José Alberto Mujica Cordano born on May 20, 1934 in Montevideo. The "Pepe" was married in 2005 with Senator Topolansky Lucia.
His first vote was the Socialist Party and then in his youth he played with Enrique Erro, a grouping of the National Party. It is part of his life underground activity as a member of the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros in the sixties and seventies. This activity was arrested, spent 14 years detained in various military units and was part of group leaders MLN known as "hostages" among whom was Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro, current senator for the Broad Front and the leader and MLN founder, Raul Sendic.
In 1985 is released, after the return to democracy, benefited from an amnesty to detainees políticos.Tras common and few years of democratic openness creates, along with others concerning the MLN, the Movement of Popular Participation (MPP), within Frente Amplio.
Mujica was elected deputy in the elections of 1994 and senator in 1999. In the 2004 election was the senator with the most votes (300,000), according to which he resigned when he was appointed minister.
On March 1, 2005, President of the Republic, Vazquez, he was appointed Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries.
He leaves office on March 3, 2008 and returns to his Senate seat.
The Extraordinary Congress "Zelmar Michelini," December 2008, proclaimed as the official candidate of the Frente Amplio to stand for the internal elections of 2009. At that time, also resolved the government's program for a new period. On May 24, 2009 presented to renounce their political sector, the MPP, through a letter between the lines argued that from that moment "ceased to be bound by the discipline of the group and its management bodies." The Directorate of MPP accepted the same, considering that Mujica should "face its responsibility as the candidate of the Frente all."
