The Uruguayan National Party in the 1930 elections

Abstract

This article investigates the 1930 electoral campaign of the Uruguayan National Party through its partisan press. The work analyzes the thematic axes of the electoral agenda, the key ideas, proposals, and main lines of its political discourse in relation to issues such as immigration, constitutional reform, and the economic crisis, among others. Also are examined the discussions that occurred inside the party to process the adverse electoral result. The defeat against its traditional Colorado adversary, due to a greater number of votes compared to the previous elections, deepened the internal differences. It is shown how in December 1930 began to be perceived between the sectors of nationalism greater risks and frictions, in which the figure of Luis Alberto de Herrera had a central significance, marking the beginning of a rupture that would deepen in the months that followed, and in contrast to the unity touted throughout the 1920s.