Anticolegialistas

The anticolegialistas were a group of politicians within the Colorado Party of José Batlle y Ordóñez who were opposed to his 1913 proposal for the creation of a colegiado (collegial executive system) to replace the president. Under Batlle's proposal a nine-member council would take over the executive function. More conservative than Batlle and led by his former interior minister, Pedro Manini Ríos, the anticolegialistas, who called themselves riveristas, formed a splinter party in 1916 known as the Riverista Colorado Party.

Although ostensibly opposed to the colegiado because they thought it would make for a cumbersome and inefficient executive, the anticolegialistas were opposed to many of the liberal reforms and the progressive social agenda pushed by Batlle. When the anticolegialistas received a majority in the elections to the 1916 constitutional convention, Batlle was forced to compromise on his proposal. Thus, the 1919 Constitution created a bicephalous executive, with a president who was responsible for foreign affairs and security matters and a nine-member National Council of Administration that was responsible for all other state activities.

See alsoUruguay, Colegiado .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Philip B. Taylor, Jr., Government and Politics of Uruguay (1960).

Milton Vanger, The Model Country: José Batlle y Ordóñez of Uruguay, 1907–1915 (1980).

Additional Bibliography

Caetano, Gerardo. La república conservadora, 1916–1929. Uruguay: Editorial Fin de Siglo, 1992.

Devoto, Fernando and Marcela P Ferrari. La construcción de las democracias rioplatenses: Proyectos institucionales y prácticas políticas, 1900–1930. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, 1994.

                                       Martin Weinstein