Enrique Antía

Enrique Andrés Antía Behrens (born November 30, 1949) is a Uruguayan agricultural engineer and politician of the National Party (PN). He has served three terms as Intendant of the Maldonado Department.

Graduated from the University of the Republic, he has an agricultural engineering degree. He served as an Extension Technician for the National Milk Producers Cooperative (Conaprole) in the departments of Maldonado and Rocha for twenty years.

Family Born in Maldonado as the son of the architect Enrique Antía Arlo and Consuelo Behrens Muñoz, Antía is the first cousin of the former Minister of Transport and Public Works, Lucio Cáceres Behrens, on his maternal side, and his mother is the first cousin of the well-known actress China Zorrilla.

Political career He began his militancy as a member of the Nationalist University Movement (MUN).

In the 2000 municipal elections, he was elected Intendant of Maldonado, a position he held until 2005. While in the 2004 general election, he was elected Senator of the Republic for the 46th Legislature, as part of the Wilsonist Current faction.

In 2015 he ran again for the post of Intendant of Maldonado, being elected for five years and ending the 10-year leftist rule in the department. In 2019 he was pre-candidate for president for the National Party in the presidential primaries; he obtained 7.51% of the votes, being defeated by Luis Lacalle Pou, who was the candidate in the general election.

On February 6, 2020, he resigned as Intendant to dedicate himself to the re-election campaign. In the municipal elections of September, he was re-elected Intendant of Maldonado, with 37.4% of the votes. He took office for the third time on November 26.