The vice president of Brazil ( portuguese : Vice-Presidente do Brasil ), formally the vice president of the Federative Republic of Brazil ( Vice-Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil ), or merely the Vice President of the Republic ( Vice-Presidente da República ) is the second-highest rank government official in the administrator branch of the Government of Brazil, preceded lone by the president of the united states. The Vice President ‘s basal function is to replace the president of the united states on the event of their death, resignation, or impeachment, and to temporarily take over the presidential powers and duties while the President is afield, or otherwise temporarily unable to carry out their duties. The Vice President is elected jointly with the president as their run copulate. The office has existed since the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889, although it was entirely formally instituted as of the 1891 Constitution. It has been in invest throughout all of Brazil ‘s republican history, save for the fifteen years of the Vargas Era, when it was abolished .

Requirements [edit ]

The requirements to run for the office of Vice President are precisely those of the Presidency itself. In accession to the ordinary requirements to run for political function in Brazil, under the terms of article 14 of the Constitution, a candidate for the Vice Presidency must be a natural born citizen of Brazil ( which under sealed circumstances may include the young of one or two brazilian parents living afield ) and be at least 35 years of age .

election and tenure [edit ]

The President and Vice President are elected on a one ticket for a four-year terminus and are inaugurated on 1 January of the year following that of the election. Both may be re-elected for a subsequent term.

If the Vice President succeeds a sitting President, he or she may be reelected for an extra term. however, he or she is not eligible to run for a second full terminus, as under brazilian jurisprudence any fond term counts toward the specify of two back-to-back terms. This restrict applies whenever the Vice President serves as Acting President when the President is either abroad or suspended from office as a result of impeachment .

Workplace and official residency [edit ]

The Vice President works in an annex build up of the Palácio do Planalto. The official residency of the Vice President is the Palácio do Jaburu, inaugurated in 1977 .

rise to the presidency [edit ]

Since the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889, eight Vice Presidents have been called upon to replace former Presidents : four due to death of the incumbent ( Nilo Peçanha, Delfim Moreira, Café Filho, and José Sarney ), two due to resignation ( Floriano Peixoto and João Goulart ), and two due to impeachment conviction [ a ] ( Itamar Franco and Michel Temer ).

list of frailty presidents [edit ]

Vice presidents elect directly
Vice presidents elect indirectly

Living former frailty presidents [edit ]

As of 2 January 2022, there are two living early vice presidents. The most recent death of a former frailty president was that of Marco Maciel ( 1995–2002 ), on 12 June 2021.

See besides [edit ]

Notes [edit ]

  1. ^ President Fernando Collor de Mello was impeached by the Chamber of Deputies, but resigned before being convicted in the Senate, resulting in Itamar Franco becoming President while the test of Collor continued ( finally resulting in a conviction and his disqualification from populace function for eight years ) .

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