2015 in Brazil
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Federal government
Governors
- Acre: Tião Viana
- Alagoas:
- Teotônio Vilela Filho (until 1 January)
- Renan Filho (starting 1 January)
- Amapa:
- Camilo Capiberibe (until 1 January)
- Waldez Góes (starting 1 January)
- Amazonas: José Melo
- Bahia:
- Jacques Wagner (until 1 January)
- Rui Costa (starting 1 January)
- Ceará:
- Cid Gomes (until 1 January)
- Camilo Santana (starting 1 January)
- Espírito Santo:
- Renato Casagrande (until 1 January)
- Paulo Hartung (starting 1 January)
- Goiás: Marconi Perillo
- Maranhão:
- Arnaldo Melo (until 1 January)
- Flávio Dino (starting 1 January)
- Mato Grosso: Pedro Taques
- Mato Grosso do Sul:
- André Puccinelli (until 1 January)
- Reinaldo Azambuja (starting 1 January)
- Minas Gerais: Fernando Damata Pimentel (starting 1 January)
- Pará: Simão Jatene
- Paraíba: Ricardo Coutinho
- Paraná: Beto Richa
- Pernambuco:
- João Lyra Neto (until 1 January)
- Paulo Câmara (starting 1 January)
- Piauí:
- Zé Filho (until 1 January)
- Wellington Dias (starting 1 January)
- Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Fernando Pezão (starting 1 January)
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- Rosalba Ciarlini Rosado (until 1 January)
- Robinson Faria (starting 1 January)
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- Tarso Genro (until 1 January)
- José Ivo Sartori (starting 1 January)
- Rondônia: Confúcio Moura
- Roraima: Suely Campos
- Santa Catarina: Raimundo Colombo
- São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
- Sergipe: Jackson Barreto
- Tocantins:
- Sandoval Cardoso (until 1 January)
- Marcelo Miranda (starting 1 January)
Vice governors
- Acre:
- Carlos César Correia de Messias (until 1 January)
- Maria Nazareth Melo de Araújo Lambert (starting 1 January)
- Alagoas:
- José Thomaz da Silva Nonô Neto (until 1 January)
- José Luciano Barbosa da Silva (starting 1 January)
- Amapá:
- Doralice Nascimento de Souza (until 1 January)
- João Bosco Papaléo Paes (starting 1 January)
- Amazonas:
- José Melo de Oliveira (until 1 January)
- José Henrique Oliveira (starting 1 January)
- Bahia:
- Otto Alencar (until 1 January)
- João Leão (starting 1 January)
- Ceará:
- Domingos Gomes de Aguiar Filho (until 1 January)
- Maria Izolda Cela de Arruda Coelho (starting 1 January)
- Espírito Santo:
- Givaldo Vieira da Silva (until 1 January)
- César Roberto Colnago (starting 1 January)
- Goiás: José Eliton de Figueiredo Júnior
- Maranhão:
- Joaquim Washington Luiz de Oliveira (until 1 January)
- Carlos Orleans Brandão Júnior (starting 1 January)
- Mato Grosso:
- Francisco Tarquínio Daltro (until 1 January)
- Carlos Henrique Baqueta Fávaro (starting 1 January)
- Mato Grosso do Sul:
- Simone Tebet (until 1 January)
- Rose Modesto (starting 1 January)
- Minas Gerais:
- Alberto Pinto Coelho Júnior (until 1 January)
- Antônio Eustáquio Andrade Ferreira (starting 1 January)
- Pará:
- Helenilson Cunha Pontes (until 1 January)
- José da Cruz Marinho (starting 1 January)
- Paraíba:
- Rômulo José de Gouveia (until 1 January)
- Lígia Feliciano (starting 1 January)
- Paraná:
- Flávio José Arns (until 1 January)
- Maria Aparecida Borghetti (starting 1 January)
- Pernambuco:
- João Soares Lyra Neto (until 1 January)
- Raul Jean Louis Henry Júnior (starting 1 January)
- Piaui:
- Antônio José de Moraes Souza Filho (until 1 January)
- Margarete de Castro Coelho (starting 1 January)
- Rio de Janeiro: Francisco Dornelles (starting January 1)
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- Robinson Faria (until 1 January)
- Fábio Dantas (starting 1 January)
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- Jorge Alberto Duarte Grill (until 1 January)
- José Paulo Dornelles Cairoli (starting 1 January)
- Rondônia:
- Airton Pedro Gurgacz (until 1 January)
- Daniel Pereira (starting 1 January)
- Roraima:
- Francisco de Assis Rodrigues (until 1 January)
- Paulo César Justo Quartiero (starting 1 January)
- Santa Catarina: Eduardo Pinho Moreira
- São Paulo:
- Guilherme Afif Domingos (until 1 January)
- Márcio França (starting 1 January)
- Sergipe:
- Jackson Barreto de Lima (until 1 January)
- Belivaldo Chagas Silva (starting 1 January)
- Tocantins: Cláudia Telles de Menezes Pires Martins Lelis (starting 1 January)
Events
January
- January 1: Dilma Rousseff is inaugurated for a second term as Brazilian President.[1]
- January 6: Two commuter trains collide at Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro, injuring 158 people.[2]
February
- February 4: The president of Petrobras, Maria das Graças Foster, as well as five other directors of the oil company resign; amidst allegations of corruption.[3]
- February 21: Six months since the beginning of Operation Castanheira, Ezequiel Antônio Castanha, who is considered to be the biggest Amazon deforester of all time, is arrested. This was a joint operation by the Federal Police, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment, the Federal Public Ministry, the Federal Revenue Service, and the National Public Security Force.[4][5]
- February 24: The judge in the insider trading trial of Eike Batista is videotaped driving one of his seized vehicles.[6]
March
- March 4: The Supreme Federal Court extinguishes the sentence of former Workers' Party president José Genoino, after being convicted in the monthly allowance process.[7]
- March 15
- Hundreds of thousands of people in Brazil protest against corruption and denounce the government of President Dilma Rousseff.[8]
July
- July 7: Two million people attend the 19th São Paulo Gay Pride Parade on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo.[9]
August
- August 6: Radio journalist Gleydson Carvalho was assassinated on air while he was hosting a live broadcast at the Radio Liberdade FM in the state of Ceará.[10]
- August 16: In more than 200 cities, in all 26 states in the country, people protest against the Workers' Party government, calling for the removal of President Dilma Rousseff through impeachment or resignation.[11]
September
- September 17: The Supreme Court of Brazil ruled that campaign donations from businesses should be illegal.[12]
November
- November 5: An iron ore tailings dam in Bento Rodrigues, a subdistrict of Mariana, Minas Gerais, suffers a catastrophic failure, causing flooding, killing 19 and injuring over 16.[13] This would become the biggest environmental disaster in the country's history after the mud had reached the course of the Doce River and later in the following weeks, the Atlantic Ocean.[14]
December
- December 2: The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies accepts the impeachment request of President Dilma Rousseff.[15]
