who is the president of brazil now?
Dilma Rousseff
contradiction
 As President Lula wrote for The Economist regarding Brazil 's global agenda : 

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 = = = Re @-@ election and Spiritual Leader of the Nation = = = 

entailment
 Following the hasty departure of Pedro I , Brazil was left with a five @-@ year @-@ old boy as head of state . With no precedent to follow , the Empire was faced with the prospect of a period of more than twelve years without a strong executive , as , under the constitution , Pedro II would not attain his majority and begin exercising authority as Emperor until 2 December 1843 . A regency was elected to rule the country in the interim . Because the Regency held few of the powers exercised by an emperor and was completely subordinated to the General Assembly , it could not fill the vacuum at the apex of Brazil 's government . 

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 There is no restriction on the number of times a qualified person can be elected President . 

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 The nation enjoyed considerable international prestige during the final years of the Empire and had become an emerging power in the international arena . While Pedro II was receiving medical treatment in Europe , the parliament passed , and Princess Isabel signed on 13 May 1888 , the Golden Law , which completely abolished slavery in Brazil . Predictions of economic and labor disruption caused by the abolition of slavery proved to be unfounded . Nonetheless , the end of slavery was the final blow to any remaining belief in the crown 's neutrality , and this resulted in an explicit shift of support to Republicanism by the ultraconservatives — themselves backed by rich and powerful coffee farmers who held great political , economic and social power in the country . 
