BRAZIL: AÉCIO NEVES INTERVIEW WITH THE SPANISH NEWSPAPER "EL PAÍS"

Friday, May 15, 2009

AÉCIO NEVES INTERVIEW WITH THE SPANISH NEWSPAPER "EL PAÍS"

"We have to decide which Brazil we want after Lula"
says Aécio Neves

Fernando Gualdoni From Madri

The outlook for Brazil's next presidential election is now unknown . On April 25th, the super-minister Dilma Roussef, right-arm of the president Lula and an aspirant to succeed him, revealed that she suffered from cancer. She had a tumor removed in the lymphatic system and now will undergo chemotherapy.
Roussef, 61 years old, doesn't work less than 15 hours daily. She is in charge of the ambicious Economic Growth Program to avoid the impact of the crisis in Brazil and she is on an ongoing campaign. Lula’s favorite one to represent the Workers' Party (PT), she has much ground to go before the social democrat Jose Serra, the Governor of São Paulo, and the socialist Ciro Gomes.
“I don’t believe that what has happened with Dilma will change, by this point, the electoral’s outlook. (...) Lula’s party has immediatly closed its position around Dilma”, explains Aécio Neves, the Governor of the powerfull state of Minas Gerais – which is the third richest region in Brazil and represents 10 % of the Brazilian GDP -, during his recent visit to Madrid.

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Tancredo Neves

Tancredo de Almeida Neves, SFO more commonly Tancredo Neves (Portuguese pronunciation: [tɐ͂ˈkɾedu ˈnɛvis]; March 4, 1910 - April 21, 1985) was a Brazilian politician. He was born in São João del Rei, in the state of Minas Gerais, and graduated in law. He began his political career as a member of the legislative chamber of his hometown in 1934, and was elected in 1947 to the Minas Gerais state legislature. Three years later he became a representative of his state in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. In 1953 he was appointed by President Getúlio Dornelles Vargas to be the Minister of Justice. Neves served in that post until Vargas committed suicide in 1954. In 1960, Neves ran unsuccessfully for governor of Minas Gerais.
During the political crisis that began with the resignation of President Jânio da Silva Quadros on August 25, 1961, a parliamentary system was installed in Brazil. Tancredo Neves was appointed as Prime Minister by President João Goulart and served from September 1961 until July 1962[1]. The parliamentary system was abolished by plebiscite in January 1963. Goulart was overthrown in 1964 and Neves, who had up to that point been considered a moderate politician, became an opponent to the military regime in the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB). He was elected senator in 1978 and governor of Minas Gerais in 1982. In 1984, he was one of the leaders of the Diretas Já movement that demanded direct elections for President of Brazil. Neves was the candidate of the opposition to succeed President João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo.
On January 15, 1985 Tancredo Neves was elected to the Presidency by a majority of the members of the Electoral College. However, just one day before he was scheduled to take the oath of office (March 15, 1985), Neves became severely ill. He suffered from abdominal complications and developed generalized infections. After seven operations, Tancredo Neves died on April 21, 1985 [2]. He was succeeded by José Sarney. Neves's ordeal was intensively covered by the Brazilian media and followed with anxiety by the whole nation, who had seen in him the way out of the authoritarian regime into what he had called a "New Republic" (Nova República). His death caused an outpouring of national grief. Tancredo Neves is counted among the official list of presidents of Brazil as a matter of homage and honour, since technically he never became president.
The Tancredo Neves International Airport in Belo Horizonte is named after him. The current governor of Minas Gerais, Aécio Neves, is the grandson of Tancredo Neves.

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