As of this Monday, the vice president, Carolina Cosse, will assume the Presidency of the Republic, and who follows her on the list, Blanca Rodríguez, will be the vice president and therefore president of the House of Senators.
The assumption of both women captured the attention of the international press.
This will be for a period of three days when President Yamandú Orsi remains out of the country, who left this early Monday 7 together with the Uruguayan Foreign Minister, Mario Lubetkin and a delegation of rice businessmen to Panama, in search of more markets.
Then the President and the Chancellor will move to Honduras, to go to the CELAC Summit (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States)