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Removal of President João Goulart
Auro empossa Mazzilli.jpg 300 Auro de Moura Andrade (right) swears in Ranieri Mazzilli (left) as President of Brazil after the declaration of vacancy in the presidency Vacância da Presidência do Brasil em 1964 Portuguese 1964 04 02 (02 April 1964) Brazilian National Congress Overthrow of João Goulart Unconstitutional removal of a president
Overthrow of João Goulart
Inauguration of Ranieri Mazzilli
1964 Brazilian presidential election
Start of Military dictatorship in Brazil
With the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, on April 2 the National Congress of Brazil declared the presidency of the Republic occupied by João Goulart vacant. Since the vacancy was foreseen for the president's departure from the country without the authorization of Congress, which was not the case, the act had no constitutional support. However, it formalized the coup, transferring the position to the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Ranieri Mazzilli, until the indirect election of General Castelo Branco, the first military president of the dictatorship (1964-1985), days later.
The Brazilian Executive Branch pt Poder Executivo do Brasil Executive and Brazilian Legislative Branch pt Poder Legislativo do Brasil Legislative branches had clashed in Goulart's government, which failed to pass its Base reforms pt Reformas de base base reforms in Congress and in its final stages governed without a parliamentary majority. Some congressmen participated in the conspiracy against his government, such as Auro de Moura Andrade, president of the Federal Senate. With the beginning of the coup, General Nicolau Fico, the army commander in Brasília, had to choose between garrisoning Congress and policing the city, as Auro wished, or not offering this support, as Goulart and Darcy Ribeiro, the head of the President's Civil Cabinet, wanted. The president was in the city on the 1st, but in the evening he went to Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul.
When he left, General Fico had sided with the President of the Senate and Congress had been summoned to a joint session. The 1946 Brazilian Constitution defined three forms of removal of the President of the Republic: resignation, which did not occur, impeachment, for which the opposition would not have the votes, and vacancy after unauthorized departure from the country. Although Goulart's whereabouts were communicated to the parliamentarians, Auro de Moura Andrade declared the presidency vacant and quickly closed the tumultuous early morning session. With the acquiescence of the Judiciary, Ranieri Mazzilli was sworn in at 03:45 am. His inauguration and a subsequent indirect election were provided for by law, but not the vacancy under those conditions. Meanwhile, on April 2 Goulart still had some power in Porto Alegre, which could even lead to duality of government, but he did not want the conflict and went to the interior of the state. Only on April 4 did he leave the country, heading for Uruguay.
The declaration of the vacancy occurred as Goulart's government collapsed with the coup and it was the participation of Congress that was important in its outcome to confer legitimacy on it, but in the new balance of power Congress fell short of the military. In 2013 Congress symbolically annulled the session.
Goulart's relationship with Congress
thumb|200px|Mazzilli hands the presidential sash to Goulart in 1961|left
The political system in the Populist Republic was dominated by three parties, the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Democratic Union (UDN) and the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB). PSD and PTB were allied for most of this period.Carvalho 2007 President Goulart was from the PTB, which had 28.4% of the seats in the Chamber in the 1962 legislative elections, and thus depended on the PSD, with 28.9%; however, he ended up governing without a majority, just like his predecessor, Jânio Quadros, who also did not make it to the end of his term.Ribeiro 2013 113 The PSD, a mediating force located in the center, destabilized the system when it ceased to balance it:Ribeiro 2016 35 from 1963 on, he was on the side of the UDN opposition, being "faithful of the balance" in the fall of the president.Carvalho 2007
Goulart's government was marked by conflicts between the Executive and Legislative branches.Ribeiro 2013 153 Due to the great polarization, few projects were approved in the Legislative, including proposals from the Executive.Ribeiro 2016 37-38 The number of actors with veto power, including the two parliamentary fronts (Nationalist Parliamentary Front and Parliamentary Democratic Action), was high, preventing changes from taking place.Ribeiro 2016 81-83
The president got legislative support to bring forward the referendum on presidentialism, regaining the powers lost to the Parliamentary Republic (Brazil) pt República Parlamentarista (Brasil) parliamentary republic,Ribeiro 2013 113 but Congress overturned a constitutional amendment for land reform in May 1963.Ribeiro 2013 135 Land reform would be one of the basic reforms, the PTB's ambition.Ribeiro 2013 87 With the loss of support for the president in Congress and the PSD's swing to the right, it became difficult to carry out the reforms through it.Ribeiro 2013 148-149 This is attributed both to the president's political incapacity, as done by politicians at the time and later authors (Elio Gaspari and Marco Antonio Villa), and, conversely, to the social conflict of the moment making it impossible to build support in Congress.Ribeiro 2013 114-115 The basic reforms are also accused, as by Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos pt Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos, of being, except for the agrarian one, obscure and unclear, only exposed in the presidential message to Congress in 1964, with little initiative taken by the president. However, they had been discussed in society since before Goulart's government. The controversy was that they benefited and harmed certain sectors of society.Ribeiro 2013 79 and 95-97
Candidates opposed to the reforms advocated by the left were financed by the Brazilian Institute for Democratic Action, with foreign financial involvement, in the 1962 elections.Ribeiro 2016 39 Members of the UDN and PSD participated in the conspiracies that would lead to the coup of 1964.Ribeiro 2013 166-171 The request for a state of siege in November 1963 was rejected by the left and right and defeated by the parliamentarians, demonstrating the president's isolation.Ribeiro 2013 164 In the last moments of his government, as in the Central Rally, the president, as desired by the left, abandoned conciliation and sought to mobilize popular pressure to get the reforms from Congress, thus alarming conservative congressmen.Ribeiro 2013 173-183Ribeiro 2016 30-31
Brasília during the coup d'état
Military situation in the Central Plateau
On March 31, 1964, the 4th Military Region (Brazil) pt 4.ª Região Militar es 4.ª Región Militar (Brasil) 4th Military Region, in Minas Gerais, went into revolt against the government and started an offensive towards the former capital in Guanabara. At midnight the Second Army, from São Paulo, joined the coup and also advanced against Rio de Janeiro. Both the Second Army and the 4th Military Region also ordered operations against the new capital.Silva 2014a 348-350Silva 2014b 175-176 The 16th Light Infantry Battalion, a Second Army unit based in Cuiabá, entered Goiás by road and air transport.D'Aguiar 1976 171-172 In Brasília the Military Command and the 11th Military Region pt 11.ª Região Militar, headed by General Nicolau Fico, were in a confused situation, with many officers rejecting the government's authority.D'Aguiar 1976 169 The 4th Company of the Presidential Guard Battalion (BGP) left Brasília to defend the Goiás/Minas border.Motta 2003, Tomo 15, p. 261-266, Tomo 5, p. 287-293, e Tomo 7, p. 213-217. As the border was still unoccupied, the 10th Battalion of the Military Police of Minas Gerais was hurriedly transferred to prevent the BGP from entering Minas Gerais territory. Later on April 1, knowing that the First Army, in Rio de Janeiro, had joined the coup, the BGP retreated.Silva 2014b 189-192 Subsequently, Caicó Detachment pt Destacamento Caicó reinforcements from the Minas Gerais police and Army converged on Brasília.Silva 2014b 177
Congress status
Auro de Moura Andrade published a manifesto breaking the Senate from the government and calling for the Armed Forces to intervene in the political process.Inácio 2010 68 However, on the night of the 31st he protested in the plenary: the coming and going of parliamentarians was impossible with the blocking of the airport and highways. Radio and television were under censorship and he could not address the nation: the chief of police in the Federal District had seized the videotape of his speech.Correio da Manhã 1964 "Brasília isolada: protesto de Auro", p. 3 The transfer of the Congress to another city was under consideration: Mauro Borges Teixeira pt Mauro Borges Teixeira Mauro Borges, governor of Goiás, offered Goiânia,Correio da Manhã 1964 "Mauro quer congressistas em Goiânia", p. 3. and on the 30th Deputy Herbert Levy (politician) Herbert Levy pt Herbert Levy arz هيربيرت_ليڤى had talked about a transfer to São Paulo or Belo Horizonte.Duarte 1964 139 In Congress, "the stage for harsh, vehement dialogues,Silva 2014a 374 congressmen anxiously followed the news of the adhesion of General Amaury Kruel, commander of the Second Army.Gaspari 2014 Congressman Francisco Julião claimed to have 60,000 armed men from the Peasant Leagues willing to defend the government, which was nothing but bravado, but it intimidated the congressmen.Ferreira 2011 500
Auro's greatest fear was about the agglomeration at the Teatro Experimental de Brasília, which, it was said, would attack the deputies' apartments. So he requested an army presence around the Congress and in the city, but he was not granted.Silva 2014a 377-379 In the Theater, Darcy Ribeiro, head of Goulart's Civil Cabinet, had organized about a thousand Candango pt Candango candangos on the morning of the 1st to, according to him, peacefully occupy the Chamber and Senate on the following day. Elio Gaspari also registers the participation of the Grupos dos Onze pt Grupos dos Onze in the organization and that they could be the starting point for a popular militia; they informed name, address and profession, were registered by the Civil Servants Union and were to receive on the following day, in a rural colonization nucleus, weapons and instructions.Ribeiro 2012Gaspari 2014 "O Exército dormiu janguista" In another moment, the head of the Civil Cabinet handed weapons and a list of politicians to be arrested or executed (depending on the version), among them the presidents of the Supreme Court (STF) and Senate, to two leaders of the Communist Party - Brazilian Section of the Communist International pt Partido Comunista - Seção Brasileira da Internacional Comunista Communist Party. They refused the act, considering it terrorism.Gaspari 2014 "O Exército acordou revolucionário"
Goulart arrived in Brasília on the 1st from Rio de Janeiro, but flew to Porto Alegre at night. In Brasília he was isolated and under military risk.Inácio 2010 60-61 General Fico swore loyalty, although it was doubtful.Faria 2013 437 The president's allies predicted an impeachment attempt in Congress; congressman Tancredo Neves imagined a situation equivalent to that of presidents Café Filho and Carlos Luz. They considered it essential, in order to avoid it, that the security of Congress should remain with the police, without the Army going out into the streets; the Army's presence would stimulate Congress to act against the President of the Republic. Thus, General Fico was supposed to collaborate. However, on their way back from the airport they found the Esplanade of the Ministries occupied by the Army, which had ignored Jango's wishes and started carrying out the order of the Senate President. Congress was illuminated: "The process of parliamentary struggle had begun."Silva 2014a 380-381
The statement at the Congress
Legal aspects
right|200px|thumb|Ranieri Mazzilli elected to the presidency of the Chamber before the coup
Under the 1946 Constitution, there were three ways to remove the president of the Republic: impeachment, resignation or, according to art. 85,Forattini 2019 150
The President and the Vice-President of the Republic cannot leave the country without the permission of the National Congress, under penalty of losing their office.Constituição de 1946 dos Estados Unidos do Brasil.
Goulart did not resign and the opposition knew it did not have the votes necessary for an impeachment.Forattini 2019 150 PTB was prepared for impeachment and could prevent or delay it within the Rules of Procedure, if necessary for lack of a quorum. Likewise, during the Congress session in the early morning of the 2nd, a communiqué was read informing of the president's presence in Porto Alegre (in reality he was flying from Brasília to Porto Alegre).Inácio 2010 64 After Goulart left Porto Alegre, Mayor Sereno Chaise pt Sereno Chaise declared in the afternoon that he had left the country,Axt 2020 325 but Goulart was on his farms in Rio Grande do Sul until April 4,Inácio 2010 78 and only then did he go into exile in Uruguay.Forattini 2019 151 The congressmen had no patience to wait for the president to leave the country, and so the vacancy was declared without constitutional basis:Skidmore 1982 365 Goulart not only remained on national territory, but also informed Congress of this fact.Miranda 2018 165-166
The line of presidential succession was the president of the Republic, vice-president and president of the Chamber of Deputies. The president of the Republic elected in 1960, Jânio Quadros, had resigned in 1961. Goulart was the vice-president of the 1960 election and was sworn in after the Legality Campaign. The president of the Chamber was Ranieri Mazzilli.Inácio 2010 65 Thus, once the vacancy was declared, power was transferred to Mazzilli, obeying the line of succession defined in article 79.Skidmore 1982 365 The pro-coup press praised the constitutionality of the succession, but did not consider the conditions under which the vacancy was declared, taking it for granted.Forattini 2019 151
Joint session
Around midnight, Auro de Moura Andrade was meeting with the leaders of the PSD and UDN, and Tancredo Neves suspected that they were plotting Goulart's deposition. Suspecting that he would be declared in an uncertain place or outside the country, Waldir Pires drafted an official letter, to be signed by Darcy Ribeiro, clarifying the president's whereabouts. A joint session of the National Congress began, attended by 212 congressmen (29 senators and 183 deputies). Due to the tumult, it was suspended for 20 minutes. It was during the suspension that Pedro Aleixo allegedly, Tancredo Neves was informed, suggested a summary coup, making the statement and suspending the session. When the session was reopened, Auro declared that Goulart had left the government.Silva 2014a 381-382 At the insistence of the governing bench, he allowed the reading of the letter signed by Darcy Ribeiro:Inácio 2010 64
The President of the Republic has asked me to inform Your Excellency that, due to the national events of the last few hours, in order to preserve the mandate given to him by the people from criminal act, investing him as Head of the Executive Power, he has decided to travel to Rio Grande do Sul, where he and his Ministry are at the head of the legalistic military troops and in the full exercise of their constitutional powers.
Without answering this, Auro continued:Inácio 2010 64-65
Mr. President of the Republic left the seat of government... left the Nation acephalous in a very serious hour of Brazilian life in which it is necessary that the Head of State remains at the head of his Government.
Mr. President of the Republic has abandoned the government. The acefalia continues. There is a need for the National Congress, as the civil power, to immediately take the attitude that is its responsibility, under the terms of the Constitution, in order to restore, in this troubled country, the authority of the Government, the existence of the Government. We cannot allow Brazil to be without Government, abandoned.
It is the Bureau that is responsible for the fate of Brazil's hard-pressed population.
Therefore, I declare the Presidency of the Republic vacant and, according to the terms of Article 79 of the Federal Constitution, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Mr. Ranieri Mazzilli, takes office.
The session ended at 03:00 in the morning. Auro closed the session, turning off the speaker and the lights in the Plenary.Inácio 2010 65 The atmosphere had been heavy, with both cheers and protests and turmoil.Silva 2014a 381-385 The vacancy decree was not voted on by the parliamentarians, but only communicated by the president of the Senate. The allied base tried to obstruct this declaration,Ribeiro 2013 205 and, under great uproar, tried to reopen the session.Inácio 2010 65 Despite having a few MPs of great physical vigor forming a personal safety device,Silva 2014a 381 Auro was slapped by deputy Rogê Ferreira, but managed to quickly get out to Ranieri Mazzilli's office.Inácio 2010 65
Fearing a crowd at the bus station and lacking full confidence in the Army, Congress had on hand, on loan from Mauro Borges, three machine guns at strategic points and some ammunition. Two military congressmen were working on security.Silva 2014a 385Faria 2013 453 Darcy Ribeiro also mentions the sending of goons by the Goias governor.Ribeiro 2012
In 2013, Congress annulled the session on a symbolic basis.G1 2013
Relevance
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Auro de Moura Andrade's declaration of the vacancy of Goulart's office was made when the disintegration of the government was perceptible.Schwarcz Starling 2015 cap. 17 Before the statement, Deputy Pedro Aleixo said that the attitude was expected by the military.Inácio 2010 62 It is referred to as a precipitation of events, with the deposition of Goulart;Schwarcz Starling 2015 cap. 17 the Legislative's strategic participation in the coup;Ferreira Gomes 2014 cap.22 the consummation of the coup;Bandeira 1978 183 and a legitimate-looking outcome.Gaspari 2014 It was important to give legitimacy to the new regime in the face of public opinion.Ribeiro 2013 206 On the other hand, the first Institutional Act No. 1 pt Ato Institucional n.º 1 Institutional Act (AI), days later, explicitly denied that Congress gave legitimacy to the "Revolution" because, in its words, "the victorious revolution (...) legitimizes itself" and "the constitutional processes did not work to unseat the government"; the Act recognized the break with the previous normativity, and the "Revolution" was not restricted by it.Silva 2017 75-76 and 82It is thus quite clear that the revolution does not seek to legitimize itself through Congress. It is this Institutional Act, resulting from the exercise of the Constituent Power, inherent to all revolutions, that legitimizes it.
Statements from military personnel recognize the lack of Congressional obstacles to the deposition of the president and its role in institutionalizing the coup, but while some evaluate positively the motivations of the congressmen, for others they were opportunistic.Atassio 2007 109-111 Most congressmen justified the measure as a way to restore public order and defend the democratic regime from a socialist revolution or from carrying out base reforms without the consent of Congress. For them, the president of the Senate was only complying with the Constitution, and this compliance gave a democratic character to his action. According to Senator Wilson Gonçalves pt Wilson Gonçalves, "there was abandonment - a fact. It was not our place, because we are judges, to investigate the causes of the fact. We would have to take the fact and look for it, in an effort to save Democracy, in an effort to reestablish the absolute and full rule of our Constitution". However, congressmen from the PTB and the Nationalist Parliamentary Front denounced the act, such as Senator Oscar Passos, for whom the session was conducted in a "brutal, illegal and violent" way.Ribeiro 2013 206-208
For months before the coup, Auro de Moura Andrade participated in the conspiratorial group of Marshal Cordeiro de Farias pt Cordeiro de Farias and São Paulo Governor Ademar de Barros.Ribeiro 2013 167 In his memoirs, he justified his action at the time of the coup: "no nation can sleep without a president"; "What I needed was to dismiss the president, in order to liberate the III Army and relieve it from fighting against those who had risen up in defense of constitutional integrity".Atassio 2007 109 On April 2, the Third Army's adhesion to the coup was still incomplete.Axt 2020 Auro also had a personal motive: in July 1962, during the parliamentary regime, the president nominated him as Prime Minister, under the condition that he kept a letter of resignation. Two days later, while Auro was concluding the negotiations for his ministry, Goulart used this letter to remove him from his post.Inácio 2010 67
The course of events up to Castelo Branco's inauguration was remarkably similar to that envisaged in a 1963 American contingency plan: Goulart would be "persuaded" to step aside and Ranieri Mazzilli would occupy his position until the election of a new president by Congress. This was the third hypothesis of the plan. The second envisaged the formation of an "alternative provisional government" that could request American support, especially logistical, in a conflict with the Jango supporters. This provisional government is associated both with the administration that emerged from the action of Congress and the initiative of the governor of Minas Gerais, Magalhães Pinto, who appointed Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco (nephew) pt Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco (sobrinho) Afonso Arinos as secretary of government to obtain recognition abroad of a state of belligerency.Faria 2013 60-63Bandeira 1978 183See also Brazil–United States relations during the João Goulart government#The plans and Operation Brother Sam#Provisional government and state of belligerency.
Presidential succession
Mazzilli's inauguration
Darcy Ribeiro planned to prevent the inauguration by isolating Congress, cutting off the water and electricity, and preventing the motorcade from entering the Planalto Palace, but the few remaining legalist military were too indecisive.Ferreira 2011 501 Ranieri Mazzilli had "the smallest inauguration party of a president in the republican history". With Auro and the president of the Supreme Court (STF), Justice Álvaro Moutinho Ribeiro da Costa pt Álvaro Moutinho Ribeiro da Costa Ribeiro da Costa, he drove in a few cars to the Palace.Gaspari 2014 "O Exército acordou revolucionário" Four armed deputies served as security.Silva 2014a 386 The president of the STF represented there the approval of the judiciary to the coup, although the STF did not conspire against Goulart or actively participate in his overthrow.Valério 2010 48-49 The Planalto was dark, and a deputy climbed the stairs by the light of matches.Gaspari 2014 "O Exército acordou revolucionário" Two others searched the building, where some ushers were sleeping in their armchairs, and managed to get one to open the doors. The inauguration took place at 03:45 am, on the third floor, with some deputies present.Silva 2014a 386
A member of the entourage suggested the presence of a general. The one found, by telephone, was General André Fernandes de Sousa pt André Fernandes de Sousa André Fernandes, without command or prestige.Ferreira 2011 501 General Fico had been invited, but was undecided.Faria 2013 453 He was found on the fourth floor, in the company of Waldir Pires and Darcy Ribeiro. Three deputies went up to convince him to participate, but he would not come down.Silva 2014a 386 A tense argument arose between Fico and Darcy Ribeiro about his loyalty, since he was already taking orders from General Costa e Silva, who had taken over the Ministry of War in Rio de Janeiro. Darcy called him a "monkey traitor".Gaspari 2014 "O Exército acordou revolucionário"Faria 2013, p. 452, situates this confrontation before the session in Congress. He and Waldir Pires, the last representatives of janguism in the Planalto, left by private elevator.Silva 2014a 386 Mazzilli began his government in Brasília, but power was concentrated in the military constituted in the Comando Supremo da Revolução pt Comando Supremo da Revolução Supreme Command of the Revolution in Rio de Janeiro.Miranda 2018 165-166
Castelo Branco's election
200px|right|thumb|Mazzilli hands over the presidential sash to Castelo Branco
Upon arriving in Rio Grande do Sul, Goulart intended to reinstall his government in Porto Alegre, which would set up a dual government in Brazil. The loyalist civilians were mobilized in the city and the Third Army command was legalistic, but the loyalist troops were still few, a military defeat was imminent and Jango did not want bloodshed. So at 11:30 am on the 2nd he left the city, headed for São Borja, and then on to Uruguay.Axt 2020Miranda 2018 165-166
Mazzilli's term of office was temporary. The Constitution provided:
Art. 79 § 2º - When the offices of President and Vice-President of the Republic become vacant, elections shall be held sixty days after the last vacancy occurs. If the vacancies occur in the second half of the presidential term, the election for both positions will be held thirty days after the last vacancy, by the National Congress, in the manner established by law. In either case, those elected shall complete the term of their predecessors.
AI-1, granted by the Supreme Command of the Revolution on April 9, anticipated the choice of the new president to two days later. The indirect election determined General Castelo Branco as the successor. The Act strengthened the Executive Branch to the detriment of the Legislative Branch and defined the guidelines for purging the civil service and the legislatures. It expressed the supremacy of the military over Congress, since its implementation ignored a more limited law proposed by PSD and UDN congressmen. The preamble of the Act defined that the dissolution of Congress was the prerogative of the unrestricted power of the "Revolution", but that it chose to retain it.Skidmore 1982 371-374Forattini 2019 152-157
Notes
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News
Correio da Manhã 1964-04-01 http://memoria.bn.gov.br/pdf/089842/per089842_1964_21777.pdf Rio de Janeiro pt-br Correio da Manhã 1964
Congresso anula sessão que depôs João Goulart da Presidência em 1964 G1 http://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2013/11/congresso-anula-sessao-que-depos-joao-goulart-da-presidencia-em-1964.html 2021-11-28 pt-br G1 2013
External links
Minutes of the joint session of April 2, 1964 in the Congressional Record
Audio of the session on the Chamber's website
Category:1964 Brazilian coup d'état