Nicolás José Martinelli Waksman[1] (born January 2, 1982) is a Uruguayan lawyer and politician of the National Party, currently serving as Minister of the Interior under President Luis Lacalle Pou.

[3] He clerked at the Posadas, Posadas y Vecino firm as a lawyer in the corporate and litigation sector from 2007 to 2010,[4] and at the Teyma-Abengoa law firm between 2013 and 2015.

[5] Martinelli joined the National Party while studying at university.

In 2008 he co-founded the Aire Fresco sector – Lista 404, together with Martín Lema, José Luis Satdjián and Luis Lacalle Pou.

[8] In 2011 he was a member of the commission led by the then president of the Chamber of Representatives Luis Lacalle Pou, which was in charge of removing obsolete, repealed or unregulated laws from the Uruguayan legal system.