Irene Moreira

Irene Renée Moreira Fernández (born 11 August 1964) is a Uruguayan lawyer, rural businesswoman and politician of Open Cabildo (CA) who served as Minister of Housing and Territorial Planning of Uruguay from March 1, 2020 to May 5, 2023.

In April 2019, after the foundation of Open Cabildo, Moreira decided to change her political affiliation to accompany her husband's presidential candidacy, so she left the National Party.

[4] However, after the victory of Luis Lacalle Pou as President of Uruguay, she was appointed Minister of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment, as a member of a party that makes up the electoral alliance, Coalición Multicolor.

[5] On February 15, 2020, she assumed her seat in the Senate pending her inauguration as head of the ministerial portfolio, on March 1.

[6] Daughter of Roque Moreira, a retired colonel from the National Army, she first met Guido Manini Ríos at a wedding, when he was 21 and she was 15 years old.