Pedro Bordaberry

On 21 August 2018, FIFA appointed a normalisation committee for the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF). Three persons were put in charge: Bordaberry, politician Armando Castaingdebat, and former professional association football player Andrés Scotti.

In 2017, Bordaberry said that he would not run again for President or Senator in 2019. Then, after the 2019 internal elections were over and Ernesto Talvi had been confirmed as the Colorado presidential candidate, Bordaberry once again explored the possibility of re-running for Senator; but after much opposition from the rest of the Party authorities, he declined.

Bordaberry is running for President in the 2014 elections. With that campaign in mind he hired the same advisors who used to work for Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

In early 2010 Bordaberry was advocating the establishment of a new University in the interior's city of Durazno, with a view to assisting disadvantaged potential students.

Presidential election year 2009 opened with Bordaberry easily maintaining his position as the Colorado Party's front runner in the polls.

With the Presidential poll due to take place in the autumn of 2009, it remained to be seen, however, whether Bordaberry could successfully translate his support within his party into broader electoral support among voters dissatisfied with the Frente Amplio government.

In June 2009 Bordaberry set aside working for the legal practice in which he had been active. This action of the candidate was taken as a further sign of the increasing confidence which was surrounding Bordaberry's Presidential ambitions.

On the economic front, facing the inauguration of the Obama Administration in the US, Bordaberry cautioned that a greater degree of protectionism on the part of US officials will be encountered against Uruguayan business leaders seeking to export their goods to the US; Bordaberry's comments were in line with the theme of the resurgence of US protectionism taken up at the Davos World Economic Forum in January / February 2009. The Frente Amplio government's omitting, for internal caucus reasons, to seek a trade agreement with the US during the more fortuitous Bush Administration was thought likely to arise as an issue during the 2009 Presidential elections.

In August 2009 Bordaberry expressed strong reservations about the working of the Mercosur trade pact, holding instead that the Chilean model of pursuing bilateral trade pacts is preferable for Uruguay. Bordaberry's comments came at a time of continuing, difficult relations with Argentina over trade issues.

As Bordaberry's campaign gathered pace, in June 2009 he was the subject of public criticism on the part of Colorado Party colleague Luis Antonio Hierro López, also running for President, on account of his surname.

Shortly afterward, Bordaberry endorsed his former rival Luis Alberto Lacalle for the run-off vote, scheduled for the end of November 2009, since no candidate attained more than 50% of the vote in the first round.

Bordaberry was elected to the Uruguayan Senate in 2009.

Polls in 2008 showed that Bordaberry by a huge margin was the candidate best placed to gain his party's nomination for the Uruguayan Presidential elections in 2009 .

In May 2008 Pedro Bordaberry received death threats while in the Pocitos district of Montevideo . An unstable or enraged individual was sought in connection with the incident.

In 2008 Bordaberry called on Interior Minister Daisy Tourné to resign. This call followed Bordaberry's publicly expressed doubts about what he claimed was Tourné's lack of commitment to her ministerial responsibility for security issues; the criticism was rejected by Tourné. However, Ms. Tourné did eventually resign in 2009 following some public gaffes relating to other prominent Opposition figures.

Bordaberry has entered into controversy regarding some of the foreign official trips which President Tabaré Vázquez has undertaken. For example, he has been critical of President Vázquez for choosing to be in Cuba at a June 2008 commemoration - which Mr. Vázquez himself initiated - of the victims of the civilian-military administration, although the role of Mr. Bordaberry Senior was also relevant to the events commemorated.

In 2007, following a well-attended meeting of supporters in Trinidad, Uruguay, Pedro Bordaberry formed a new group in the Colorado Party. This group is called "Vamos Uruguay" (variously translated "Let's go Uruguay" or 'Come on, Uruguay') [1].

(Bordaberry had in effect split with the Lista 15, shortly after the municipal elections of May 2005, with which he had previously been identified.)

He also participated in the mayoral elections for Montevideo, but lost to Ricardo Ehrlich, of the Frente Amplio. Bordaberry got 26.9% of the vote; Ehrlich won with 60.9%. In this election, Bordaberry multiplied by three the votes that his party, the Colorado, had received in the October 2004 general election (See also: Domingo Bordaberry#Political heritage). Nevertheless, he was still 1% below Oscar Magurno's performance of May 2000 (the Colorado Party candidate for the mayoralty of Montevideo at the time).

Guillermo Stirling, the former Colorado Party candidate for the Presidency in 2004, was in 2008 seen as close to Bordaberry, rather than to former Vice President of Uruguay Luis Antonio Hierro López, also thought to be a likely candidate, but trailing considerably in polls thought to be broadly accurate.

Bordaberry served in the government of President Jorge Batlle as Minister of Industry and Energy (2002–2003) and Minister of Tourism and Sports (2003–2005).

However, there have been occasions when aspiring and rising politicians have died in mysterious circumstances, notably Villanueva Saravia in 1998 .

Within Uruguayan political culture more broadly, Bordaberry's rapid rise as a charismatic aspirant to national leadership, with his strong political and family roots in the country's interior and its latent 'gaucho liberator' folklore, is comparable to the rise of other charismatic leaders in recent and more distant Uruguayan history. These include Villanueva Saravia in the 1990s, but also some of Uruguay's populist political leaders of the 19th century during the tumultuous Independence and Civil War periods.

Political violence in Uruguay has subsided particularly since the departure of the civilian-military administration of 1973-1985.

He is a son of Juan Maria Bordaberry, former President of Uruguay from 1972 to 1976. His father led a self-coup in 1973 and closed down the legislature, starting a civic-military dictatorship that lasted until 1985. Since his father's arrest in 2006, in connection with the 1976 assassination of two legislators, Senator Zelmar Michelini and House leader Héctor Gutiérrez, Pedro Bordaberry has been vocal in his support.

Juan Pedro Bordaberry Herrán (born 28 April 1960) is a Uruguayan political figure from the Colorado Party. He was Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining from 2002 to 2003, Minister of Tourism and Sports from 2003 to 2005, and senator from 2010 to 2020.