This was the fifth cabinet change President Lacalle Pou has carried out since he took office in March 2020 and, as with the previous four, he needed to preserve the delicate balance within his politically diverse five-party ruling coalition. Lacalle Pou said he had taken the decision after consultation with one of those five parties, the right-of-centre Partido Colorado (PC; Colorados), to which Uriarte and Mattos belong.
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