Yamandú Orsi

About

Yamandú Ramón Antonio Orsi Martínez (born 13 June 1967) is a Uruguayan politician and history teacher who has been the 43rd president of Uruguay since March 2025. A member of the left-wing Movement of Popular Participation, the main faction of the Broad Front party, he served as intendant of the Canelones Department from 2015 to February 2020, and a second term from November 2020 to 2024.
A graduate from the Instituto de Profesores Artigas in 1991 as a history teacher, he worked in different secondary schools in the Canelones, Florida, and Maldonado departments. He became politically active during his adolescence, being part of the Vertiente Artiguista until 1990, when he joined the Movement of Popular Participation (MPP) that had been founded the previous year.

== Early life and education ==
Yamandú Ramón Antonio Orsi Martínez was born in rural Canelones Department on 13 June 1967, to Pablo “Bebe” Orsi, a rural worker, and Carmen “Beba” Martínez, a seamstress. He has an older sister, María Orsi, Sra. del Luján.
Orsi is of paternal Italian descent, tracing his heritage to Osiglia, a municipality situated in the province of Savona, in the Liguria region of Italy. Orsi claims that the…