Batalla was elected diputado for the Department of Montevideo from 1962–66 and 1967–71, and was President of the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay from 1969 to 1970.
He split from Colorado in 1971 to form the Frente Amplio with Michelini, and was re-elected diputado from 1972 until the instauration of the military dictatorship in June 1973.
Batalla was the eleventh person to hold the office of Vice President of Uruguay.
He was also President of the Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol (AUF, Uruguayan Football Association) from 1991–93,[2] and Vice-president of the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CSF, South American Football Confederation) between 1992 and 1993.
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