Ana Carolina Cosse Garrido (born 25 December 1961) is a Uruguayan engineer and politician who is the vice president-elect of Uruguay after winning the 2024 general election.

[12] She also provided assistance to governmental agencies such as designing and supervising the first structured cabling for the state under the Ministry of Foreign Relations and developing fingerprint capture devices for the Venezuelan National Electoral Council between 1994 and 1999.

In December 2014, after the election of Tabaré Vázquez for a new presidential term was confirmed, it was announced that Cosse would be the head of the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Energy, a position she assumed on March 2, 2015.

[15][16] During her tenure at the head of that ministerial portfolio, a data center was built, and a submarine cable was installed that connected Uruguay to the United States.

[20][21] She announced her candidacy for the 2019 presidential primaries in September 2018 and was officially nominated at the Plenary of the Broad Front on November 10, alongside Daniel Martínez, Óscar Andrade, and Mario Bergara.

[26] However, on July 5, it was announced that Martínez had chosen Graciela Villar, a former member of the Montevideo legislature, as his running mate and vice-presidential candidate.

[30] Beginning in late 2019, before she took her seat in the Senate, rumors began to circulate that Cosse could be a candidate for the Broad Front to Intendant of Montevideo, head of the capital's government.

[38] In March 2023, the Montevideo legislature, with opposition votes, summoned Intendant Cosse to give explanations about "the systematic lack of response to requests for information made by councilors".

[42] In 2023, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Cosse to his Advisory Group on Local and Regional Governments, co-chaired by Pilar Cancela Rodríguez and Fatimatou Abdel Malick.

[43] Throughout 2023 different constituent sectors of the Broad Front announced their support for a possible candidacy of Cosse for the 2024 presidential primaries, including the most left-wing ones, such as the Communist, Socialist and Revolutionary Workers' parties.

[51][52] During the campaign, both former President José Mujica and his wife Lucía Topolansky, publicly criticized Cosse and stated that the Broad Front could lose the general elections if she were the presidential candidate.

[53] They later claimed that she could not beat the National Party because outside of Montevideo people "could not stand her", referring to the fact that Cosse focused her politics only on the capital.