77 years old, the leader of the wide front, former Tupamara guerrilla and wife of former President José Mujica, said she was leaving the bench so that the fulfillment of parliamentary work “is complete,” according to the Montevideo newspapers El País and El Observador.
Topolansky’s trajectory was highlighted both by his colleagues on the bench and by legislators from other parties.
“Lucía Topolansky, the militant, will continue to walk alongside us, as she has from the beginning, from a very young age,” affirmed the senator from the Front Alexander Sanchez.
The renunciate”is part of a generation defeated in the war and absolutely triumphant at the polls,” said Senator Sebastián Da Silva, of the ruling (white) National Party, adding that he preferred “a thousand times tough opponents like Lucia Topolansky and not soft opponents without arguments”.
German Coutinhoof the Colorado Party, argued that “today the Senate loses a staunch legislator, a companion, a loyal opponent”, who was a “great negotiator” and had a “differential stature”, because “she had the right words for many things” .
Likewise, Senator Guido Manini Ríos, of Cabildo Abierto, underlined Topolansky’s “permanently conciliatory” and “permanent negotiator” attitude, as well as his “concern about different issues.”
In 1967, Topolansky entered the military in Tupamaros. In 1970 she was arrested and escaped from prison a few months later. She was captured again in 1972 and remained imprisoned until 1985, when she was granted an amnesty.
After leaving prison, she was one of the founders of the Popular Participation Movement (MPP), which in 1989 joined the newly created Broad Front.
In 2000 he entered the Chamber of Deputies and in 2005 he reached the Senate. For having been the candidate for senator with the most votes in the 2009 elections, on March 1, 2010, it was her turn to take the oath of office for the president-elect, her husband Mujica.
On two occasions, due to the absences of Mujica and Vice President Danilo Astori, she temporarily held the Presidency of the Republic and was the first woman in the position in the history of Uruguay.
In September 2017, she was appointed by Parliament to occupy the Vice Presidency of the Republic, after the resignation of Raúl Sendic, and completed the government period until March 2020, in the second term of President Tabaré Vázquez.
Source: Ambito
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