Editing List of presidents of Brazil (section)

== Sixth Republic (1985–present) ==
{{Main|History of Brazil (1985–present)}}
[[File:Flag President of Brazil.svg|thumb|right|Brazilian Presidential Standard]]

In the early 1980s, the military government started a process of [[Redemocratization in Brazil|gradual redemocratization]], called ''abertura'', the final goal of which was democracy. When the term of the last military president was to end, however, no direct elections for President of Brazil took place. For the election of the country's first civilian president since the military coup of 1964, the military maintained the rule that prevailed during the dictatorial regime, according to which an Electoral College made up of the entire National Congress and representatives from State Assemblies was to elect the president. This time, however, the military placed the Electoral College under no coercion, so that its members would be free to select the president of their choice. The Chamber of Deputies and the State Assemblies had been elected, already under the ''abertura process'' in the [[1982 Brazilian legislative election|1982 parliamentary election]], but the senators were chosen indirectly, by the State Assemblies, under rules that had been passed by the military regime in 1977 to counter the growing support of the opposition: one third of the senators was chosen in 1982, and two thirds had been chosen in 1978. After the 1982 elections, the ruling party, PDS (the successor of the ARENA), still controlled a majority of the seats in the National Congress.

[[Tancredo Neves]], who had been prime minister during the presidency of João Goulart, was chosen to be the candidate of PMDB, the major opposition party (and the successor of the MDB Party, that had opposed the Military Regime since its inception), but Tancredo was also supported by a large political spectrum, even including a significant part of former members of ARENA, the party that supported the military presidents. In the last months of the military regime, a large section of ARENA members defected from the party, and now professed to be men of democratic inclinations. They formed the Liberal Front, and the Liberal Front Party allied itself to PMDB, forming a coalition known as the Democratic Alliance. PMDB needed the Liberal Front's support in order to secure victory in the Electoral College. In the formation of this broad coalition former members of ARENA also switched parties and joined PMDB. So, to seal this arrangement, the spot of vice-president in Tancredo Neves' ticket was given to José Sarney, who represented the former supporters of the regime that had now joined the Democratic Alliance. On the other hand, those who remained loyal to the military regime and its legacy renamed ARENA as the PDS. In the PDS's National Convention, two right-wing supporters of the military administrations fought for the party's nomination: Colonel Mário Andreazza, then Minister of the Interior in General Figueiredo's administration, was the preferred candidate of the incumbent president and of the military elite, but he was defeated by Paulo Maluf, a civilian and former governor of São Paulo State during the military regime. Tancredo's coalition defeated Maluf, and his election was hailed as the dawn of a New Republic. Andreazza's defeat (by 493 votes to 350) and the selection of Maluf as the PDS's presidential candidate greatly contributed to the split in the party that led to the formation of the Liberal Front. The Liberal Front refused to support Maluf and joined forces with the PMDB in supporting Tancredo Neves, thus forging the Democratic Alliance. Without that split in the PDS, the election of the opposition candidate would not have been possible.

Although elected President of Brazil, Tancredo Neves became gravely ill on the eve of his inauguration and died without ever taking office. Therefore, the first civilian president since 1964 was Tancredo's running mate, [[José Sarney]], himself an ex-member of ARENA. José Sarney's administration fulfilled Tancredo's campaign promise of passing a constitutional amendment to the Constitution inherited from the military regime, so as to summon elections for a [[1988 Constituent Assembly|National Constituent Assembly]] with full powers to draft and adopt a new Constitution for the country, to replace the authoritarian legislation that still remained in place. In October 1988, a new democratic Constitution was passed and democracy was consolidated. In 1989, the first elections for president under the new Constitution were held and the young [[Fernando Collor de Mello]] was elected for a five-year term, the first president to be elected by direct popular ballot since the military coup. He was inaugurated in 1990 and in 1992 he became the first president in Brazil to be impeached due to corruption. However, he resigned before the final verdict.

A [[1993 Brazilian constitutional referendum|referendum held in 1993]] (ahead of the 1993 and 1994 Constitutional Revision) allowed the people to decide the form of government of the state (monarchy or republic) for the first time since the proclamation of the Republic in 1889; the republican form of government prevailed. In the same referendum, the Brazilian people was able to choose again, for the first time since 1963, the system of Government (parliamentary or presidential) and the model of a presidential executive was retained. The revision was a unique opportunity to amend the Constitution with a reduced majority. Had a different form or system of government been chosen in the 1993 referendum, the new institutional structure would have been implemented during the Constitutional Revision. Both the Revision and the referendum on the form and system of government were summoned in the original text of the Constitution. The federal model of the state, retained in the 1988 Constitution, is declared by the Constitution as not subject to abolition, even by Constitutional Amendment. According to those tenets and to the results of the popular vote, only minor changes were made to the institutional framework of the State in the Constitutional Revision, including the adoption of a Constitutional Amendment that reduced the presidential term of office from five to four years.

In 1995, Fernando Henrique Cardoso was inaugurated for a four-year term. In 1997, a Constitutional Amendment was enacted allowing presidents of Brazil to be reelected to one consecutive term. In 1998, then President Fernando Henrique Cardoso became the first president of Brazil to be reelected for an immediately consecutive term. In 2003, [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] was inaugurated. He was reelected in 2006. In 2011, [[Dilma Rousseff]] became Brazil's first woman president. In 2015, she began her second term, but in 2016 the Senate of Brazil convicted her on [[Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff|impeachment charges]], and she was removed from office, being succeeded by [[Michel Temer]]. In 2018, [[Jair Bolsonaro]] was elected, taking office on 1 January 2019. In the 2022 elections, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who had served as Brazil's president from 2003 to 2010, was again elected president, becoming the first person to win three Brazilian presidential elections. Also in the 2022 elections, Jair Bolsonaro became Brazil's first first-term President to seek reelection for a second term and lose, since the possibility of reelection to an immediately consecutive second term was first created in Brazil in 1997.

;Political parties
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{| class="wikitable sticky-header" style=text-align:center;
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" | {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! rowspan="2" |Portrait
! rowspan="2" | Name<br>{{Small|(Birth–Death)}}
! rowspan="2" | Elected{{efn|name=election|Years in italics denote indirect elections.}}
! colspan="3" | Term of office{{Sfnmp|1a1=Arquivo Nacional}}
! rowspan="2" | Political party{{efn|name=party|Reflects the president's political party at the start of their presidency. Changes during their time in office are noted.}}
! rowspan="2" | Vice President
|-
! Took office
! Left office
!Time in office
|-
! —
| style="background-color:{{party color|Brazilian Democratic Movement Party}}" |
| [[File:Tancredo-neves-5_(cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Photograph of Tancredo Neves]]
| [[Tancredo Neves]]<br>{{small|(1910–1985)}}<br>{{Sfnmp|1a1=Ramos|1a2=Campos}}
| [[1985 Brazilian presidential election|''1985'']]
| colspan="3" |''Did not take office''{{efn|Died before taking office. Despite never occupying this position, Neves has to be included in the gallery of Presidents of Brazil by virtue of [http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/1980-1988/L7465.htm Law No. 7,465, of April 21, 1986].}}
| [[Brazilian Democratic Movement Party|PMDB]]
| [[José Sarney]]
|-
! [[Presidency of José Sarney|31]]
| style="background-color:{{party color|Brazilian Democratic Movement Party}}" |
| [[File:Foto_Oficial_Sarney_EBC.jpg|100px|alt=Presidential portrait of José Sarney]]
| [[José Sarney]]<br>{{small|({{abbr|b.|born in}} 1930)}}<br>{{Sfnmp|1a1=Dias|1a2=Lemos|1a3=Carneiro}}
| —
| 15 March 1985{{efn|Acting president from 15 March to 21 April 1985, date of death of president-elect Tancredo Neves.}}
| 15 March 1990
|5 years
| [[Brazilian Democratic Movement Party|PMDB]]
| ''Vacant throughout<br />presidency''
|-
! [[Presidency of Collor de Mello|32]]
| style="background-color:{{party color|National Reconstruction Party}}" |
| [[File:Foto oficial do presidente Fernando Collor de Melo. (38405801411).jpg|100px|alt=Presidential portrait of Fernando Collor]]
| [[Fernando Collor]]<br>{{small|({{abbr|b.|born in}} 1949)}}<br>{{Sfnmp|Lemos (e)}}
| [[1989 Brazilian presidential election|1989]]
| 15 March 1990
| 29 December 1992{{efn|name=resign}}
|{{Age in years and days|1990|3|15|1992|12|29}}
| [[National Reconstruction Party|PRN]]
| [[Itamar Franco]]
|-
! [[Presidency of Itamar Franco|33]]
| style="background-color:{{party color|Brazilian Democratic Movement Party}}" |
| [[File:Itamar_Franco_Faixa_Presidencial.jpg|100px|alt=Presidential portrait of Itamar Franco]]
| [[Itamar Franco]]<br>{{small|(1930–2011)}}<br>{{Sfnmp|Lemos & Carneiro (a)}}
| —
| 29 December 1992{{efn|Acting president from 29 September to 29 December 1992, due to an [[Impeachment of Fernando Collor|impeachment process]] opened against Fernando Collor. Itamar Franco succeeded to the presidency upon Collor's resignation.}}
| 1 January 1995
|{{Age in years and days|1992|12|29|1995|1|1}}
| [[Brazilian Democratic Movement Party|PMDB]]
| ''Vacant throughout<br />presidency''
|-
! [[Presidency of Fernando Henrique Cardoso|34]]
| style="background-color:#0058AA" |
| [[File:Fernando_Henrique_Cardoso_(1999).jpg|100px|alt=Second presidential portrait of Fernando Henrique Cardoso]]
| [[Fernando Henrique Cardoso|Fernando Henrique<br>Cardoso]]<br>{{small|({{abbr|b.|born in}} 1931)}}<br>{{Sfnmp|Lemos & Carneiro (b)}}
| [[1994 Brazilian general election|1994]]
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[[1998 Brazilian general election|1998]]
| 1 January 1995
| 1 January 2003
|8 years
| [[Brazilian Social Democracy Party|PSDB]]
| [[Marco Maciel]]
|-
! [[First presidency of Lula da Silva|35]]
| style="background-color:{{party color|Workers' Party (Brazil)}}" |
| [[File:Lula - foto oficial - 05 jan 2007 (cropped 5).jpg|100px|alt=Second presidential portrait of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]]
| [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]]<br>{{small|({{abbr|b.|born in}} 1945)}}<br>{{sfnmp|Biblioteca da Presidência da República (d)}}
| [[2002 Brazilian general election|2002]]
----
[[2006 Brazilian general election|2006]]
| 1 January 2003
| 1 January 2011
|8 years
| [[Workers' Party (Brazil)|PT]]
| [[José Alencar]]
|-
! [[Presidency of Dilma Rousseff|36]]
| style="background-color:{{party color|Workers' Party (Brazil)}}" |
| [[File:Dilma Rousseff - foto oficial 2011-01-09 (cropped2).jpg|100px|alt=Second presidential portrait of Dilma Rousseff]]
| [[Dilma Rousseff]]<br>{{small|({{abbr|b.|born in}} 1947)}}<br>{{sfnmp|Biblioteca da Presidência da República (e)}}
| [[2010 Brazilian general election|2010]]
----
[[2014 Brazilian general election|2014]]
| 1 January 2011
| 31 August 2016{{efn|name=impeachment}}
|{{Age in years and days|2011|1|1|2016|8|31}}
| [[Workers' Party (Brazil)|PT]]
| [[Michel Temer]]
|-
! [[Presidency of Michel Temer|37]]
| style="background-color:{{party color|Brazilian Democratic Movement}}" |
| [[File:Michel Temer (foto oficial) (cropped).jpg|alt=Presidential portrait of Michel Temer|135x135px]]
| [[Michel Temer]]<br>{{small|({{abbr|b.|born in}} 1940)}}<br>{{sfnmp|Biblioteca da Presidência da República (f)}}
| —
| 31 August 2016{{efn|Acting president from 12 May to 31 August 2016, due to an [[Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff|impeachment process]] opened against Dilma Rousseff. Michel Temer succeeded to the presidency upon Dilma's removal.}}
| 1 January 2019
|{{Age in years and days|2016|8|31|2019|1|1}}
| [[Brazilian Democratic Movement|MDB]]
| ''Vacant throughout<br />presidency''
|-
! [[Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro|38]]
| style="background: linear-gradient(#1D6434 22%, {{party color|None}} 22% 73%, #282F7D 73%);" |
| [[File:2019 Desfile Cívico por ocasião do Dia da Pátria - 48693201572 II.jpg|100px|alt=Photograph of Jair Bolsonaro]]
| [[Jair Bolsonaro]]<br>{{small|({{abbr|b.|born in}} 1955)}}<br>{{sfnmp|Biblioteca da Presidência da República (g)}}
| [[2018 Brazilian general election|2018]]
| 1 January 2019
| 1 January 2023
|4 years
| [[Social Liberal Party (Brazil)|PSL]]{{efn|Until 19 November 2019.{{Sfnmp|UOL}}}}
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''Unaffiliated''
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[[Liberal Party (Brazil, 2006)|PL]]{{efn|From 30 November 2021.{{Sfnmp|Agência Brasil}}}}
| [[Hamilton Mourão]]
|-
! [[Second presidency of Lula da Silva|39]]
| style="background-color:{{party color|Workers' Party (Brazil)}}" |
| [[File:Foto oficial de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (3x4 cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Third presidential portrait of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]]
| [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]]<br>{{small|({{abbr|b.|born in}} 1945)}}
| [[2022 Brazilian general election|2022]]
| 1 January 2023
| ''Incumbent''
|{{Age in years and days|2023|01|01}}
| [[Workers' Party (Brazil)|PT]]<br>{{small|([[Brazil of Hope]])}}
| [[Geraldo Alckmin]]
|}