Armando Irineo Castaingdebat Colombo (born 25 October 1959) is a

Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...

an politician who served as Minister of National Defense from March 4, 2024 to March 1, 2025 under President

Luis Lacalle Pou Luis Alberto Aparicio Alejandro Lacalle Pou (, ; born 11 August 1973), is a Uruguayan politician and lawyer, who served as the 42nd president of Uruguay from 2020 to 2025. The son of former president Luis Alberto Lacalle, Lacalle Pou attended ...

. A member of the National Party, he previously served as Deputy Minister of Social Development from 2020 to 2021, as National Representative from 2015 to 2020 and as Intendant of the

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from 2005 to 2014. Graduated from the University of the Republic with a veterinary medicine degree, he has been a member of the National Party since the late 1980s. A significant factor in his political career has been the sizeable agricultural interests which are present in the economic and labour-related life of

Political career

In the 2005 municipal elections, Walter Echeverría was elected Intendant of

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, however, he died before he took office. Therefore, Castaingdebat took over as the first substitute. He was reelected to the office in the 2010 election. He served as President of the National Congress of Intendants between 2013 and 2014. He was elected for the Chamber of Representatives for the 48th Legislature in the 2014 general election. Castaingdebat is Intendent (Spanish: 'Intendente') of the

. By a large margin, this is the most sparsely populated of the country's 19 departments. After

's victory in the 2019 general election, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Social Development, accompanied by Pablo Bartol, who serves as Minister. On May 3, 2021, he resigned from his post, after his son-in-law,

Martín Lema Martín Alejandro Lema Perretta (born September 6, 1982) is a Uruguayan lawyer and politician of the National Party (Uruguay), National Party, serving as Senator of the Republic in the 50th Legislature of the Chamber of Senators of Uruguay, 50th L ...

, took office as minister.

Other activities

In the University Elections of the University of the Republic, held on May 4, 2016, he was elected as a substitute in the Cloister of the Veterinary School in the order of graduates and under the slogan ''Corriente Gremial Universitaria - Egresados''. On 21 August 2018, FIFA appointed a normalisation committee for the

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(AUF). Three persons were put in charge: Castaingdebat, Senator

Pedro Bordaberry Juan Pedro Bordaberry Herrán (born 28 April 1960) is a Uruguayan attorney, lecturer, and politician, serving as Senate of Uruguay, Senator of the Republic since 2025. He previously served in the same position from 2010 to 2020, as Ministry of To ...

, and former professional association football player

Andrés Scotti Andrés Scotti Ponce de León (born 14 December 1975) is a Uruguayan former professional footballer who played as centre-back and rarely as left-back. Between 2006 and 2013, he made 40 appearances and scored one goal for the Uruguay national t ...

Personal life

He has three children, including politician Armando Castaingdebat Ramírez and Florencia Castaingdebat,

's wife.

References

External links

Armando Castaingdebat's virtual office
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Political career

Other activities

Personal life

See also

References

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