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The 1982 Elections in Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Candido Mendes
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THE RESULTS OF THE BRAZILIAN ELECTIONS OF 15 NOVEMBER 1982 made irreversible the trend towards abertura in the country with the longest experience of technocratic development in the Third world.

Regarded as an almost impossible achievement by political analysts, these elections became a model of a genuine ‘decompression from the top’. The system neither lost its grip during the process nor did it back down from its purpose of an almost full return to direct elections for the executive in the Brazilian Federation, making ample use of the president's involvement in the contest.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1984 , pp. 152 - 156
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1984

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1 The parties in the 1982 elections were: Partido Democratico Social (PDS); Partido do Movimento Democratico Brasileiro (PMDB); Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (PTB); Partido Democratico Trabalhista (PDT); and Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).