Fernando Collor de Mello

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His Excellency Fernando Collor de Mello GCTE
Official portrait, 1992
32nd President of Brazil
In office 15 March 1990 – 29 December 1992 Suspended: 2 October 1992 – 29 December 1992
Vice President	Itamar Franco
Preceded by	José Sarney
Succeeded by	Itamar Franco
Further offices held Senator for Alagoas In office 1 February 2007 – 1 February 2023 Preceded by Heloísa Helena Succeeded by Renan Filho Governor of Alagoas In office 15 March 1987 – 14 May 1989 Vice Governor Moacir de Andrade Preceded by José Tavares Succeeded by Moacir de Andrade Member of the Chamber of Deputies In office 1 February 1983 – 15 July 1986 Constituency Alagoas Mayor of Maceió In office 1 January 1979 – 31 December 1982 Preceded by Dílton Simões Succeeded by Corinto Campelo
Personal details
Born	(1949-08-12) 12 August 1949 (age 75) Rio de Janeiro, Federal District, Brazil
Political party	PRD (2023–present)
Other political affiliations	See list ARENA (1979) PDS (1980–1985) PMDB (1986–1988) PRN (1989–1992) PRTB (1999–2006) PTB (2007–2016) PTC (2016–2019) PROS (2019–2022) PTB (2022–2023)
Spouses	Celi Elisabete Júlia Monteiro de Carvalho ​ ​ (m. 1975; div. 1981)​ Rosane Brandão Malta ​ ​ (m. 1981; div. 2005)​ Caroline Serejo Medeiros ​ ​ (m. 2006)​
Children	5
Parent(s)	Arnon de Melo Leda Collor
Residence(s)	Maceió, Alagoas
Alma mater	University of Brasília[1]
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Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (Brazilian Portuguese: [feʁˈnɐ̃dwaˈfõsu ˈkɔloʁ dʒi ˈmɛlu]; born 12 August 1949) is a Brazilian politician who served as the 32nd president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned in a failed attempt to stop his impeachment trial by the Brazilian Senate. Collor was the first president democratically elected after the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship. He became the youngest president in Brazilian history, taking office at the age of 40. After he resigned from the presidency, the impeachment trial on charges of corruption continued. Collor was found guilty by the Senate and disqualified from holding elected office for eight years (1992–2000). He was later acquitted of ordinary criminal charges in his judicial trial before Brazil's Supreme Federal Court, for lack of valid evidence.

Fernando Collor was born into a political family. He is the son of the former Senator Arnon Affonso de Farias Mello and Leda Collor (daughter of former Labour Minister Lindolfo Collor, led by his father, former governor of Alagoas and proprietor of the Arnon de Mello Organization, a media conglomerate which manages the state-wide television station TV Gazeta de Alagoas, the affiliate of TV Globo in the state.) "Collor" is a Portuguese adaptation of the German surname Köhler, from his maternal grandfather Lindolfo Leopoldo Boeckel Collor.

Collor served as Senator for Alagoas from February 2007 to February 2023. He first won election in 2006 and was reelected in 2014. In August 2017, Collor was accused by Brazil's Supreme Federal Court of receiving around US$9 million in bribes between 2010 and 2014 from Petrobras subsidiary BR Distributor.