Indirect presidential elections were held in

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on 25 October 1969. The elections were the third held under the

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, and used an electoral college system.

Background

The National Congress had been closed since

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was issued on 13 December 1968. President

Artur da Costa e Silva Artur da Costa e Silva (; 3 October 1899 – 17 December 1969) was a Brazilian Army Marshal and the second president of the Brazilian military government that came to power after the 1964 coup d'état. He reached the rank of Marshal of the Br ...

left office on 14 October due to ill health, later dying on 17 December. Vice-President

Pedro Aleixo Pedro Aleixo (1 August 1901 – 3 March 1975) served as President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1937 and as the 16th vice president of Brazil from 15 March 1967 to 14 October 1969. As President of the Chamber of Deputies he witnessed the coup d' ...

was not allowed to replace Costa e Silva, so the

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and the

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were reopened to elect the a President and Vice-President, under the Instituctional Act 16. The candidacies of

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and vice

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were approved on the

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's national convention on 16 October.

Results

Voting took place in the National Congress on 25 October. There were discourses from

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from

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, Filinto Muller from

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and

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from MDB.

References

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