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The 2024 Florianópolis municipal election took place in the city of Florianópolis, Brazil on 6 October 2024. Voters elected a mayor, vice mayor, and 43 councillors. The incumbent mayor, Topázio Neto, of the PSD, the vice mayor elected in 2020 as a member of the Republicanos, took office on March 31, 2022, with the resignation of the incumbent, Gean Loureiro ().
From this date on Vila do Desterro and mainly the port began to have a strategic function because it was situated halfway between Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, possibly two of the largest seaside cities of South America at that time. For this reason in 1739 the Capitania da Ilha de Santa Catarina was created and Desterro became its capital.
2020 – Mahathir Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia following an attempt to replace the Pakatan Harapan government, which triggered the 2020-2022 Malaysian political crisis. [35] 2022 – Russo-Ukrainian War: Days after recognising Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, Russian president Vladimir Putin orders a full-scale ...
Grande Florianópolis is a mesoregion in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina This page was last edited on 7 November 2016, at 20:16 (UTC). Text is available under ...
The history of the Federal University of Santa Catarina has its roots in the Polytechnic Institute of Florianópolis founded on March 13 of 1917 by José Arthur Boiteux. Organized as a free institute, it was the first college degree institution of Santa Catarina state. On February 11, 1932 the Law School was incorporated, officially in 1935.
Today, it is a green water force and has a group of specialized elite in retaking ships and naval facilities, GRUMEC, unit specially trained to protect Brazilian oil platforms along its coast. [230] As of 2022 [update] , it is the only navy in Latin America that operates a helicopter carrier , NAM Atlântico and one of twelve navies in the ...
The 2022–2023 Brazilian election protests began shortly after the conclusion of the 2022 Brazilian general election's second round on 30 October, in which Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected president, which led to mass protests and roadblocks nationwide.
As of 2024, the Brazilian economy is the third largest in the Americas in nominal terms, and second largest in purchasing power parity. It is an upper-middle income developing mixed economy . [ 31 ] In 2024, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF), Brazil had the 10th largest nominal gross domestic product in the world, but the 7th ...