After Adrian Pena resigned from his position as Minister of the Environment after admitting that He lied that he had a degree in Business Administration and then with the fact that he could process his title, the government accepted the new name proposed by Ciudadanos, the colorado sector of today’s ex-hierarch: Robert Bouvier, vice president of Antel.
Born in Minas in 1966, a public accountant and UTE official, Bouvier started out as a member of the Colorado party by the hand of Santiago de Brum. It was mayor of Lavalleja from 1993 and for three periods and joined the sector citizens since its creation under the leadership of Ernesto Talvi.
He was a candidate for deputy for Lavalleja, for the list 600, position to which he was unable to access. In 2020, he became Vice President of Antel.
Bouvier has an experience of more than ten years in the stateperforming functions in UTE and Ancap. In politics, he started out on List 15, then formed his own group and was also part of Let’s go uruguaylead by Pedro Bordaberry.
It was, moreover, advisor to the bench of the Colorado Party in tax matters and also directory of UTE and the State Insurance Bank.
After almost three years as vice president of Antel, Bouvier was chosen by Ciudadanos to replace Peña for his “management in politics” and his “training in management”assured the Colorado deputy Philip Schipani in an interview with Desayunos Informales (Channel 12).
The legislator assured that the leader of Lavalleja He has “enormous political experience”, to which he adds his “management experience” after his work at UTE, Ancap and Antel. On this last charge, he highlighted the “big tandem” that he generated with the president of the organization, Gabriel Gurmendez.
In addition, he appreciated that Bouvier He has a “great ability to build teams” and “listen to those who know”. The Colorado leader remarked that the new minister should “surround” himself with the “excellent advisors” that Ambiente has to develop their work.
Bouvier’s replacement in Antel
Both Schipani and the also member of Ciudadanos and president of the Chamber of Deputies, Ope Pasquet, affirmed that Peña will take a license to finish his careerand then he will take the position in the Chamber of Senators of Paul Lanzhis deputy in Parliament.
Schipani admitted that In an “informal conversation” he asked Lanz to take the position of Bouvier as vice president of Antel, but said that the legislator did not have a positive response.
According to the deputy, this position today vacant is “for someone who has no aspirations of running a political campaign” in the next elections, something he understands keeps Lanz from office. “He is a political leader”defined.
