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 2,131,547 members as of 2022.
Veja is a Brazilian weekly news magazine published in São Paulo and distributed throughout the country by media conglomerate Grupo Abril. It is the leading weekly publication in the country and one of the most influential outlets of the Brazilian printed media. Veja publishes articles on politics,economics,culture,world events,entertainment,and war. It also regularly includes editorial pieces related to themes like technology,ecology,and religious debate. It has recurring sections on cinema,television,practical literature,music,and guides on diverse subjects. It has been described as politically aligned with right-wing movements,though it does not describe itself as such.
Ellen Gracie Northfleet is a Brazilian judge. She is the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Brazil and the Court's first female president.
Heloísa Helena Lima de Moraes Carvalho is a Brazilian nurse,schoolteacher,and politician,member of the political party Rede Sustentabilidade. She is the Brazilian woman to have received the third highest voting in a presidential race,ranking behind Marina Silva and Dilma Rousseff in 2010.
Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil,holding the position from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first woman to have held the Brazilian presidency and had previously served as chief of staff to former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.
Aloízio Mercadante Oliva is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the Chief of Staff of Brazil between 2014 and 2015. He was a founder of the Workers' Party in February 1980 and vice-chairman of the party between 1991 and 1999,then state senator from São Paulo between 2003 and 2010. From 2011 to 2012 he was Minister of Science,Technology and Innovation in Brazil,and in 2012 he became Minister of Education,due to Fernando Haddad's departure to run for mayor of São Paulo.
JoséRenan Vasconcelos Calheiros is a Brazilian politician and former President of the Senate of Brazil. He has represented the state of Alagoas in the senate as a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party since 1 February 1995. Renan's presidency of the Brazilian Senate,a term that started 1 February 2013,was revoked on 5 December 2016 by a minister of the Brazilian Supreme Court,Marco Aurélio Mello,who said that a person under investigation could not be in the line of succession for the presidency. However the Supreme Court decided 7 December 2016 that Renan could remain senate president,without being in the succession.
Alfredo Pereira do Nascimento is Brazil's businessman,linguist,mathematician and politician affiliated with the Liberal Party,former minister of Transport. He is a member of the Republic Party,and was the party's president until he resigned in 2016 in support of the Impeachment process against Dilma Rousseff. He was Minister of Transportation on three occasions during the Lula and Dilma Rousseff governments. He has occasionally been at odds with environmental minister Carlos Minc over projects in Amazonas and Rondônia. Nascimento was mayor of Manaus in the year 1988 and between 1997 until 2004,when he resigned to take over the Ministry of Transport of Brazil
Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia is a Brazilian politician,lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 31 December 2018. He took office after the impeachment and removal from office of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff. He had been the 24th vice president of Brazil since 2011 and acting president since 12 May 2016,when Rousseff's powers and duties were suspended pending an impeachment trial.
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.
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.
Events in the year 2016 in Brazil:
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.
The impeachment proposal against Michel Temer,the former President of Brazil and former vice-president,consisted of an open procedural matter with a goal to preventing the continuation of the mandate of Michel Temer as vice president/acting president of the Republic of Brazil. Temer served as Acting President during the Impeachment process against Dilma Rousseff. The process began with the performance of judicial decision on April 6,2016,the President of the Chamber of Deputies,Eduardo Cunha,to form commission for termination analysis of liability for crime offered by Mariel M. Marra. Four other requests for impeachment were presented to Cunha.
Gladson de Lima Cameli is a Brazilian politician and engineer. He has represented Acre in the Federal Senate since 2015. Previously,he was a deputy from Acre from 2007 to 2015. He is a member of the Progressive Party. He has been implicated in the Petrobras scandal.
Hélio Pereira Bicudo was a Brazilian jurist and politician.
Marcos Rogério da Silva Brito more commonly known as Marcos Rogério is a federal senator of Brazil representing his home state of Rondônia. He previously served in the chamber of deputies from 2011 to 2019.
Rodrigo Otavio Soares Pacheco is a Brazilian politician and lawyer,serving as the President of the Federal Senate and of the National Congress of Brazil. Although born in Rondônia,he has spent his political career representing Minas Gerais,having served as senator since 2019. He previously served in the chamber of deputies from 2015 to 2019.
The second inauguration of Dilma Rousseff as President of Brazil took place on Thursday,1 January 2015. She was sworn in again with Vice President Michel Temer. The ceremony began at 3 pm (BDT) at the Ulysses Guimarães plenary chamber in Brasília,and was administered by the President of the Federal Senate Renan Calheiros. Just like the first inauguration,the re-elect President and Vice President read and signed the oathes of office and the national anthem was played by the Marine Corps band.
The Michel Temer presidential inauguration was held on 31 August 2016. He was definitely sworn in as president after 3 months as acting president. His inauguration occurred after Dilma Rousseff impeachment process.
