In order to put an end to the Cisplatine War that disputed the sovereignty of the Oriental Province and the Oriental Missions territories, the United Provinces of the River Plate and the Empire of Brazil signed in August 1828 a Preliminar Peace Convention, agreeing to resign from their claims to the State of Montevideo and to declare it as an independent country.

[2] The next step of the Assembly was to set up the Provisional Executive, which was a priority issue because there were still occupying forces from Brazil in Montevideo collecting taxes and customs' rights detrimental to Uruguayan's finances, and in order to quickly activate the commerce.

A first proposal by representative Lázaro Gadea was submitted, suggesting the creation a collective Executive of two or more persons, natural citizens in full possession of their rights, in order to reconcile the different factions, specially the strong ones led by Juan Antonio Lavalleja and Fructuoso Rivera, (opposing each other) but the Commission on Constitution and Law of the Assembly rejected this proposal.

Instead, a decree was passed where in order to be Governor and Provisional Captain General it was only required "to be born within the territories of the so far called United Provinces of the River Plate", indirectly referring to Rondeau, who was already mentioned as a potential candidate in private meetings of several members of the Assembly, but also because the political elite considered that was not considered convenient in the long term to choose among the two strong personalities of Rivera or Lavalleja.

Therefore, the name of a high-ranking official such as Rondeau started to be considered, because he was disconnected from the country in a way the political elite could establish a government free from the ups and downs of the caudillo movements, and to choose someone like-minded unitarian tendencies.

[5] Uruguayan historian Carlos Machado commented regarding the appointment of Rondeau as the next Governor, describing it as an "unfortunate decision", because he was not even born in the Eastern side of Uruguay River, he had precedents of confrontations with the Artigas militia in 1813 and later with the Federal League in a battle he lost, ending up outside the revolution, and he did not portray a neutral part between the caudillos Lavalleja and Rivera who were fighting over the power.

One of the causes of the crisis was the growing presence in high positions of the government of the abrasilerados (supporters of Portuguese and later Brazilian occupation of Oriental Province during the Cisplatine regime).

At this point, the highest positions in the Executive were under the hands of the abrasilerados, a situation that the Constitutional Assembly did not like due to their Unitarian leaders were displaced and Rivera gained the power and the control of finances.

[5] Another triggering incident was the project to disestablish the Colony of Cuareim, established by Rivera and settled with Guaraní families who followed him after the Campaign of Rivera at the Misiones Orientales, which despite the request for economic support for the settlement on 1 April 1830, the Assembly required expenditure receipts of the first budget assignment made on 13 May 1829, and also the continuity of the colony itself was discussed.

When on 16 April this troop was about to leave the city to go to campaign, the Assembly ordered to suspend this departure and asked the Executive for explanations why they allowed this, that representative Lapido told there was no reason to mobilize the battalion.