José Sarney

José Sarney on November 4, 2003

José Sarney Costa (born April 24, 1930 in Pinheiro , Maranhão ) is a Brazilian writer and politician . He was President of the Federative Republic of Brazil from April 22, 1985 to March 15, 1990 .

José Sarney began his political career in the União Democrática Nacional (UDN), for which he was elected governor of Maranhão in 1965 . In the same year he joined the official ruling party of the military dictatorship Aliança Renovadora Nacional (ARENA), for which he sat in the Senate from 1971 and of which he was the last president. After the dissolution of the parties in 1979, Sarney became president of the newly founded ruling party Partido Democrático Social (PDS). In the controversy over the nomination of the party's presidential candidate in 1984, Sarney left the PDS, joined the PMDB and ran for the office of vice president.

José Sarney became president after Tancredo Neves , who was actually elected to the office and whose deputy was Sarney, fell seriously ill and finally died on April 21, 1985 before he could take office. The three most serious problems Brazil faced during his reign were urban impoverishment, high inflation and enormous national debt.

After serving as president, Sarney stayed in politics. Since 1990 he has been a senator for the state of Amapá and he was again President of the Bundessenat in 1995/96, 2003-2005 and from February 2009 until the 2010 elections. On February 1, 2011, he was fourth with 70 votes He was elected President of the Senate for the first time and was replaced by Renan Calheiros on February 1, 2013 .

His son José Sarney Filho was Environment Minister in Fernando Henrique Cardoso's cabinet from 1999 to 2002 . His daughter Roseana Sarney was governor of Maranhão state from 1994 to 2002 and has been again since 2009. She was confirmed in office in the 2010 elections.

New scandals and cases of corruption are constantly being discovered in which he and his family are believed to be involved.

In addition to his work as a politician, Sarney is also known as a writer of literary works. His better-known books include a. A Canção Inicial (1952), A Pesca do Curral (1953), Norte das Águas (1970), Marimbondos de Fogo (1979), 10 contos escolhidos ( short stories, 1985) and O Dono do Mar (1996). Translated into German, Sarney published, among other things, a volume of short stories entitled The Sons of Old Antão (1987). In 1980 he was accepted into the Academia Brasileira de Letras .

Web links

Commons : José Sarney  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about José Sarney in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Míriam Leitão, Alvaro Gribel: Dos males, o maior ( Memento of August 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ); O Globo, accessed August 2, 2009.
2. ^ Paulo Cesar Vieira de Aguiar: Do 'Fora Collor' ao 'Fica Sarney' ; O Globo, July 28, 2009.
3. ↑ Lusa: Brazil: Sarney anula 663 decisões secretas do Senado que estavam a ser questionadas ; Expresso, accessed July 14, 2009.

predecessor	Office	successor
Tancredo Neves	President of Brazil 1985–1990	Fernando Collor de Mello