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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.
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.
He had been the 24th vice president of Brazil since 2011 and acting president since 12 May 2016, when Rousseff's powers and duties were suspended pending an impeachment trial. [ 1 ] The Senate's 61–20 vote on 31 August 2016 to remove Rousseff from office meant that Temer succeeded her and served out the remainder of her second term.
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Former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro looks on during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on July 7, 2024 in Camboriu, Brazil. (Pedro H. Tesch/Getty Images/File)
Michel Temer's tenure as the 37th president of Brazil began on 12 May 2016 and ended on 1 January 2019.. It began when Temer as vice-president, temporarily assumed the powers and duties of the presidency after the temporary removal of president Dilma Rousseff's powers and duties, as a result of the acceptance of the impeachment process by the Federal Senate.
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The president of the Superior Electoral Court has sought to clamp down on claims spread online by supporters of Bolsonaro that the October 2022 election was unjustly stolen from him.