candidacy of his cousin, Juan Andrés Ramírez, candidate of the Herrerismo faction. The National Party narrowly lost the elections to the Colorado Party. Later career Aguirre failed to get elected to any office both in the 1994 and in the 1999 elections. In 1999, he supported Juan Andrés Ramírez in the primary elections of April 1999, although Ramírez lost to Luis Alberto Lacalle. In the October 1999 elections, he was a candidate for the Senate for Alianza Nacional, but failed to be elected. In recent years, Aguirre abandoned active politics, his faction, Renovación y Victoria, effectively disappearing after 1999. In the 2004 primary elections, he supported Jorge Larrañaga, who became the Party's nominee for the presidential elections of October 2004, but who lost to Tabaré Vázquez and the Frente Amplio. Aguirre continued to practice law and for many years was a distinguished columnist for Uruguay's main daily newspaper, El País (Uruguay). Lately he re-joined Lacalle. References See also Politics of Uruguay List of political families#Uruguay 1940 births 2021 deaths Vice presidents of Uruguay Presidents of the Senate of Uruguay Uruguayan vice-presidential candidates Uruguayan people of Spanish descent Uruguayan people of Basque descent 20th-century Uruguayan lawyers Uruguayan scholars of constitutional law University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni National Party (Uruguay) politicians People from Montevideo