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Tancredo Neves was born at 3:30 BRT on 4 March 1910 in São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais and was of mostly Portuguese, but also Austrian descent [5] and graduated in law. The Neves family name comes from an Azorean great-great-grandfather. [6] Tancredo Neves was a descendant of Amador Bueno, a noted paulista from the colonial Brazilian era. [6] [7]
The Pantheon of Motherland and Freedom, Tancredo Neves in the Praça dos Tres Poderes in Brasilia was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer in 1985. Its foundation stone was laid by French President François Mitterrand on 15 October 1985 and the Pantheon was inaugurated on 7 September 1986.
Tancredo Neves, who had been prime minister during the presidency of João Goulart, was chosen to be the candidate of PMDB, the major opposition party (and the successor of the MDB Party, that had opposed the Military Regime since its inception), but Tancredo was also supported by a large political spectrum, even including a significant part of ...
On 15 January 1985 the Electoral College gathered to vote. Tancredo Neves was elected president with 480 votes (73%) against only 180 (27%) given to Maluf. There were 26 abstentions, mostly from parliamentarians from the Workers' Party, which decided to maintain a neutral stance and support neither candidate.
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.
A joint session of the National Congress began, attended by 212 congressmen (29 senators and 183 deputies). Due to the tumult, it was suspended for 20 minutes. It was during the suspension that Pedro Aleixo allegedly, Tancredo Neves was informed, suggested a summary coup, making the statement and suspending the session.
Tancredo Neves was not dedicated to the preservation of parliamentarism, but his fall was the "beginning of the end" of the regime, as his cabinet, unlike the others that followed, was not formed with the commitment to bring forward the plebiscite and was not dependent on Goulart. [32] [39]
As part of the deal, Sarney became Tancredo Neves' running mate on the opposition ticket. [1] Neves won the election of 15 January 1985, but became gravely ill the night before his inauguration. [1] Sarney assumed office as vice-president and acting president until Neves died on 21 April, and he formally became the first civilian president in ...