Emenda Dante de Oliveira

Portuguese

Etymology

Literally, “Dante de Oliveira Amendment”, named after Brazilian congressman Dante de Oliveira.

Proper noun

Emenda Dante de Oliveira

1. (Brazil, historical) a law amendment which was rejected at a voting in 2 March 1983, which proposed allowing direct elections for the office of president of Brazil as per the Diretas Já movement

Further reading

• Diretas Já on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Proposta de Emenda Constitucional Dante de Oliveira on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt