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Social Democratic Party (Brazil, 1987)
The Social Democratic Party (, ''PSD'') was a Brazilian political party founded in 1987. It was an attempt to continue the 1945 Social Democratic Party, but never could attract its old members. The party was founded by César Cals, then Minister of Mines and Energy of president João Figueiredo, and existed until 2003, when it merged into the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB). Electoral history The "new" PSD contested its first election in 1988, electing 56 city councillors and only 2 mayors, in the municipalities of Paulínia and Teodoro Sampaio, in São Paulo. After failing in the nomination of former president Figueiredo in the 1989 presidential election, they tried to launch the also former president Jânio Quadros (who joined the party in May), but withdrawn the candidacy. The alternative was to choose the then president of the Democratic Association of Ruralists, Ronaldo Caiado, aged 39 (turning 40 during campaign) and was a rookie as candidate. In an alliance with the inexp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Figueiredo
João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo (; 15 January 1918 – 24 December 1999) was a Brazilian military officer and dictator who served as the 30th president of Brazil from 1979 to 1985, the last of the Military dictatorship in Brazil, military regime that ruled the country following the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. He was chief of the National Intelligence Service of Brazil, Secret Service (SNI) during the term of his predecessor, Ernesto Geisel, who appointed him to the presidency at the end of his own term. Figueiredo’s presidency continued the political liberalization started under Geisel. Shortly after taking office, he approved a broad Amnesty law#Brazil, amnesty for politicians who had been removed from office under the Institutional Acts. In 1980, the two-party system was abolished, leading to the creation of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) as the successor to the MDB and the Democratic Social Party (PDS) as the successor to National Renewal Alliance, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Social Party
The Democratic Social Party (, PDS) was a conservative Brazilian political party. It was established in 1979 as a continuation of the National Renewal Alliance (ARENA), the political wing of the military during the 1965–79 military dictatorship, at a time in which the country was moving away from authoritarianism. However, the official foundation date is 31 January 1980. In 1985, when Paulo Maluf won the party's nomination for the presidential bid, a huge group, led by José Sarney (former leader of ARENA from 1971 to 1980 and of the PDS from 1980 to 1985), Jorge Bornhausen and Marco Maciel, founded the Liberal Front Party (PFL). Sarney was elected vice-president in that year's election, but he served from the beginning as president, due to the death of President-elect Tancredo Neves. The Democratic Social Party suffered bad defeats in both the 1986 (7.9%) and 1990 (8.9%) elections for the Chamber of Deputies, when at the same time PFL took 17.7% and 12.4%. In 1986, in par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (; born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), known Mononym, mononymously as Lula, is a Brazilian politician, trade unionist and former metalworker who has served as the 39th president of Brazil since 2023. A member of the Workers' Party (Brazil), Workers' Party, Lula was also the 35th president from 2003 to 2011. Born in Pernambuco, Lula quit school after second grade to work, and did not learn to read until he was ten years old. As a teenager, he worked as a metalworker and became a trade unionist. Between 1978 and 1980, he led the 1978–1980 ABC Paulista strikes, ABC workers' strikes during Brazil's military dictatorship in Brazil, military dictatorship, and in 1980, he helped start the Workers' Party during Redemocratization in Brazil, Brazil's redemocratization. Lula was one of the leaders of the 1984 Diretas Já, ''Diretas Já'' movement, which demanded direct elections. In 1986 Brazilian legislative election, 1986, he was elected a federal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luiz Paulo Conde
Luiz Paulo Fernández Conde (6 August 1934 – 21 July 2015) was a Brazilian architect and politician. He was Mayor of Rio de Janeiro from 1997 to 2001 and Vice Governor from 2003 to 2007. Biography Fourth son of Jose Ramon Conde Rivas, Spanish entrepreneur and industrial and Amália Lorenzo Fernández, lyric singer and musician from Spanish ancestry. Conde was also nephew of composer Oscar Lorenzo Fernández. During his childhood, he attended Lafayette and Mello e Souza High Schools. He married in 1959 with his college friend Eliza Rizzo, architect and plastic artist, with whom he had three children: Marcelo, Marcos and Maria Eliza. Architecture career Graduated in 1959 at the National Architecture School of the University of Brazil (current Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and worked in the project development of the Rio Museum of Modern Art (MAM), as collaborator of Affonso Eduardo Reidy. Conde was a judge, as an invitation of the French government, of the contest for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazilian Social Democracy Party
The Brazilian Social Democracy Party (, PSDB), also known as the Brazilian Social Democratic Party or the Party of Brazilian Social Democracy,. is a Centre-right politics, centre-right political party in Brazil. As the formerly third largest party in the National Congress of Brazil, National Congress, the PSDB was the main opposition party against the Workers' Party (Brazil), Workers' Party (PT) administrations of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff from 2003 to 2016. Born together as part of the social democratic opposition to the Brazilian military dictatorship, military dictatorship from the late 1970s through the 1980s, and later shifting toward neoliberalism and liberal conservatism in the 1990s, the PSDB and the PT have since the mid-1990s been the bitterest of rivals in current Politics of Brazil, Brazilian politics—both parties prohibit any kind of coalition or official cooperation with each other at any government levels. The PSDB's mascot is a blue and yel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sérgio Cabral Filho
Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho (born January 27, 1963) is a Brazilian politician and journalist who served as the governor of Rio de Janeiro from 2007 to 2014. A member of MDB, he previously served as the president of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro from 1995 to 2003, and was a senator for Rio de Janeiro from 2003 to 2007. Cabral was convicted on charges of corruption and money laundering as part of Operation Car Wash in 2017. The son of journalist Sérgio Cabral and a graduate of Centro Universitário da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, he successfully ran for Rio de Janeiro's state assembly in 1990. Cabral served as a representative from 1991 to 2003, having served as its president from 1995 to 2003. He unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Rio de Janeiro in the elections of 1992 and 1996. In the 2002 general elections, he was elected senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro, a position he occupied from January 2003 until December 2006, when he resigned to run in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newton Cruz
Newton Araújo de Oliveira e Cruz (30 October 1924 – 15 April 2022) was a division general in the Brazilian Army, noted for his participation in the repressive activities of the military dictatorship in Brazil between 1964 and 1985. Formation After graduating from the Military School of Realengo in Artillery, Newton Cruz was also a classmate of General Otávio Aguiar de Medeiros, and later his partner in political-military life. On 31 March 1964, he attended the School of Command and General Staff (ECEME) in Urca, Rio de Janeiro, when the Military Dictatorship began. Posts occupied Newton Cruz was head of the Central Agency of the National Information Service, from 1977 to 1983, and of the Planalto Military Command. On a number of occasions, he was accused of crimes committed throughout his army career. Notably, he was charged with the death of journalist Alexandre von Baumgarten, based on the testimony of dancer Claudio Werner Polila. The general denied being involved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro (state)
Rio de Janeiro () is one of the States of Brazil, 27 federative units of Brazil. It has the second largest economy of Brazil, with the largest being that of the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo. The state, which has 8.2% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for 9.2% of the Brazilian Gross domestic product, GDP. The state of Rio de Janeiro is located within the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Southeast Region, Brazil, Southeast (assigned by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, IBGE). Rio de Janeiro shares borders with all the other states in the same Southeast macroregion: Minas Gerais (North, N and Ordinal directions, NW), Espírito Santo (Ordinal direction, NE) and São Paulo (state), São Paulo (Ordinal directions, SW). It is bounded on the east and south by the South Atlantic Ocean. Rio de Janeiro has an area of . Its capital is the city of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, which was the capital of the Portuguese Colonial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orestes Quércia
Orestes Quércia (; 18 August 1938 – 24 December 2010) was a Brazilian politician who served as the 28th governor of São Paulo State. Early life and education The son of Octavio Quércia and Isaura Roque Quércia, Orestes Quércia lived in Pedregulho and moved to Campinas with his family when still a teenager. Elected the vice-president of the student council in his high school, in his senior year he joined as a reporter to the local newspaper ''Diário do Povo'', and got accepted at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUCC) in its law school program. At university, he was the director of the newspaper ''Centro Acadêmico 16 de Abril'' and he founded the Universidade de Cultura Popular (University of Popular Culture) linked to the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUCC). From 1959 to 1963 Quércia was the radio announcer for two radios: Rádio Cultura and Rádio Brasil, he also worked at the newspaper Jornal de Campinas which was a branch of Última ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazilian Democratic Movement
The Brazilian Democratic Movement (, MDB) is a Brazilian political party. It is considered a " big tent party" and it is one of the parties with the greatest representation throughout the national territory, with the most numbers of senators, mayors and city councillors, always having formed a large part of the National Congress since 1988, and also has the largest number of affiliates, with 2,043,709 members . Originally, the MDB was founded on 1965 as part of an enforced two party system by the Brazilian military dictatorship, providing an official, if controlled, opposition. With political opening, in the early 1980s the former members of the MDB created the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (, PMDB), the name by which the party was known until 2018. It was the party of former Presidents of Brazil Tancredo Neves, José Sarney, Itamar Franco and Michel Temer, as well providing support for the governments of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Brazilian General Election
General elections were held in Brazil on October 3, 1994, the second to take place under the provisions of the 1988 constitution and the second direct presidential election since 1960. Elected in 1989, President Fernando Collor of the centre-right National Reconstruction Party (PRN) had resigned in the face of an impeachment trial, resulting in Vice President Itamar Franco succeeding him. Facing a fiscal crisis Franco's government launched the Plano Real (" Real Plan") to stabilize the national economy. With Franco barred from running for a full term, the architect of the Real Plan, Minister of Finance Fernando Henrique Cardoso,Almanaque Abril, 28ª ed, 1995SAYAD, João. Observações sobre o Plano Real. Est. Econ. São Paulo. Vol. 25, Nº Especial, págs. 7-24, 1995-6 was chosen by the PSDB to serve as their presidential candidate in Franco's absence. For the position of Vice President, Cardoso selected former presidential Chief of Staff Marco Maciel of the Liberal Front Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamber Of Deputies (Brazil)
The Chamber of Deputies () is a federal legislative body and the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil. The chamber comprises 513 deputies, who are elected by proportional representation to serve four-year terms. The current president of the chamber is the Deputy Hugo Motta ( Republicanos- PB), who was elected on 1 February 2025. Structure The number of deputies elected is proportional to the size of the population of the respective state (or of the Federal District) as of 1994. However, no delegation can be made up of less than eight or more than seventy seats. Thus the least populous state elects eight federal deputies and the most populous elects seventy. These restrictions favour the smaller states at the expense of the more populous states and so the size of the delegations is not exactly proportional to population. Elections to the Chamber of Deputies are held every four years, with all seats up for election. Federal representation A census held every 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
