General Assembly of Uruguay Asamblea General de Uruguay | |
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| 50th Legislature of the Chamber of Senators 50th Legislature of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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| Houses | Chamber of Senators Chamber of Deputies |
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| Seats | 129 members 99 deputies 30 senators |
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Senate political groups | Government (16)
Opposition (14)
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Chamber of Representatives political groups | Government (48)
Opposition (51)
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| Elections | |
| Proportional representation | |
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LastSenate election | 27 October 2024 |
LastChamber of Representatives election | 27 October 2024 |
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| Palacio Legislativo,Montevideo | |
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TheGeneral Assembly of Uruguay (Spanish:Asamblea General de Uruguay) is thebicamerallegislature of the government ofUruguay, and consists of two chambers: theChamber of Senators and theChamber of Representatives. General Assembly has 130 voting members: 99 representatives and 30 senators, theVice President of the Republic, who serves as President of the General Assembly, and the Senate has the right to vote. The legislature meets in theLegislative Palace inMontevideo. Both senators and representatives are chosen throughproportional representation for five-year terms.[1]
The General Assembly holds its sessions in the Chamber of Representatives of the Legislative Palace. During the 19th century, the legislature met in theMontevideo Cabildo.
In 1828, on the initiative ofJuan Antonio Lavalleja, delegates were elected to what was to be the Parliament of the Eastern Province of Río de la Plata. As a consequence of theTreaty of Montevideo, such institution became the General Constituent and Legislative Assembly of the State, and had among other tasks the drafting of the country's firstConstitution.[2]
The Assembly was unicameral. But since the establishment of the Constitution in 1830, the Uruguayan Parliament became bicameral, and has remained so to this day. The voting system of its members also changed: during the 19th century, voting was reserved for a minority, and senators represented departments. Later, the secret and universal vote was established, and the representativeness of the senators, who are elected at the national level, was reformulated.[3]
The ordinary sessions span is from March 1 to December 15, or until September 15 in the event that elections are held, since the new Assembly must begin its sessions on February 15 of the following year.[4]
Article Ninety of the Uruguayan Constitution requires that members of the Chamber of Representatives must be aged at least 25 and have been a citizen of Uruguay for five years.[5] While Article Ninety-eight requires that the members of the Senate must be at least 30 years old and have been Uruguayan citizens for seven years.[6]
The General Assembly is entitled to politically judge the conduct of the Ministers of State, to declare war and to approve or reject peace treaties, alliances, commerce, and conventions or contracts of any nature that the Executive Power enters into with foreign powers and designate every year the necessary armed force, as well as allowing foreign troops to enter the country. Denying or granting the departure of national forces outside the nation is also among the functions of the Assembly. The creation of newDepartments, the setting of their limits, as well as the establishment of customs and export and import duties concern the legislative power, in addition to other functions established in Article Eighty-Five of the Constitution.[7]
As a result of the high number of small parties not meeting theelectoral threshold to obtain representation in theSenate, the Broad Front won 16 of the 30 seats despite not achieving a majority of the valid votes. On the other hand, no coalition secured a majority in theChamber of Representatives.[8] The blank and invalid votes represented almost 5% and more than 100,000 votes, a record high.
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| Party | Presidential candidate | First round | Second round | Seats | |||||||
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Chamber | +/– | Senate | +/– | ||||
| Broad Front | Yamandú Orsi | 1,071,826 | 46.12 | 1,212,833 | 52.00 | 48 | +6 | 16 | +3 | ||
| National Party | Álvaro Delgado | 655,426 | 28.20 | 1,119,537 | 48.00 | 29 | –1 | 9 | –1 | ||
| Colorado Party | Andrés Ojeda | 392,592 | 16.89 | 17 | +4 | 5 | +1 | ||||
| Sovereign Identity | Gustavo Salle | 65,796 | 2.83 | 2 | New | 0 | New | ||||
| Open Cabildo | Guido Manini Ríos | 60,549 | 2.61 | 2 | –9 | 0 | –3 | ||||
| Independent Party | Pablo Mieres | 41,618 | 1.79 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Environmental Constitutional Party [es] | Eduardo Lust | 11,865 | 0.51 | 0 | New | 0 | New | ||||
| Popular Assembly | Gonzalo Martínez | 10,102 | 0.43 | 0 | New | 0 | New | ||||
| Partido Ecologista Radical Intransigente | César Vega | 9,281 | 0.40 | 0 | –1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| For Necessary Changes | Guillermo Franchi | 3,183 | 0.14 | 0 | New | 0 | New | ||||
| Republican Advance Party | Martín Pérez Banchero [es] | 1,909 | 0.08 | 0 | New | 0 | New | ||||
| Total | 2,324,147 | 100.00 | 2,332,370 | 100.00 | 99 | 0 | 30 | 0 | |||
| Valid votes | 2,324,147 | 95.11 | 2,332,370 | 95.72 | |||||||
| Invalid votes | 52,750 | 2.16 | 64,654 | 2.65 | |||||||
| Blank votes | 66,739 | 2.73 | 39,542 | 1.62 | |||||||
| Total votes | 2,443,636 | 100.00 | 2,436,566 | 100.00 | |||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,727,120 | 89.61 | 2,727,120 | 89.35 | |||||||
| Source:Corte Electoral (First Round)Corte Electoral (Second Round)El Observador (Chamber and Senate) | |||||||||||
The Library of the Legislative Power of Uruguay is a specialized institution whose main objective is to assist Uruguayan legislators and the cultural development of the community in the fulfillment of its functions, in order to provide documentation, information and advice to citizens, thanks to extensive bibliographic, jurisprudential, doctrinal and legislative collection.[9] It is considered the second most important library in Uruguay, behind theNational Library, due to the large collection and the status of parliamentary and public library.[10] The current library was founded on August 25, 1929, and has its origin in the unification of the libraries of the Chamber of Representatives and the Chamber of Senators.[11]
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