1989 Brazilian presidential election

The 1989 Brazilian presidential election was held in two rounds, with the first round being held on November 15, 1989 and the second round being held on December 17, 1989. It was the first direct presidential elections since 1960, the first to be held using a two-round system and the first to take place under the 1988 constitution, which followed two decades of authoritarian rule after the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état.

1989 Brazilian presidential election

15 November 1989 (first round)
17 December 1989 (second round)
Turnout88.07% (first round)
85.61% (second round)
 
Candidate Fernando Collor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Party PRN PT
Home state Alagoas[lower-alpha 1] São Paulo[lower-alpha 2]
Running mate Itamar Franco José Paulo Bisol
States carried 23 3 + DF
Popular vote 35,085,457 31,070,734
Percentage 53.03% 46.97%

Second round winner by state/district.

President before election

José Sarney
PMDB

Elected President

Fernando Collor
PRN

The collapse of the military junta-imposed two-party system[1] that pitted the right-wing authoritarian National Renewal Alliance (ARENA) against the catch-all Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) resulted in a wide array of new parties seeking to fill the political vacuum. President José Sarney of the PMDB, the MBD's successor, was ineligible to run. Sarney, who was elected Vice President on Tancredo Neves's ticket in the 1985 Brazilian presidential election, had taken office due to Neves's death before his scheduled inauguration.[2]

Popular Governor of Alagoas Fernando Collor de Mello resigned from his position to mount a bid for the presidency.[3] Previously a member of the PMDB, Collor joined the small National Reconstruction Party (PRN) in the run-up to the presidential campaign. Collor, who presented himself as a political outsider and was noted for his charisma,[4] polled at a mere 5% according to polling taken in early 1989.[5] Collor's emergence as an unlikely frontrunner was credited to his campaign's skilled use of television advertisements to make the case for his candidacy.[6] Collor, who had governed one of the smallest states in the country, chose Senator Itamar Franco of the populous and electorally crucial state of Minas Gerais as his running mate.[7] Further, Collor's campaign was noted for his relative youth at the mere age of 40.[8]

Following the end of state repression of socialist parties, the Brazilian Left faced a fractured field defined by two primary candidates: Popular labor leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, of the industrial ABC Region of São Paulo,[9] and Leonel Brizola, a longtime staple of the Brazilian Left who had served as Governor of Rio Grande do Sul prior to the 1964 military coup.[10] Lula was widely known in Brazil for his role leading the highly publicized metalworkers' strike in the State of São Paulo during the late 1970s[11] and had been elected a federal deputy in 1986 with the most votes nationwide.[12] Lula ran as a member of the Workers' Party (PT), a left-wing party he helped found in 1980. For his running mate, Lula chose Senator José Paulo Bisol of Rio Grande do Sul, a member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), to unite the left. In the first round, Lula narrowly defeated Brizola, who was running as a member of the Brazilian Labour Party (PDT), for a position in the runoff.[13]

The general election was marked by negative campaigning, with Collor accusing Lula of supporting divisive class struggle.[14] The role of popular commercial television Rede Globo in Collor's election remains controversial; in 2009 Collor admitted that the network favored his candidacy over Lula's.[15] The kidnapping of wealthy businessman Abilio Diniz on the day of the election by alleged supporters of the PT is believed to have harmed Lula, who was legally forbidden from speaking to the press on election day to disavow the crime due to Brazilian election rules.[16] Following a tumultuous election cycle, Collor defeated Lula to become the first democratically-elected President of Brazil in almost thirty years. Collor would later resign from office in the face of an impeachment trial.[17]

Background

On January 15, 1985, following two decades of a US-backed right-wing military dictatorship, in power since the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, Tancredo Neves of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, the opposition party in a military junta-imposed two-party system, was indirectly elected president by Congress. The government was an authoritarian illiberal democracy which directly elected representatives, but not the president. It was in a process of slow liberalization since the 1974 indirect election of Ernesto Geisel, who was more permissive of political dissent than his hard-liner predecessor, Emílio Garrastazu Médici. Neves was the first civilian to be elected president since 1960.

However, Neves was hospitalized of an untreated cancer on the eve of his inauguration, and finally died in 21 April, before taking office. José Sarney, the Vice-President-elect, was immediately sworn in. The legitimacy of Sarney's appointment was widely questioned, since Neves had died as president-elect without ever taking office. Sarney was seen with suspicion by the civilian population as a member of the military regime's party, the National Renewal Alliance. The support of General Leônidas Pires Gonçalves, slated to be Minister of the Army in Neves' future cabinet, was decisive for Sarney taking office.

Though Leonel Brizola was disappointed by his defeat in the first round, he wholeheartedly supported Lula in the second round, with his support being considered crucial to Lula's strong performance in Rio Grande do Sul and Brizola's adopted home state of Rio de Janeiro.[18]

Nevertheless, as promised by Neves, Sarney led a transitional government which allowed for liberalization of the authoritarian military government. In 1986, he called for elections to form a constituent assembly, which designed and promulgated the seventh and current constitution of Brazil on November 5, 1988. A markedly liberal democratic and social democratic constitution, it prescribed first-past-the-post two-round direct elections for executive and legislative seats at the federal, state, and municipal levels, and set the date for the 1989 election. It also provided for freedom of expression and legalized formerly clandestine parties such as the Brazilian Communist Party and the Brazilian Socialist Party.

History

Most political parties were relatively new but managed to actively mobilise the population, with the election coming five years after massive demonstrations for direct elections in the late 1980s Diretas Já movement had called for the end of the military regime. Sarney was barred by the 1988 constitution from running for immediate reelection in his own right. Twenty-two candidates entered the race, a record number of candidates in a single presidential election. The 1988 elections were the first in which the president and vice-president were jointly elected as running mates.

Among the twenty-two candidates, only Ulysses Guimarães and Paulo Maluf had previously run for the presidency, although Jânio Quadros planned to run but eventually dropped his candidacy. Aureliano Chaves had also previously served as vice-president. Orestes Quercia, a member of Sarney's Brazilian Democratic Movement, led the polls until he decided to drop out of the contest.[19] TV host Silvio Santos announced he would run just 20 days before the election, but his candidacy was mired in uncertainty and eventually revoked by the Superior Electoral Court because of a technicality.[20]

The first round took place on November 15, 1989, the 100th anniversary of the republican coup which deposed Pedro II of Brazil and proclaimed the First Brazilian Republic. Since no candidate managed to win a majority of votes, a second round was held on December 17, featuring the two top finishers: Fernando Collor de Mello of the economically liberal right-wing populist National Reconstruction Party and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the social democratic left-wing populist Workers' Party. Collor was elected with a 6-point lead.

Both candidates had a reputation as outsiders. Despite being a charismatic leader, Lula failed to attract the majority of votes from poor, unskilled and semiskilled workers – who would, later on, form the basis of the Workers' Party electorate. These voters predominantly favored Collor, who was associated with the traditional economic elites of northeastern Brazil. Lula's support was greater among progressive intellectuals, Catholic activists, skilled industrial workers, and the college-educated middle class of the South and Southeast, despite himself being a poor immigrant from the Northeast.

Collor argued that Lula's plans of aggressive spending on inequality reduction programs would destroy Brazil's then-fragile economy, harming the poor people he claimed to champion. He also appealed to his young age and distanced himself from the previous military governments, as well as from the newer political elites who had supported the Sarney government and its Plano Cruzado, which had failed to stop hyperinflation. His strong rhetoric against corruption gained widespread support, which quickly vanished in the wake of his 1992 impeachment for corruption charges.

Lula would go on to be elected president in the 2002 elections and to win a second term in the 2006 contest. The Workers' Party also won the presidency twice more with Dilma Rousseff, a protégé of Lula, in the 2010 and 2014 elections. The party would remain in power until her impeachment in 2016 and the 2018 election of right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro.

Rede Globo debate controversy

Following the first round, Rede Globo aired a debate between Lula and Collor live. During the broadcast of primetime news program Jornal Nacional on the following day, an edited-down highlight reel of the debate was aired. Critics argued that it highlighted Collor's best moments and Lula's worst ones, and that coverage was sympathetical to Collor, who was supposedly close to Globo's CEO Roberto Marinho. The event was explored on the British Channel 4 documentary Beyond Citizen Kane, which features an interview with then head of journalism at Globo, Armando Nogueira, where he says his edit of the debate was edited so as to favor Collor and claims that after complaining to Marinho about the edit, he was dismissed from the company.

Some attribute Collor's electoral victory to this particular event and other media coverage, such as a Jornal do Brasil article claiming Lula had fathered an illegitimate daughter. Later, Collor's campaign contacted Lula's ex-girlfriend, the mother of the child in question, and claimed that Lula had asked her to perform an abortion. This is said to be compounded by a prohibition on electoral advertising immediately preceding an election, which prevented Lula from responding to the accusations.

Candidates

Candidates in runoff

# Party/coalition Presidential candidate Political office(s) Vice-Presidential candidate
13
"Popular Brazil Front"
PT, PSB, PCdoB
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) Federal Deputy from São Paulo 1987–91; PT National President 1980–88
José Paulo Bisol (PSB)
20
"New Brazil Movement"
PRN, PSC, PST, PTR
Fernando Collor (PRN) Governor of Alagoas 1987–89; Federal Deputy from Alagoas 1983–87; Mayor of Maceió 1979–83
Itamar Franco (PRN)

Candidates failing to make runoff

# Party/coalition Presidential candidate Political office(s) Vice-Presidential candidate
11
Democratic Social Party (PDS)
Paulo Maluf (PDS) Federal Deputy from São Paulo 1983–87; Governor of São Paulo 1979–82; President of Trade Association of São Paulo 1976–79; State Secretary of Transports of São Paulo 1971–75; Mayor of São Paulo 1969–71; President of Federal Savings Bank 1967–69
Bonifácio Andrada (PDS)
12
Democratic Labour Party (PDT)
Leonel Brizola (PDT) Governor of Rio de Janeiro 1983–87; Federal Deputy from Guanabara 1963–64; Governor of Rio Grande do Sul 1959–63; Mayor of Porto Alegre 1956–58; Federal Deputy from Rio Grande do Sul 1955–56; State Deputy of Rio Grande do Sul 1947–55
Fernando Lyra (PDT)
14
Brazilian Labour Party (PTB)
Affonso Camargo Neto (PTB) Senator for Paraná 1979–95; Minister of Transports 1985–86; Vice Governor of Paraná 1964–65 Paiva Muniz (PTB)
15
Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB)
Ulysses Guimarães (PMDB) Federal Deputy from São Paulo 1951–92; President of the National Constituent Assembly 1987–88, President of the Chamber of Deputies 1956–58, 1985–89; Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade 1961–62; State Deputy of São Paulo 1947–51
Waldir Pires (PMDB)
16
Party of the Brazilian People (PPB)
Antônio dos Santos Pedreira (PPB) José Fortunaro da França (PPB)
22
"Christian Liberal Alliance"
PL, PDC
Afif Domingos (PL) Federal Deputy from São Paulo 1987–91
Aluísio Pimenta (PDC)
23
Brazilian Communist Party (PCB)
Roberto Freire (PCB) Federal Deputy from Pernambuco 1979–95; State Deputy of Pernambuco 1975–79 Sérgio Arouca (PCB)
25
Liberal Front Party (PFL)
Aureliano Chaves (PFL) Minister of Mines and Energy 1985–88; Vice President of Brazil 1979–85; Governor of Minas Gerais 1975–78; Federal Deputy from Minas Gerais 1967–75; State Deputy of Minas Gerais 1959–67
Cláudio Lembo (PFL)
26
Brazilian Municipalist Party (PMB)
Armando Corrêa (PMB) Agostinho Linhares (PMB)
27
Nacionalist Party (PN)
Lívia Maria Pio (PN) Ardwin Retto Grunewald (PN)
31
National Communitary Party (PCN)
Zamir Teixeira (PCN) William Pereira da Silva (PCN)
33
Party of National Mobilization (PMN)
Celso Brant (PMN) Federal Deputy from Minas Gerais 1959–63; Minister of Education 1956 José Emídio Neto (PMN)
41
"City-Field Union"
PSD, PDN
Ronaldo Caiado (PSD) Camilo Calazans (PDN)
42
Social Progressive Party (PSP)
José Alcides de Oliveira (PSP) Reinau Valim (PSP)
43
Green Party (PV)
Fernando Gabeira (PV) Maurício Lobo Abreu (PV)
45
Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB)
Mário Covas (PSDB) Senator for São Paulo 1987–95; Mayor of São Paulo 1983–86; Federal Deputy from São Paulo 1962–66, 1967–69, 1982–83 Almir Gabriel (PSDB)
54
People's Party (PP)
Paulo Gontijo (PP) Luís Paulino (PP)
55
Liberal Progressive Party (PLP)
Eudes Oliveira Mattar (PLP) Daniel Lazzeroni Jr. (PLP)
56
Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (PRONA)
Enéas Carneiro (PRONA) PRONA National President 1989–2006 Lenine Madeira (PRONA)
57
Party of the Christian Democracy of Brazil (PDCdoB)
Manoel Horta (PDCdoB) Jorge Coelho de Sá (PDCdoB)

Debates

First round

Date Host Moderator Afif Domingos (PL) Affonso Camargo (PTB) Aureliano Chaves (PFL) Fernando Collor (PRN) Leonel Brizola (PDT) Lula (PT) Mário Covas (PSDB) Paulo Maluf (PDS) Roberto Freire (PCB) Ronaldo Caiado (PSD) Ulysses Guimarães (PMDB)
17 July 1989 Rede Bandeirantes Marília Gabriela Present Present Present Absent Present Present Present Present Present Present Absent
14 August 1989 Rede Bandeirantes Marília Gabriela Present Invited to second debate Present Invited to second debate Present Invited to second debate Invited to second debate Present Present Invited to second debate Invited to second debate
15 August 1989 Invited to first debate Present Invited to first debate Absent Invited to first debate Present Present Invited to first debate Invited to first debate Present Present
16 October 1989 Rede Bandeirantes Marília Gabriela Present Not invited Absent Absent Present Present Present Present Present Present Absent
5 November 1989 Rede Bandeirantes Marília Gabriela Present Not invited Absent Absent Present Present Present Present Present Present Absent
12 November 1989 SBT Boris Casoy Present Not invited Absent Absent Present Present Present Present Present Present Absent

Second round

Date Host Moderator Fernando Collor (PRN) Lula (PT)
3 December 1989 Rede Manchete Alexandre Garcia
Boris Casoy
Eliakim Araújo
Marília Gabriela
Present Present
14 December 1989 Rede Bandeirantes Alexandre Garcia
Boris Casoy
Eliakim Araújo
Marília Gabriela
Present Present

Opinion polling

First round

Polling aggregates
Active candidates
  Fernando Collor (PRN)
  Lula (PT)
  Leonel Brizola (PDT)
  Mário Covas (PSDB)
  Paulo Maluf (PDS)
  Afif Domingos (PL)
  Ulysses Guimarães (PMDB)
  Others
  Abstentions/Undecided
Pollster/client(s) Date(s)
conducted
Sample
size
Collor
PRN
Lula
PT
Brizola
PDT
Covas
PSDB
Maluf
PDS
Afif
PL
Guimarães
PMDB
Others Abst.
Undec.
Lead
1989 election 15 Nov 30.47% 17.18% 16.51% 11.51% 8.85% 4.83% 4.73% 5.68% 6.44% 13.29%
Datafolha 15 Nov[lower-alpha 3] 10,645 30% 18% 14% 10% 8% 4% 4% 6% 12%
Datafolha 14 Nov 26% 15% 14% 11% 9% 5% 5% 4% 11% 11%
Datafolha 10 Nov 27% 15% 14% 11% 9% 5% 4% 5% 10% 12%
Datafolha 6–7 Nov 25% 15% 14% 9% 7% 4% 4% 13%[lower-alpha 4] 9% 10%
Datafolha 1–3 Nov 21% 14% 13% 9% 7% 4% 4% 17%[lower-alpha 5] 13% 7%
Datafolha 25–26 Oct 5,251 26% 14% 15% 9% 9% 5% 4% 5%[lower-alpha 6] 13% 11%
Datafolha 18–19 Oct 5,261 26% 14% 15% 8% 9% 7% 3% 5%[lower-alpha 7] 13% 11%
Datafolha 7–8 Oct 4,893 29% 10% 13% 7% 8% 8% 3% 4%[lower-alpha 7] 17% 16%
Datafolha 23–24 Sep 5,057 33% 7% 15% 6% 7% 7% 3% 5%[lower-alpha 7] 17% 18%
Datafolha 2–3 Sep 4,981 40% 6% 14% 5% 8% 5% 2% 4%[lower-alpha 7] 16% 26%
Datafolha 19–20 Aug 5,079 41% 5% 14% 5% 7% 3% 3% 4%[lower-alpha 7] 18% 27%
Datafolha 22–23 Jul 5,156 38% 6% 12% 6% 7% 2% 4% 4%[lower-alpha 7] 21% 26%
Datafolha 1–2 Jul 10,212 40% 7% 12% 6% 5% 2% 5% 5%[lower-alpha 8] 18% 28%
Datafolha 3–4 Jun 10,447 42% 7% 11% 5% 4% 1% 5% 4%[lower-alpha 8] 21% 31%
Datafolha 23–24 Apr 10,421 14% 12% 13% 6% 5% 1% 24%[lower-alpha 9] 21% 4%

Second round

Polling aggregates
Active candidates
  Fernando Collor (PRN)
  Lula (PT)
  Abstentions/Undecided
Pollster/client(s) Date(s)
conducted
Sample
size
Collor
PRN
Lula
PT
Abst.
Undec.
Lead
1989 election 17 Dec 53.03% 46.97% 5.42% 6.06%
Datafolha 17 Dec[lower-alpha 3] 11,995 51.5% 48.5% 3.0%
Datafolha 16 Dec 11,995 47% 44% 10% 3%
Datafolha 12–13 Dec 5,250 46% 45% 9% 1%
Datafolha 8 Dec 5,250 47% 44% 9% 3%
Datafolha 4 Dec 5,250 49% 41% 10% 9%
Datafolha 30 Nov 5,250 50% 40% 10% 10%
Datafolha 22 Nov 5,716 48% 39% 13% 9%

Results

Fernando Collor received the most votes in most states, except for the Federal District, where Lula came first, and Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, won by Leonel Brizola. In the second round, Lula won Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Rio de Janeiro, the Federal District, and his home state of Pernambuco, whilst Collor won the most votes in every other state.[21]

Candidate Party Running mate Party First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Fernando Collor PRN Itamar Franco PRN 20,607,936 30.47 35.085.457 53.03
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva PT José Paulo Bisol PSB 11,619,816 17.18 31,070,734 46.97
Leonel Brizola PDT Fernando Lyra PDT 11,166,016 16.51
Mário Covas PSDB Almir Gabriel PSDB 7,786,939 11.51
Paulo Maluf PDS Bonifácio de Andrada PDS 5,986,012 8.85
Afif Domingos PL Aluísio Pimenta PDC 3,271,986 4.83
Ulysses Guimarães PMDB Waldir Pires PMDB 3,204,853 4.73
Roberto Freire PCB Sérgio Arouca PCB 768,803 1.13
Aureliano Chaves PFL Cláudio Lembo PFL 600,730 0.88
Ronaldo Caiado PSD Camilo Calazans PDN 488,872 0.72
Affonso Camargo Neto PTB Paiva Muniz PTB 379,262 0.56
Enéas Carneiro PRONA Lenine Madeira PRONA 360,561 0.53
José Alcides de Oliveira PSP Reinau Valim PSP 238,425 0.33
Paulo Gontijo PP Luís Paulino PP 198,719 0.29
Zamir Teixeira PCN William Pereira da Silva PCN 187,155 0.27
Lívia Maria Pio PN Ardwin Retto Grunewald PN 179,922 0.26
Eudes Oliveira Mattar PLP Daniel Lazzeroni Jr. PLP 162,350 0.24
Fernando Gabeira PV Maurício Lobo Abreu PV 125,842 0.18
Celso Brant PMN José Emídio Neto PMN 109,909 0.16
Antônio dos Santos Pedreira PPB José Fortunato da França PPB 86,144 0.12
Manoel Horta PDCdoB Jorge Coelho de Sá PDCdoB 83,286 0.12
Armando Corrêa PMB Agostinho Linhares de Souza PMB 4,363 0.01
Sílvio Santos PMB Marcondes Gadêlha PMB 0 0.00 Rejected candidacy
Invalid/blank votes 4,649,897 4,094,339
Total 72,277,408 100 70,250,194 100
Registered voters/turnout 82,056,226 88.07 82,056,226 85.61
Popular vote (first round)
Collor
30.47%
Lula
17.18%
Brizola
16.51%
Covas
11.51%
Maluf
8.85%
Afif
4.83%
Guimarães
4.73%
Others
6.44%
Popular vote (second round)
Collor
53.03%
Lula
46.97%

Notes

  1. Born in Rio de Janeiro, electoral based in Alagoas
  2. Born in Pernambuco, electoral based in São Paulo
  3. Exit poll conducted on election day.
  4. Sílvio Santos (PMB) with 10%
  5. Sílvio Santos (PMB) with 14%
  6. Aureliano Chaves (PFL) with 1%
  7. Aureliano Chaves (PFL) with 1%
  8. Aureliano Chaves (PFL) with 2%
  9. Orestes Quércia (PMDB) with 18%; Jânio Quadros with 4%

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