1989 Brazilian presidential election

Second round results

Presidential elections were held in Brazil in 1989. The first round was on November 15 and the second round on December 17. They were the first direct presidential elections since 1960. They were the first elections using a two-round system and the first under the 1988 constitution. This was the first democratic election since the fall of the military dictatorship.[source?]

President José Sarney of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), the MBD's successor, was ineligible to run. Popular Governor of Alagoas Fernando Collor de Mello resigned as governor to run for president.[1][2] His television campaign ads made him from a dark horse candidate to a front-runner presidential candidate.[3] Collor chose Senator Itamar Franco as his running mate.[4]

Popular labor leader and member of the Chamber of Deputies Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula,[5] ran as a progressive left-wing political candidate.[6] Lula was widely known in Brazil for his role leading the highly publicized metalworkers' strike during the late 1970s.[7] Lula ran as a member of the Workers' Party (PT).

In the first round of voting, Collor won 30.48% of the vote against Lula's 17.19%. In the second round, Collor defeated Lula, winning 53.03% against 46.97%. Collor became the first democratically-elected President of Brazil in almost thirty years. Collor would later resign from office because of an impeachment trial.[8]

References

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  1. ↑ "A guerra ao turbante". Abril. Veja.com. 23 March 1988. Archived from the original on 17 March 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2012. No seu papel de caçador de marajás, o alagoano Fernando Collor de Mello torna-se um dos governadores mais populares do país
  2. ↑ Brooke, James (1992-11-08). "Looting Brazil (Published 1992)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  3. ↑ Haroldo Ceravolo, Sereza (2009-11-15). "Relação com a Globo 'ajudou bastante', lembra Collor; senador diz ter pensado, na véspera, que perderia a eleição". Noticias.uol.com.br. UOL.
  4. ↑ "Roadmap to Brazil's presidency: win in Minas Gerais". The Brazilian Report. 2018-08-20. Archived from the original on 2020-07-01. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  5. ↑ Ramalho, José Ricardo; Rodrigues, Iram Jácome (August 2018). "Sindicalismo do ABC e a Era Lula: Contradições e Resistências". Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política (104): 67–96. doi:10.1590/0102-067096/104. ISSN 0102-6445.
  6. ↑ Elizangela (2018-01-21). "Brizola 1989: eleições livres ou golpe?". PDT (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  7. ↑ Richard Bourne (19 October 2009). Lula of Brazil: The Story So Far. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520261556.
  8. ↑ "Brazil President Resigns in Wake of Impeachment". Los Angeles Times. 1992-12-30. Retrieved 2020-12-01.