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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.
He became the first president of Brazil elected to three terms, the first since Getúlio Vargas to serve in non-consecutive terms, and the first to unseat an incumbent president. He was sworn in on 1 January 2023. [252] [253] At age 77, he was the oldest Brazilian president at the time of inauguration. [254] [255] [256]
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.
The president of Brazil (Portuguese: presidente do Brasil), officially the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: presidente da República Federativa do Brasil) or simply the President of the Republic, is the head of state and head of government of Brazil. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government ...
Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro was charged on Tuesday with leading a plot to overthrow the government and undermine the country’s 40-year-old democracy after his 2022 election loss ...
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office on 1 January 2003, having been elected president in 2002. He was the second Brazilian president to take office on this date, the third president elected since the end of the military dictatorship, and the first socialist-oriented former worker to assume the Presidency of Brazil.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso GCB GCTE GCoIISE GColIH GColL GCM RE DMN CYC OMRI (Brazilian Portuguese: [feʁˈnɐ̃du ẽˈʁiki kaʁˈdozu] ⓘ; born 18 June 1931), also known by his initials FHC (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˌɛfjaɡaˈse] ⓘ), is a Brazilian sociologist, professor, and politician [1] who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 1 January 2003. [2]
Brazil's president says he refuses be cowed by the wealth and power of tech tycoon Elon Musk, after the politician backed a ban of Musk's social media site X in his nation.. The site formerly ...