“Sir, everyone in the world is your fan, but I am your biggest fan.”
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Fernando Collor de Mello
Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello is a Brazilian politician who served as the 32nd president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned in a failed attempt to stop his impeachment trial by the Brazilian Senate. Collor was the first president democratically elected after the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship. He became the youngest president in Brazilian history, taking office at the age…
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culture · President of Brazil from 1990 to 1992 · politician · writer · also Fernando Collor de Mello, Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello, Mello
Born 12 August 1949 · Q236503
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2026· 3 entries
“And I want a little girl just like you!”
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“Son you have an oblique sense of humor.... Comedian Steve Martin, at the Dave Letterman Show. Years later he wrote a play where Presley, along with Einstein and Picasso, are the main characters, called”
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2025· 1 entry
Click2Houston: FERNANDO COLLOR DE MELLO
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2023· 1 entry
The Brazilian Supreme Federal Court voted to convict Collor on charges of money laundering and corruption
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2022· 2 entries
Collor ran for Governor of Alagoas, placing 3rd and not making the run-off
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Collor left the Republican Party of the Social Order and rejoined the Brazilian Labour Party (current)
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2019· 1 entry
Collor left PTC and joined the Republican Party of the Social Order
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2016· 1 entry
Collor abandoned PTB and joined the Christian Labour Party (PTC), a small Christian democratic party which had no representatives in the Congress at the time
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2015· 1 entry
Career landmark: Alagoas senator (2015–2023).
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2014· 1 entry
Collor was re-elected to the Senate with 55% of the vote
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2013· 1 entry
“Cosas que siempre quise contar”
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2007· 2 entries
Career landmark: Alagoas senator (2007–2015).
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“, referring to Presley's early SUN Records label recordings and their influence on the Liverpool rock and roll scene”
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2006· 2 entries
Married Caroline Medeiros, with whom he would have two children
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Collor was elected to the Federal Senate representing his state of Alagoas, with 44
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2005· 1 entry
“Whether one is an Elvis fan or not there is no doubting that no church in Grimsby or any other town, possibly, has ever seen anything like it before, the most moving and joyful service I have ever officiated at. Some people used to think rock and roll was the devil's music but Elvis was a devout Christian.”
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2002· 1 entry
With political rights restored, he ran for Governor of Alagoas, but lost to incumbent Governor Ronaldo Lessa, who was seeking reelection
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2000· 2 entries
Collor joined the Brazilian Labour Renewal Party (PRTB) and ran for mayor of São Paulo
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After the expiration of the eight-year disqualification imposed by the Brazilian Senate
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1997· 1 entry
“Após ser questionado por Sônia Bridi, em março de 1997, sobre a possibilidade de concorrer para presidente em 1998”
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1994· 1 entry
The Supreme Court tried the ordinary criminal charges stemming from the Farias corruption affair; the ordinary criminal accusation was presented by the Brazilian federal prosecution service (Ministério Público Federal)
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1993· 1 entry
Collor challenged before the Brazilian Supreme Court the Senate's decision to continue the trial after his resignation but the Supreme Court ruled the Senate's action valid
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1991· 3 entries
Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1991).
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UNICEF chose three health programs: community agents, lay midwives and eradication of measles as the best in the world
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The founding document of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)
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1990· 2 entries
(Collor's first year in government) to 400 percent in 1991, but then climbed back up to 1,020 percent in 1992 (when he left office)
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Career landmark: President of Brazil (1990–1992).
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1989· 4 entries
“Fernando Collor de Mello, ex-presidente da República e candidato a prefeito de São Paulo, mostrando que está preparado para administrar a capital alvinegra”
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“Não tenho nenhuma outra expectativa a não ser terminar meu mandato, poder andar pelas ruas deste país afora, e que as pessoas digam: 'Lá vai o Collor, ele fez um bom governo'.”
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Collor defeated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a controversial two-round presidential race with 35 million votes
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“Fernando Collor já foi prefeito de Maceió, governador de Alagoas, presidente da República e é, sem dúvida, um pouco exótico vê-lo discutindo problemas de São Paulo", disse Vaia antes de ser interrompido por Collor”
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1983· 1 entry
Career landmark: federal deputy of Alagoas (1983–1987).
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1979· 2 entries
Career landmark: mayor of Maceió (1979–1982).
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(National Renewal Alliance Party), elected a federal deputy (Democratic Social Party) in 1982, and eventually elected governor of the small Northeastern state of Alagoas (Brazilian Democratic Movement Party) in 1986
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1975· 1 entry
Married his first wife Celi Elisabete Júlia Monteiro de Carvalho, with whom he had two children
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1974· 1 entry
“The Great American Popular Singers”
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1957· 1 entry
“Santa Claus Is Back in Town.”
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1949· 1 entry
Born 1949-08-12.
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