Rafael Addiego Bruno

Rafael José Addiego Bruno (Salto, February 23, 1923 - Montevideo, February 20, 2014) was a Uruguayan lawyer, jurist and politician. He was a member of the Uruguayan Supreme Court of Justice between 1984 and 1993, a body of which he was president. He was interim president of Uruguay for 17 days in February 1985, at the end of the civic-military dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985).

Biography

Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of the Republic with the title of Doctor of Law. He was a member of the Supreme Court of Justice between 1984 and 1993, the culmination of a long judicial career.

He entered the Judiciary on August 8, 1950, serving as Clerk in the Justice of the Peace of the 3rd Judicial Section of Montevideo. In 1951 he worked as Clerk of the Justice of the Peace of the 23rd Judicial Section of Montevideo and in 1952 he served in the homologous court of the 1st Judicial Section until his appointment as justice of the peace of that same headquarters on May 22, 1953. On December 22, 1954, he became Justice of the Peace of the 4th Judicial Section of Montevideo and on February 26, 1965, he was appointed Substitute Judge. From May 20, 1965, he served as Civil Judge of the 1st Instance of 3rd Shift, until November 25, 1974, when he was promoted to Minister of the Court of Appeals in Civil Matters of 2. th turn. On January 20, 1984, he was invested as Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice, a position in which he served until his retirement on February 23, 1993.

He was a professor of procedural law at the Law School of the University of the Republic between 1954 and 1964. He was a member of various civil organizations of a cultural and political nature. He was vice president of the Institute of Civic Studies, linked to the Civic Union.

Interim Presidency

It was agreed between the political forces and the military that as president of this body, he would assume the exercise of the Executive Power, which he did from February 12 to March 1, 1985, between the resignation of Gregorio Álvarez and the assumption of Julio Maria Sanguinetti. He was sworn in according to current regulations. According to the Constitution of the Republic, in case of vacancy in the positions of president, vice president, senators and other members of the Legislative Power, the presidency of the republic must be occupied by the president of the Supreme Court of Justice. it was due to a political agreement between the Colorado Party and the Armed Forces so that the presidential sash would not be transmitted from a dictatorial president Gregorio Álvarez and the democratically elected president, Julio María Sanguinetti. Finally, the one who put the presidential sash on Sanguinetti was his vice president, Enrique Tarigo.

During his brief term he managed to appoint two ministers and a Secretary General of the Presidency.

After Activity

After the exercise of the Presidency of the Republic, he returned to the Supreme Court.

During his term in office, he ruled on one of the most divisive issues in recent history in Uruguay, the Expiration Law; with his vote he affirmed that the law was constitutional.