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MONTEVIDEO.- After finalizing his divorce process, the president of Uruguay Luis Lacalle Pou He decided stop living in the presidential residence from Joaquin Suarez street corner Reyes, in the Prado of Montevideo, and He went to live in his new, smaller house, located in the Carrasco neighborhood.
According to presidential sources confirmed to the newspaper The countrythe final move was a few days ago, as announced Montevideo Portal.
The president bought a house in Carrasco after selling the property he had in the private neighborhood The Tahona.
In this way, the presidential residence will be practically closed, except for some official instances. According to sources consulted by Montevideo Portal, some of the staff who attended to the president and his family will continue working there and others will work in the new home. The move triggered a series of movements (retirements, among others) and it is likely that there will be changes in the work regime of some officials, especially those related to custody.
In his sworn statement delivered to the Transparency and Public Ethics Board (Jutep), the head of state explained that he sold his old house and bought another. The sale value of his former house was US$550,000. On the other hand, the new home cost 26,110,000 Uruguayan pesos, around US$ 670,000.
The new home is located in Carrasco, the most exclusive neighborhood of Montevideo. At the time, the sources consulted indicated that she intended to have a place there to be geographically closer to his children, who live in the same area with her mother. Lorena Ponce de Leonafter the couple separated.
This month, Lacalle Pou and Ponce de León attended the third and final hearing of their divorce by mutual consent. There, the divorce was decreed the dissolution of marriage. They both got married in June 2000 and decided to separate permanently in May 2022.
The couple has three children, all of them of legal age: Violeta, Luis and Manuel. As the president has expressed in public statements, he maintains a good relationship with Ponce de León.
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