The 1955 Brazilian presidential election was pretty close: Juscelino Kubitschek, one of Getúlio Vargas' many political heirs and candidate of PSD and PTB, defeated UDN's Juarez Távora by a margin of just 5%, or roughly 400.000 out of 9 million votes. Távora's campaign was hampered by two main issues: first, it took a relatively long time for him to throw his hat into the ring, since he initially gave up on running for the top spot before finally deciding otherwise. Secondly, Plínio Salgado (of Integralist fame) was a presidential candidate too, and he received several hundred thousand votes that would otherwise have gone to Távora (8% in total, bigger than the gap separating Távora and Kubitschek's numbers).
So what if Távora was committed to running for the presidency from the get go and Salgado stayed out of the race for whatever reason, ensuring that an UDN candidate enters the halls of Catete Palace for the first time since the party's creation in 1945? How different would Távora's administration be from Kubitschek's? I assume Brasília's construction will at least be delayed ITTL, can it be put off for good? What will the economy look like by 1960, and, lastly, would Távora have a majority in Congress?
@Gukpard @Guilherme Loureiro @ByzantineCaesar @Paraiba @John I of Brazil @Kaiser of Brazil
So what if Távora was committed to running for the presidency from the get go and Salgado stayed out of the race for whatever reason, ensuring that an UDN candidate enters the halls of Catete Palace for the first time since the party's creation in 1945? How different would Távora's administration be from Kubitschek's? I assume Brasília's construction will at least be delayed ITTL, can it be put off for good? What will the economy look like by 1960, and, lastly, would Távora have a majority in Congress?
@Gukpard @Guilherme Loureiro @ByzantineCaesar @Paraiba @John I of Brazil @Kaiser of Brazil