, 1973, is a prominent Uruguayan politician and lawyer who made history by serving as the 42nd president of Uruguay from 2020 to 2025. The son of former president Luis Alberto Lacalle, he pursued his education at The British Schools of Montevideo and graduated with a law degree from the Catholic University of Uruguay in 1998.

A dedicated member of the National Party, Lacalle Pou began his political career in the Chamber of Representatives, where he was elected in the 1999 election as a National Representative for the Canelones Department, serving from 2000 to 2015. He later held the position of Senator from 2015 to 2019 and chaired the lower house of the General Assembly during the first session of the 47th Legislature.

In 2014, he made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency, but five years later, he triumphed in the 2019 general election against the Broad Front nominee, Daniel Martínez, securing fifty point seventy-nine percent of the vote in the second round. At the age of forty-six, he ended a fifteen-year period of leftist governance, becoming the youngest president since the end of the dictatorship in 1985.

Throughout his presidency, Lacalle Pou implemented significant reforms in retirement and pension laws, as well as the education system. His administration's effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic garnered him high approval ratings, with nearly half of the population supporting his leadership as of September 2023. Notably, he introduced the