Luis Alberto Aparicio Alejandro Lacalle Pou (1973-), is a Uruguayan political figure.
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Lacalle Pou is the middle son of former President of Uruguay Luis Alberto Lacalle.
He has followed his father's political footsteps, and is a member of the Partido Nacional.
In the 1999 general elections, he was elected representative for Canelones. In 2004, he was re-elected national deputy for this same department.
In November 2007 Lacalle Pou was involved in a fight, in front of television cameras, in the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay involving a government deputy, Juan Domínguez, and others.
Spokesmen for government and opposition parties subsequently disowned the behaviour in connection with the incident. Discussion of the activities of Tupamaros and a slur on the ancestry of Lacalle Pou were thought to have provoked the violent, televised scenes, but the Frente Amplio and National parties were subsequently at pains to stress what they claimed was the unrepresentative nature of the behaviour among the deputies. (Link, below, to 'Espectador' article of November 6, 2007).
Lacalle Pou's career superficially mirrors that of Pedro Bordaberry, also a son of a former President of Uruguay, who followed his father into politics; however, unlike Bordaberry, he has been less successful in avoiding controversy.
As a two-term national representative, it is supposed that Lacalle wishes to run in the forthcoming 2009 general election for the Senate of Uruguay. He is the leader of the political lists 404 (Montevideo), 400 (Canelones).