Vice President of Brazil

The vice president of Brazil (Template:Langx), officially the vice president of the Federative Republic of Brazil (Vice-Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil), or simply the vice president of the republic (Vice-Presidente da República) is the second-highest ranking government official in the executive branch of the Government of Brazil, preceded only by the president. The vice president's primary role is to replace the president in the event of their death, resignation, or impeachment conviction, and to temporarily take over the presidential powers and duties while the president is abroad, or otherwise temporarily unable to carry out their duties. The vice president is elected jointly with the president as their running mate.

The office has existed since the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889, although it was only officially instituted as of the 1891 Constitution. It has been in place throughout all of Brazil's republican history, save for the fifteen years of the Vargas Era when it was officially abolished.

Requirements

The requirements to run for the office of vice president are exactly those of the presidency itself. In addition to the ordinary requirements to run for political office 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 certain circumstances may include the offspring of one or two Brazilian parents living abroad) and be at least 35 years of age.

Election and tenure

The president and the vice president are elected on a single ticket for a four-year term and are inaugurated on January 1 of the year following that of the election. Both may be re-elected for a subsequent term.

Vice presidents succeeding a sitting president may be reelected for an additional term. However, the vice president is not eligible to run for a second full term, as under Brazilian law any partial term counts toward the limit of two consecutive terms. Due to the wording of the constitution's provisions on term limits, whenever the vice president serves as acting president when the president is either abroad or suspended from office as a result of impeachment, it counts as a partial term.

Workplace and official residence

The vice president works in an annex building of the Palácio do Planalto. The official residence of the vice president is the Palácio do Jaburu, inaugurated in 1977.

Ascension to the presidency

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 convictionTemplate:Efn (Itamar Franco and Michel Temer).

List of vice presidents

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term	Party		Election	President
1	File:Floriano Peixoto presidente do Senado.jpg	Floriano Peixoto (1839–1895)	February 26, 1891 – November 23, 1891Template:Efn	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	Unaffiliated	1891	Deodoro da Fonseca
colspan=7 Template:CNone	Floriano Peixoto
2	File:Manoel Victorino Pereira como presidente do Senado.jpg	Manuel VitorinoTemplate:Efn (1853–1902)	November 15, 1894 – November 15, 1898	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PRF (Federal)	1894	Prudente de Morais
3	File:Senador Rosa e Silva.jpg	Rosa e Silva (1857–1929)	November 15, 1898 – November 15, 1902	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	Unaffiliated	1898	Campos Sales
colspan=7 Template:CNone	Rodrigues Alves
4		File:Afonso Pena presidente do Senado.jpg	Afonso PenaTemplate:Efn (1847–1909)	June 17, 1903 – November 15, 1906	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PRM	1903
5	File:Nilo Peçanha presidente do Senado.jpg	Nilo Peçanha (1867–1924)	November 15, 1906 – June 14, 1909Template:Efn	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PRF (Fluminense)	1906	Afonso Pena
colspan=7 Template:CNone	Nilo Peçanha
6	File:Venceslau Brás presidente do Senado.jpg	Venceslau Brás (1868–1966)	November 15, 1910 – November 15, 1914	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PRM	1910	Hermes da Fonseca
7	File:Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo como presidente do Senado.jpg	Urbano Santos (1859–1922)	November 15, 1914 – November 15, 1918	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PRM	1914	Venceslau Brás
8	File:Delfim Moreira presidente do Senado.jpg	Delfim MoreiraTemplate:Efn (1868–1920)	November 15, 1918 – January 16, 1919	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PRM	1918	Rodrigues Alves
colspan=7 Template:CNone	Delfim Moreira
8	File:Delfim Moreira presidente do Senado.jpg	Delfim Moreira (1868–1920)	July 28, 1919 – July 1, 1920Template:Efn	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PRM	1918	Epitácio Pessoa
colspan=7 Template:CNone
9	File:Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva como presidente do Senado.jpg	Bueno de PaivaTemplate:Efn (1861–1928)	November 10, 1920 – November 15, 1922	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PRM	1920
10	File:Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra como presidente do Senado.jpg	Estácio CoimbraTemplate:Efn (1872–1937)	November 15, 1922 – November 15, 1926	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	UnaffiliatedTemplate:Efn	—	Artur Bernardes
11	File:Fernando de Mello Vianna como Presidente do Senado.jpg	Melo Viana (1878–1954)	November 15, 1926 – October 24, 1930Template:Efn	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PRM	1926	Washington Luís
colspan=7 rowspan=4 Template:CNoneTemplate:Efn	Military junta of 1930
Getúlio Vargas
José Linhares
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
	12	File:Nereu de Oliveira Ramos, presidente do Senado.jpg	Nereu Ramos (1888–1958)	September 19, 1946 – January 31, 1951	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PSD	1946
13	File:João Fernandes Campos Café Filho, presidente do Senado.jpg	Café Filho (1899–1970)	January 31, 1951 – August 24, 1954Template:Efn	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PSP	1950	Getúlio Vargas
colspan=7 rowspan=3 Template:CNone	Café Filho
Carlos Luz
Nereu Ramos
14	File:João Belchior Marques Goulart, presidente do Senado.jpg	João Goulart (1919–1976)	January 31, 1956 – August 25, 1961Template:Efn	rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PTB	1955 1960	Juscelino Kubitschek
				Jânio Quadros
colspan=7 rowspan=3 Template:CNone	Ranieri Mazzilli
João Goulart
Ranieri Mazzilli
15	File:José Maria Alkmin, Ministro da Fazenda..tif	José Maria Alkmin (1901–1974)	April 15, 1964 – March 15, 1967	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PSDTemplate:Efn	1964	Castelo Branco
				style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	ARENA
16	File:Pedro Aleixo.jpg	Pedro Aleixo (1901–1975)	March 15, 1967 – August 31, 1969Template:Efn	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	ARENA	1966	Costa e Silva
colspan=7 Template:CNone	Military junta of 1969
17	File:Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald (1968).jpg	Augusto Rademaker (1905–1985)	October 30, 1969 – March 15, 1974	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	ARENA	1969	Emílio Médici
18	File:Adalberto Pereira dos Santos, vice-presidente..tif	Adalberto Pereira dos Santos (1905–1984)	March 15, 1974 – March 15, 1979	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	ARENA	1974	Ernesto Geisel
19	File:Aureliano Chaves (1982).jpg	Aureliano Chaves (1929–2003)	March 15, 1979 – March 15, 1985	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	ARENATemplate:Efn	1978	João Figueiredo
				style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PDS
				style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PFLTemplate:Efn
20	File:José Sarney como Presidente do Senado.jpg	José SarneyTemplate:Efn (b. 1930)	March 15, 1985 – April 21, 1985Template:Efn	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PMDB	1985	Tancredo Neves (president-elect)
colspan=7 Template:CNone	José Sarney
21	File:Itamar Franco (cropped).jpg	Itamar Franco (1930–2011)	March 15, 1990 – December 29, 1992Template:Efn	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PRNTemplate:Efn	1990	Fernando Collor
				style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PMDB
colspan=7 Template:CNone	Itamar Franco
22	File:Marco Maciel Senador assina constituição (cropped).jpg	Marco Maciel (1940–2021)	January 1, 1995 – January 1, 2003	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PFL	1994 1998	Fernando Henrique Cardoso
23	File:Jose alencar 23 out 2007.jpg	José Alencar (1931–2011)	January 1, 2003 – January 1, 2011	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PLTemplate:Efn	2002 2006	Lula da Silva
				style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PRB
24	File:Vice-Presidente Michel Temer (recorte 2).jpg	Michel Temer (b. 1940)	January 1, 2011 – August 31, 2016Template:Efn	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PMDB	2010 2014	Dilma Rousseff
colspan=7 Template:CNone	Michel Temer
25	File:Hamilton Mourão, vice-presidente do Brasil (cropped).jpg	Hamilton Mourão (b. 1953)	January 1, 2019 – January 1, 2023	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PRTBTemplate:Efn	2018	Jair Bolsonaro
				style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	Republicans
26	File:Geraldo Alckmin em abril de 2018 (II).jpg	Geraldo Alckmin (b. 1952)	January 1, 2023 – Incumbent	style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |	PSB	2022	Lula da Silva

See also

• List of current vice presidents
• President of Brazil
• List of presidents of Brazil

External links

• Vice-Presidency of Brazil Official Website
• Official vice presidential portrait