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In 1989, the first elections for president under the new Constitution were held and the young Fernando Collor de Mello was elected for a five-year term, the first president to be elected by direct popular ballot since the military coup. He was inaugurated in 1990 and in 1992 he became the first president in Brazil to be impeached due to corruption.
Castelo Branco (left) with French president Charles de Gaulle during the latter's visit to Brazil, 1964. Thereafter, Castelo Branco dropped all pretense of democracy. On October 27, 1965, he issued the Second Institutional Act, which abolished all existing political parties, restored his emergency powers, and extended his term to 1967.
18 January: The National Congress of Brazil rejects an amendment that would restore direct elections for President and Vice President of the Republic. [1] 24 January: President Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco promulgates the Sixth Brazilian Constitution, which replaces the Fifth Constitution. [2]
This is a list of presidents of Brazil by time in office. The basis of the list is the difference between dates . Since the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889, there have been 39 presidencies and 36 presidents, as Getúlio Vargas , Ranieri Mazzilli and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva served non-consecutive terms.
On 15 March 1967, the country's official name was changed to Federative Republic of Brazil. On that same date, Arthur da Costa e Silva was sworn in as President succeeding Castello Branco. Since Costa e Silva, therefore, all presidents of Brazil have borne the full title of President of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
Castelo Branco's tenure as the 26th president of Brazil began on 15 April 1964, after he won the 1964 presidential election, and ended on 15 March 1967, when Artur da Costa e Silva took office. [1] Castelo Branco's government was the first of the Brazilian military dicatorship following the 1964 coup d'état.
The military dictatorship in Brazil (Portuguese: ditadura militar), occasionally referred to as the Fifth Brazilian Republic, [3] [4] was established on 1 April 1964, after a coup d'état by the Brazilian Armed Forces, with support from the United States government, [5] against president João Goulart. The Brazilian dictatorship lasted for 21 ...
The military dictatorship lasted 21 years, until 1985, when Neves was indirectly elected Brazil's first civilian president since the 1960 elections. Known also as the Sixth Brazilian Republic or the New Republic , is the contemporary epoch in the history of Brazil.