José Amorín Batlle

Early life and education Amorín Batlle was born in Montevideo on November 9, 1954, the son of Julio Amorín Larrañaga and Susana Batlle Iribarne. Raised in a political family, his father served as a minister of labour and social welfare in the first months of Juan María Bordaberry's presidency, and his uncle was Ernesto Amorín Larrañaga, a National Party politician. His mother was the cousin of Jorge Batlle, president from 2000 to 2005. While completing his studies, he joined the civil service, as an official at the National Colonization Institute, and in the legal division of University of Labor of Uruguay.

From 1986 to 1987 he served as Legal Secretary of the Board of the National Port Administration (ANP), between 1991 and 1995 as advisor to the then president of the National Administration of Power Plants and Electrical Transmissions Mario Reibakas and in 1996 as legal advisor to the management of the Banco de Previsión Social. That year he stopped being a civil servant to become main partner of the Amorín-Larrañaga law firm. He participated in the campaign for the "No" option in the 1980 constitutional referendum.