The senator of the Uruguayan Assembly, and former vice president of the Republic, accountant Danilo Astori, will present his resignation from the Senate this Tuesday morning. It will be made effective through a letter that will be delivered to the president of the General Assembly, notary Beatriz Argimón. Among the arguments that the still senator uses are fundamentally the health problems that have kept him away from all public activity almost since the very beginning of the pandemic. His place will be assumed by the current substitute senator for that bench, José Carlos Mahía, who will occupy the bench for the rest of the term. Astori will not attend Parliament to present his resignation as senators José Mujica and Julio María Sanguinetti have done. In any case, and to comply with certain formalities, the resignation will have to be treated as a new matter on the agenda, in the plenary session of the Chamber of Senators, which is in session today precisely, starting at 9:30. Astori had assumed his bench in March 2020, but health reasons and the arrival of the pandemic prevented him from taking possession of the bench.
The news was confirmed to Diario La R by sources from the Broad Front. It is expected that after the resignation is presented, the legislator for the sector, José Carlos Mahía, will give statements to the press to answer questions about the decision made by Astori.
Astori, who is 82 years old, was Minister of Economy and Finance between 2005 and 2008, in the first government of Dr. Tabaré Vázquez. His deputy minister was today also Senator Mario Bergara. At that time he was a minister until he resumed the position of senator on September 18, 2008.
Between 2010 and 2015 he was Vice President of the Republic, while from 2015 to 2020 he was again Minister of Economy in the MEF. His stage in the Senate began in 1990, after he was a candidate for vice-presidency of the Republic in 1989, and the first headline on several of the lists presented by the FA.
In 1994 he decided to found the Uruguay Assembly sector, and with that group he headed a list that same year in the national elections, for the period 1995-2000. In those 1994 elections he was elected as senator for the Uruguay Assembly, and The same happened in the 1999 presidential elections.
With the resignation of Danilo Astori from the Senate, in recent years there are already several historical leaders who left their bench in the Legislative Palace. In addition to the fact that Eduardo Bonomi (Broad Front) died months ago, others who resigned were the former Vice President of the Republic, Lucía Topolansky and the former Presidents of the Republic, José Mujica and Julio María Sanguinetti, who left the Senate on October 20 of the year 2020.
