The Brazilian Democratic Movement 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 as of July 2023.
Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who is the Chair of the New Development Bank since March 2023. Previously,she served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first woman to have held the Brazilian presidency. She also previously served as the chief of staff to former and current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.
General elections were held in Brazil on 3 October 2010 to elect the president,National Congress and state governors. As no presidential candidate received more than 50% in the first round of voting,a second round was held on 31 October to choose a successor to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT),who was constitutionally ineligible to run for a third term as he has already served two terms after winning the elections in 2002 and being re-elected in 2006.
Bulgarians have been settling in South America as economic emigrants since the late 19th century. Their presence has been documented in Uruguay since 1905,in Argentina since 1906 and in Brazil since the early 20th century.
With the Strength of the People,until 2014 named For Brazil to Keep on Changing,was a left-wing electoral coalition formed around the democratic socialist Workers' Party (PT) in Brazil for the 2010 presidential election. It consisted of ten parties:the Worker's Party (PT),Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB),Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB),Democratic Labour Party (PDT),Brazilian Republican Party (PRB),Party of the Republic (PR),Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB),Social Christian Party (PSC),Christian Labour Party (PTC) and National Labor Party (PTN). On October 14,they were unofficially joined by the Progressive Party (PP). The coalition's presidential candidate was Dilma Rousseff from the PT while the vice-presidential candidate was Michel Temer from the PMDB. They were finally elected on October 31,2010.
Maria do Rosário Nunes is a Brazilian teacher and politician. She graduated in pedagogy from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul,and took a postgraduate degree at the University of São Paulo. From 2011 to 2014,she served as the Secretary for Human Rights under the Rousseff administration. With the exception of her three-year tenure as Human Rights Secretary,she has been a congresswoman since 2003,representing the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul as a member of the Worker's Party (Brazil).
Army General JoséElito Carvalho Siqueira is a Brazilian Army general,former Chief-Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic.
General elections were held in Brazil on 5 October 2014 to elect the president,the National Congress,and state governorships. As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round on 5 October 2014,a second-round runoff was held on 26 October 2014.
The Social Democratic Party is a political party in Brazil led by Gilberto Kassab and uniting dissidents from various political parties,especially the Democrats,Brazilian Social Democracy Party and Party of National Mobilization.
In 2015 and 2016,a series of protests in Brazil denounced corruption and the government of President Dilma Rousseff,triggered by revelations that numerous politicians allegedly accepted bribes connected to contracts at state-owned energy company Petrobras between 2003 and 2010 and connected to the Workers' Party,while Rousseff chaired the company's board of directors. The first protests on 15 March 2015 numbered between one and nearly three million protesters against the scandal and the country's poor economic situation. In response,the government introduced anti-corruption legislation. A second day of major protesting occurred 12 April,with turnout,according to GloboNews,ranging from 696,000 to 1,500,000. On 16 August,protests took place in 200 cities in all 26 states of Brazil. Following allegations that Rousseff's predecessor,Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,participated in money laundering and a prosecutor ordered his arrest,record numbers of Brazilians protested against the Rousseff government on 13 March 2016,with nearly 7 million citizens demonstrating.
The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff,the 36th president of Brazil,began on 2 December 2015 with a petition for her impeachment being accepted by Eduardo Cunha,then president of the Chamber of Deputies,and continued into late 2016. Dilma Rousseff,then more than 12 months into her second four-year term,was charged with criminal administrative misconduct and disregard for the federal budget in violation of article 85,items V and VI,of the Constitution of Brazil and the Fiscal Responsibility Law,Article 36. The petition also accused Rousseff of criminal responsibility for failing to act on the scandal at the Brazilian national petroleum company,Petrobras,on account of allegations uncovered by the Operation Car Wash investigation,and for failing to distance herself from the suspects in that investigation.
Helder Zahluth Barbalho is a Brazilian administrator,politician,the current governor of the state of Pará,former Chief Minister of National Secretariat of Ports and Minister of Fishing and Aquaculture during the government of president Dilma Rousseff,and former Minister of National Integration,appointed by president Michel Temer.
Fiscal pedaling is a governmental creative accounting technique involving the use of state-owned banks to front funds required for paying general government obligations without officially declaring a loan,thus hiding these transfers from public scrutiny and delaying repayment from the Treasury to these banks. As such it is a kind of "overdraft" implying a positive balance sheet that does not really exist. Sometimes the term fiscal backpedaling is used.
Sônia Bone de Souza Silva Santos,usually known as Sônia Guajajara,is a Brazilian indigenous activist,environmentalist,and politician. A member of the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL),she was initially a candidate for President of Brazil in the 2018 Brazilian general election,before being chosen as the vice presidential running mate of nominee Guilherme Boulos. This made her the first indigenous person to run for a federal executive position in Brazil. In 2022,Guajajara was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time.
Janaina Conceição Paschoal is a Brazilian jurist and politician. She is a member of the Brazilian Labour Renewal Party (PRTB) since 2022,having been elected state representative of the State of São Paulo by the Social Liberal Party (PSL) from 2019 to 2023. She is also a lawyer and a law professor at the University of São Paulo.
Gilberto Magalhães Occhi is a Brazilian lawyer and politician member of the Progressistas (PP). He was Minister of Cities and of National Integration during the government of president Dilma Rousseff.
Ezequiel Teixeira is a Brazilian politician as well as a lawyer and pastor. He has spent his political career representing Rio de Janeiro,having been a state representative from 2015 to 2019.
Zenaide Maia Calado Pereira dos Santos,better known as Zenaide Maia,is a Brazilian politician and doctor. Although born in Paraíba,she has spent her political career representing Rio Grande do Norte,currently serving as a Senator. She previously served in the Chamber of Deputies,from 2015 to 2019,and as secretary of health in São Gonçalo do Amarante from 1991 to 1992 and from 2009 to 2011.
Luis Carlos Heinze is a federal senator of Brazil representing his home state of Rio Grande do Sul. He was previously served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1999 to 2019 and was mayor of São Borja from 1993 to 1996.
Marinha Célia Rocha Raupp de Matos more simply known as Marinha Raupp is a Brazilian politician as well as a psychologist and professor. Although born in São Paulo (state),she has spent her political career representing Rondônia,having served as state representative from 1995 to 2019.
