Daisy Tourné

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Daisy Tourné
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Daisy Tourné in 2007.
Born
Daisy Tourné Valdez

(1951-03-17) March 17, 1951 (age 73)
Montevideo, Uruguay
NationalityUruguayan
Occupationpolitician, teacher, syndicalist
Political partyBroad Front
Parent(s)María Obdulia Valdez
Pedro César Tourné

Daisy Tourné (born 17 March 1951) is a Uruguayan politician, teacher and syndicalist.

Family

Daisy Tourné is the daughter of María Obdulia Valdez and Pedro César Tourné, she is a niece to former Senator Uruguay Tourné, of the conservative National Party.

Tourné is an elementary school teacher and a social psychologist by profession.

She is aligned politically with the Frente Amplio movement, which was in government office between 2005 and 2020. Between 1995 and 2007 Tourné served as a deputy for Montevideo, prior to taking up ministerial office.

Ministerial office

Between 2007 and June 2009 she served as Interior Minister in the government of President Tabaré Vázquez, the first woman to have been appointed to that post.

Tourné succeeded José Díaz in the post in 2007.

She was herself succeeded in her post in 2009 firstly as a temporary measure by Víctor Rossi, and then by Jorge Bruni as a permanent appointment.

Controversies

In 2007, as Interior Minister, Tourné oversaw security for the visit to Uruguay of US President George W. Bush, to whom a significant hostility among many of Ms. Tourné's Frente Amplio colleagues, raised in a tradition which magnifies Che Guevara and his Cuban fellow revolutionaries, was widely noted. This event occurred very shortly after her appointment to office.

In 2008 the opposition Colorado Party Presidential front runner Pedro Bordaberry Herrán called on Tourné to resign.

Bordaberry's call followed his publicly expressed doubts about what he claimed was Tourné's lack of commitment to her ministerial responsibility for public safety issues.[1] The criticism, which highlighted likely discourse during the 2009 Presidential elections, was rejected by Tourné.

Resignation from Frente Amplio government

However, Tourné eventually did resign on 4 June 2009. According to some reports, the President himself asked Tourné to resign the Ministry following the incident, while these reports were contradicted by others.[2]

The resignation occurred following some public gaffes, which included comments widely deemed indiscreet about former President Luis Alberto Lacalle.[3] She also made a widely noted personal comment re. former Vice President Luis Antonio Hierro López.[4] This event came about 18 months after the Frente Amplio had disavowed another prominent member within its ranks for comparable comments made regarding the son of former President Lacalle.

Tourné and public debate on alleged 'crudeness' in political discourse

There followed a public debate on the supposed significance of 'crudeness', with some observers having regarded Ms. Tourné as having been unacceptably 'crude'.[5]

In turn, the Uruguayan Socialist Party spokesman on the contrary accused the Opposition of 'crude machismo'.[6][7] The party also offered an alternative version of the reason for Ms. Tourné's resignation, namely, that she had voluntarily left President Vázquez's government, countering suggestions that she had been dismissed.

See also

References

  1. ^ Teledoce.com - Portal de noticias
  2. ^ [1] Archived August 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Biographical note: Mr. Lacalle is leader of her uncle Uruguay Tourné's National Party (Uruguay).
  4. ^ Dimite la ministra del Interior en Uruguay tras un discurso soez
  5. ^ Spanish: 'soez'.
  6. ^ "El PS defendió a Tourné y negó que Vázquez pidiera su renuncia - Diario EL PAIS - Montevideo - Uruguay". Archived from the original on 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2010-06-21.
  7. ^ [2]; Spanish: 'soez machismo' Archived August 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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