Background and previous political alliances

While the National Party's Aparicio Saravia

Aparicio Saravia

Aparicio Saravia da Rosa was a Uruguayan politician and military leader...

 was a collateral family forbear, she is a former Deputy, and former supporter of 'Pachequismo' and subsequently the Ballistas within the Colorado Party (Uruguay)

Colorado Party (Uruguay)

The Colorado Party is a political party in Uruguay.- Aims :It unites Conservative, Moderate and Social democratic groups. It was the dominant party of government almost without exception during the stabilisation of the Uruguayan republic....

. She was formerly seen as politically close to Jorge Pacheco Klein

Jorge Pacheco Klein

Jorge Pacheco Klein is a Uruguayan political figure and lawyer.-Background:Pacheco Klein is a member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party...

, who, however, left the country in 1998.

Current political alignment with Pedro Bordaberry Herrán

In 2008 Saravia adhered to Pedro Bordaberry

Pedro Bordaberry

Juan Pedro Bordaberry Herrán is a Uruguayan political figure. He is the current President of the Colorado Party-Early life:Bordaberry was educated at The British Schools of Montevideo, gaining fluency in English...

 Herrán's 'Vamos Uruguay' grouping within the Colorado Party. Partly given her family background and her past association with 'Pachequismo', she is thus thought to add to the potential of 'Vamos Uruguay' to attract support beyond the Colorado Party's traditional electoral backers.

See also

• Politics of Uruguay
  Politics of Uruguay
  The Politics of Uruguay abide by a presidential representative democratic republic, under which the President of Uruguay is both the head of state and the head of government, as well as a multiform party system. The president exercises executive power and Legislative power is vested in the two...
  
  
• Colorado Party (Uruguay)#Post 2004: defeat at polls and rise of Pedro Bordaberry
• Pedro Bordaberry#Bordaberry and Riversita resurgence