Cabinet of Tancredo Neves

The Cabinet of Tancredo Neves was a ministry cabinet formed by the coalition of the Social Democratic Party, Brazilian Labour Party, Social Progressive Party, Christian Democratic Party and some members of the National Democratic Union, established on 8 September 1961 and dissolved on 12 July 1962. It was headed by Tancredo Neves as the first Prime Minister of the United States of Brazil, inaugurating the Brazilian parliamentary republic period.^[1][2]

The Council of Ministers worked based in rules established by Presidential Decree no. 65, of 19 October 1961, which approved the Council of Ministers Internal Statute, disciplining its meetings, documents, publishings and decisions.^[3]

The cabinet presented the following government program:^[4]

• Establish a national union government;
• Fight inflation;
• Fight high life cost;
• Pass a tax reform;
• Rationalize exchange rate policy;
• Reduce government expenses;
• Incrase federal revenue;
• Encourage savings and investments;
• Pass a new Antitrust Law;
• Encourage the development;
• Distribute national revenue;
• Make an agrarian reform.

The cabinet approved, among others, the following legislation:

• Law no. 4024 of 20 December 1961, the first Law of Guidance and Bases of National Education;
• Law no. 4214 of 2 March 1962, establishing the Rural Statute, unionizing the class and extending national legislation to the countryside;
• Law no. 4070 of 15 June 1962, which granted statehood status of the Territory of Acre;
• Law no. 4090 of 13 July 1962, which established the thirteenth salary in Brazil;
• Law no. 4137 of 10 September 1962, which disciplines the repression against abuse of economic power.