Yamandú Orsi
Yamandú Orsi | |
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Orsi in 2025 | |
| 43rd President of Uruguay | |
| Assumed office 1 March 2025 | |
| Vice President | Carolina Cosse |
| Preceded by | Luis Lacalle Pou |
| 22nd and 24th Intendant of the Canelones Department | |
| In office 26 November 2020 – 1 March 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Tabaré Costa |
| Succeeded by | Marcelo Metediera |
| In office 9 July 2015 – 6 February 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Gabriela Garrido |
| Succeeded by | Tabaré Costa |
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| Born | Yamandú Ramón Antonio Orsi Martínez 13 June 1967 Canelones Department, Uruguay |
| Party | Broad Front (since 1990) |
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| Spouse | Laura Alonsopérez |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Instituto de Profesores Artigas |
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Yamandú Ramón Antonio Orsi Martínez (born 13 June 1967) is a Uruguayan politician and history teacher who has been the 43rd president of Uruguay since March 2025. A member of the left-wing Movement of Popular Participation, the main faction of the Broad Front party, he served as intendant of the Canelones Department from 2015 to February 2020, and a second term from November 2020 to 2024.
A graduate from the Instituto de Profesores Artigas in 1991 as a history teacher, he worked in different secondary schools in the Canelones, Florida, and Maldonado departments. He became politically active during his adolescence, being part of the Vertiente Artiguista until 1990, when he joined the Movement of Popular Participation (MPP) that had been founded the previous year.