Ope Pasquet

Ope Pasquet
President of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay
In office
1 March 2022 – 1 March 2023
Preceded byAlfredo Fratti
Succeeded bySebastián Andújar
Representative of Uruguay
for Montevideo
Incumbent
Assumed office
15 February 2015
Secretary General of the Colorado Party of Uruguay
In office
4 April 2011 – 8 March 2012
Preceded byPedro Bordaberry
Succeeded byMartha Montaner
Senator of Uruguay
In office
15 February 2010 – 15 February 2015
Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations
In office
22 February 1988 – 1 March 1990
PresidentJulio María Sanguinetti
Personal details
Born
Ope Pasquet Iribarne

(1956-10-01) 1 October 1956 (age 68)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Political partyColorado Party
SpouseElena Martínez Rosso
Children2
Alma materUniversity of the Republic

Ope Pasquet Iribarne (born 10 January 1956) is a Uruguayan lawyer and politician of the Colorado Party.[1]

Political career

Pasquet is part of a generation of young politicians who began as opponents of the civic-military dictatorship (1973—85) and in the framework of the constitutional referendum of 1980 together with Enrique Tarigo. In 1984 they ran for the Chamber of Representatives for the Libertad y Cambio — List 85 sector, together with Luis Hierro López and Roberto Asiaín. The List obtained 5 seats, being the most voted party in Montevideo.

In 1988 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations by President Julio María Sanguinetti. In 2003 he founded the Open Batllismo sector in order to "rebuild the Colorado Party." In 2007 the group merged with Vamos Uruguay, a faction led by Bordaberry. In the 2009 general election he was elected Senator of the Republic for the 47th Legislature.[2] From April 4, 2011 to March 8, 2012, he served as Secretary General of the Colorado Party.[3]

In June 2013, during a parliamentary session remembering 40 years of the 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Pasquet brought forward the Colorado Party's need of self-criticism for its responsibility regarding these events.[4][5] In the 2014 general election he endorsed Bordaberry for president and was elected National Representative for Montevideo.[2] In 2015 he announced his departure from Vamos Uruguay, and said that the party lacked "political leadership".[6][2]

In 2018, Pasquet was a founding member of Ciudadanos, a faction of the Colorado Party led by Ernesto Talvi.[7] In the 2019 presidential primaries and general election, he endorsed Talvi for president and was re-elected National Representative.[8] In early February 2022, it was announced that Ope Pasquet would succeed Alfredo Fratti as president of the Chamber of Representatives during the 3rd session (2022).[9] He took office on March 1, and in his inaugural speech he stated that he would not set aside the "general criterion of prudence in spending".[10]

He is the promoter of a bill to legalize Euthanasia and Medically Assisted Suicide.[11]

Personal life

Pasquet is married to Elena Martínez Rosso, judge and minister of the Supreme Court of Justice.[12] They have two daughters Victoria and Florencia –who reached the semifinal of the fifth season of Got Talent Spain–.[13][14]

References

  1. ^ "Ope Pasquet and his activism" (in Spanish). El Espectador. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "Pasquet resolvió alejarse de Bordaberry - 30/07/2015 - EL PAÍS Uruguay". 2021-03-02. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  3. ^ "Ope Pasquet". Partido Colorado (in Spanish). 2016-04-23. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  4. ^ "Ope Pasquet and self-criticism" (in Spanish). EL PAIS. 2013-06-29. Archived from the original on 2013-07-01.
  5. ^ "El Espectador 810". espectador.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  6. ^ "Pasquet: Vamos Uruguay "no tiene actividad desde hace varios meses" - 30/07/2015 - EL PAÍS Uruguay". 2021-05-11. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  7. ^ diaria, la (2018-08-13). "Mañana se lanza oficialmente la precandidatura de Ernesto Talvi". la diaria (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  8. ^ ""Sorpresa": así tomaron la decisión de Talvi los integrantes del sector que lideró - Información - 27/07/2020 - EL PAÍS Uruguay". 2021-03-07. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  9. ^ "El colorado Ope Pasquet será el próximo presidente de la Cámara de Diputados". Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  10. ^ ElPais. "Tras asumir como presidente de Diputados, Ope Pasquet pidió "no empantanar" al país". Diario EL PAIS Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  11. ^ ElPais. "Legalizar la eutanasia gana adeptos entre los senadores y diputados blancos". Diario EL PAIS Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  12. ^ "Ministra Martínez Rosso se integró a la Suprema Corte y destacó el rol de las mujeres en la magistratura". www.poderjudicial.gub.uy (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  13. ^ "La uruguaya Florencia Pasquet conquistó al jurado del concurso "Got Talent España" - Tvshow - 24/09/2019 - EL PAÍS Uruguay". 2020-04-04. Archived from the original on 4 April 2020. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  14. ^ "La uruguaya Florencia Pasquet llega a semifinal de concurso "Got Talent" en España". Pantallazo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-03.