The photo gallery of former presidents of the Republic that is exposed in the main hall of the Planalto Palace displays historical errors and controversies about names and birth dates of some former bosses of the Brazilian state.
One of these cases appears in information about, whose date of birth appears in the gallery as April 19, 1883. However, the Presidential Reference Center, a National Archive page that brings together identification data from all former leaders, points out 1882.
The dates are inscribed below the photographs of the presidents of Brazilian history – all black and white, except for the image of the acting president, who is colorful.
In the case of former President Fernando Collor de Mello, the mistake is in the spelling of his middle name, Affonso. In the Gallery on Planalto, he appears with only one “F”. On the National Archive and Senate websites (where it remained as a parliamentarian until 2023), it is spelled with two.
Collor suffered as president (1990-1992) after charges of corruption. In 2023, he was again investigated and (Supreme Court) to eight years and ten months in prison for passive corruption and money laundering, in case linked to Operation Lava Jato.
Another president with inaccurate data is João Goulart, deposed by the 1964 military coup. His year of birth is 1918.
The gallery, with this, reproduces a historical controversy of Jango’s life. According to the João Goulart Institute, created in memory of the former president, Jango was born in 1919, but had a second birth certificate issued at the behest of his father, adding a year to his age so that he could join the Faculty of Law of Porto Alegre.
Thus, in various sources it is possible to find 1918 as the president’s official year of birth.
The report used as an official reference, for comparison purposes, the data of the former presidents contained on the National Archive website, in addition to the Planalto pages and other federal agencies.
SECOM (Presidential Communication Secretariat) stated that the errors indicated by the Sheet occurred by typing problem and will be corrected.
The gallery with photos and the dates of birth and death of the former presidents was vandalized in the attacks of January 8, 2023, when the headquarters of the three powers were invaded and depredated by supporters of the former president (). The photographic records of the former presidents were torn from the wall, torn and thrown on the floor.
In 2024, the wing was restored. One day after the two-year anniversary of the attacks, she was, who mentioned the desire for the “story to be told” in the gallery and that information was added such as former President Michel Temer (MDB) assumed after the impeachment of ().
On the visit, next to Lula, the first lady, Rosângela da Silva, the Janja, said that each photo in the gallery would be accompanied by a QR Code, to access information about the historical personality portrayed. Planalto said he had no information about QR Code.
“Dilma was elected, was reelected and then suffered an impeachment for a blow. Then this one here [Temer] was not elected, took office due to the impeachment of Dilma and then this one here [Bolsonaro] It was elected due to the lies. This is what you have to put, “he said at the time.
Dilma’s painting also has an error: your surname is Vana Rousseff. In the gallery, the middle name appears spelled with two letters “n”.
Of the heads of state of the dictatorship period, there is an error in the year of birth of Costa e Silva: the general was born in 1899, according to the National Archive, and not in 1902 – that he adopted when joining the Army, according to the Getúlio Vargas Foundation Historical Atlas.
Also joined the list of presidents with wrong spelling Afonso Pena, who ruled between 1906 and 1909. He appears with two letters “f” in his first name.
Artur da Silva Bernardes, president between 1922 and 1926, also appears in the gallery with the first name spelled wrongly, with a letter “h”. Another error is relative to fields Salles. Governor between 1898 and 1902, he was born on February 13, 1841 and not on February 15, as exposed.
Another with an error on his date of birth is Hermes da Fonseca, who was born on May 12, 1855, not on May 9.
