(Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)
The President of the Chamber of Deputies (currently Rodrigo Maia, from DEM-RJ).
He is third in the country’s presidential line of succession, according to the Federal Constitution. If he also kicks the bucket, the responsibility will go to the president of the Federal Senate and, later, to the president of the Federal Supreme Court. But these three only assume provisionally, until a new election is called.
The deadline for organizing this election is 90 days, but if it is in the last two years of the mandate, it drops to 30 days.
In one way or another, the president and vice-president chosen in the extraordinary election will govern only until they complete the terms of their predecessors.
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