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Uruguay's kind of governmentThis forum post has messages dated from 07/08/09 through 09/25/09, please be sure to read all the messages. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it.
| Uruguay's kind of governmentThe Federal system of government has been hailed as being more representative(at least that is what I learnt from the little history I did in high school.)The Presidential system has been seen to work in the United States and many other parts of the world. It seems to me then that different sysytems work for different countries depending on the kind of strucutures they have established. How different is the Government of Uruguay? Do they have a ceremonial or hands-on president? |
|  The president here is definitely "hands on" as he is the effective head of state, not just some figurehead like the Queen in the UK.I definitely agree that there's "different strokes for different folks". There's no such thing as 'the best form of government' because each country needs something different. From what I've seen so far they seem to have a healthy functioning democracy here in Uruguay. There are many active parties (Colorados, Blancos, Frente Amplio seem to be the main ones) and people still take an interest in who rules their countries unlike many passive indifferent people in Europe these days. It probably helps that voting is compulsory, so I guess people have to take an interest - I don't believe that is WHY they do though. |
| I thought that link might give you a little bit more detail because I'm far from an expert on the topic! |
Comment #308/31/09 08:27Rural east Colonia departmento | A tiny quibble but voting isn't compulsory though signing on at the appropriate voting station on election day is. We have a number of anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists who oppose voting on principle and who prefer to represent their views by not voting :-) You can calculate their numbers by comparing the numbers who signed on at a particular place to the number of votes cast. I understand that the greatest concentration of them is to be found in the Cerro barrio on the western side of MVD. |
| pale-o, Uruguay has not a "Federal" structure, it's a "unitary" republic. But you cannot compare this to the States, since it's a really small country in terms of population (less than 3.5 million) and size (more or less the Washingtons State). There's no much of different regions nor in geografic or cultural terms, so it's a very uniform country. Moreover, half of the population resides in Montevideo, so it could even be seen as a city and it's zone of influence. So a Federal structure is not applicable to Uruguay. As other posters say, it's a Presidential system with a working President. The "symbolic" presidents you name are known as "cheafs of state", as opposed to "cheafs of goverment" (the Prime Minister). This difference between those two heads in the Executive Power is found in Parlamentary countries. That is, in countries in which the Goverment (starting with the "cheaf of government" or Prime Minister) is not elected directly by the people, but by the parliament. Then the "cheaf of gov" is a replaceable figure; a sort of fuse, that can be changed as parlamentary alliances change; while the "cheaf of State" remain untouched and represent the continuity of the State, among Goverments. This is mostly a European political tradition, origined in the Monarchies. In ex-Monarchies, now Republics, like France, they have a President as the Cheaf of State. In other countries as the UK or Spain, they kept the King. But the role of both are more or less the same. In Uruguay and in the US, instead, there's not such thing as changing the gov as parlamentary alliance change, so there's not such two different roles. This system permits the election of the gov by the people in a more direct way (less mediatized by the political parties); but is also less flexible to changes. |
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