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Enéas Carneiro

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A.k.a. Enéas Ferreira Carneiro

Enéas Ferreira Carneiro (Rio Branco, November 5, 1938 - Rio de Janeiro, May 6, 2007) was a cardiologist and Brazilian physician. As politician, it founded the Party of Reedificación of the National Order, the Prona. After being elected three times as President of the Republic (1989, 1994 and 1998), and once to the city hall of São Paulo (2000), in 2002, he was elected Federal Deputy by the state of São Paulo, receiving a record vote: more than 1, 57 million votes, the highest vote ever recorded in the country. He became very famous throughout Brazil from 1989 (in his candidacy for the Presidency of that year), for his staff "My name is Enéas!", Always used at the end of his pronouncements in the free electoral time in Brazil. Enéas Ferreira Carneiro was born in the city of Rio Branco, in the state of Acre, in 1938. Son of Eustáquio José Carneiro, barber, and Mina Ferreiro Carneiro, housewife. He lost his father at the age of nine, being forced to work from that age to support himself and his mother. In 1958 he began his studies in Rio de Janeiro, at the School of Health of the Army. In 1959, he became the third assistant sergeant of anesthesiology, being first of his class. In 1960 he began his studies at the School of Medicine and Surgery of Rio de Janeiro. In February of 1962, he attended the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the State University of Guanabara (current UERJ), a licentiate course in mathematics and physics. Approved first. In the same year, he started teaching as a teacher in these disciplines, preparing students for entrance exams. In 1965, he graduated from the Rio de Janeiro School of Medicine and Surgery, then asked to leave the Army after 8 years of active service at the Army Central Hospital, where he assisted physicians in more than 5,000 anesthetics, having already received the Marechal Hermes medal. In 1968, he graduated in Mathematics and Physics from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the State University of Guanabara and founded the Gradiente Course, pre-university, where he was president and taught mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology is Portuguese. In 1969, he completed a specialization course in cardiology at the 6th Infirmary of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia in Rio de Janeiro, and from then on he was integrated as an assistant in that Cardiology Service. From 1973 to 1975 he completed a master's degree in cardiology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. During this period he also taught classes in physiology and cardiovascular semiology at the same university. In 1975 he presented the first version of his famous electrocardiogram course in Rio de Janeiro, later taught in São Paulo (1983), Quito - Ecuador (1985) and again in Rio de Janeiro (1986), this time as a national course, happened at the Copacabana Palace. In 1976, he defended his master's thesis, "Alentecimento da Conducção AV", and received his master's degree in cardiology from UFRJ. Still in 1976 he wrote the book The Electrocardiogram, reference in the genre. Published in 1977 and reissued in 1987 as The Electrocardiogram: 10 years later, this work is known in medical terms as the "Bible of the Enéas". Enéas founded the Prona in 1989, immediately becoming candidate for the presidency in the first direct elections of Brazil, after the period of the Military Dictatorship. His time in free election propaganda was seventeen seconds. However, his exotic appearance (a small, bald man with a huge beard and large glasses), combined with a quick speech and an inflamed and ultranationalist discourse (always ended by his staff: "My name is Eneas"), made with that the then unknown politician raised more than 360 thousand votes, placing him in 12th place among 21 candidates. The advertisement was always accompanied by Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven. Perceiving the penetration of its image next to the electorate, Enéas returned to apply in 1994, having then 1 minute and 17 seconds in the electoral time. Even though Prona was still a party, the result surprised policy experts. Enéas was the third most voted, with more than 4.6 million votes (7%), positioning himself ahead of well-known politicians, such as Rio de Janeiro governor Leonel Brizola and former governor of São Paulo Orestes Quércia , behind only Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In 1998, with 35 seconds available in electoral time - in the sum total, a shorter time than in 1989 -, Enéas presented his speech in which he defended controversial issues such as the construction of the atomic bomb, the expansion of military personnel and the nationalization of resources minerals of the Brazilian subsoil. In the presidential elections of that year, was the fourth place, with a total of 1.447.090 votes. In 2000 he applied to the city of São Paulo, obtaining 3% of the votes, and managed to gather votes for the election of his candidate to councilwoman Havanir Nimtz. In 2002 he applied for a federal deputy for São Paulo, obtaining the highest vote in Brazilian history for that office: about 1.57 million votes, a record that remains unmatched. His party obtained enough votes to elect five more federal deputies, all founding members of the party, through a proportional system, to work in Brasilia (even with empty votes, under a thousand votes). This episode was marked by the controversy that some of these candidates would have changed of electoral college of illegally only to be elected by the principle of proportionality, relying on the votes conferred to the party through Aeneas. Enéas also participated actively in the elections for mayors and councilors in 2004, helping to elect councilors in several capitals, such as Rio and São Paulo, and mayors in small towns. Enéas Carneiro presented himself as a nationalist politician and radically opposed to abortion and drug legalization. Many accused him of being against the civil union homoafetiva, a fact that he himself publicly denied in one of his interviews. Other critics have also tried to associate it with a kind of new symbol of the Integralist Movement. Analysts see Enéas as a fruit of modern democracy, claiming that its eccentric image and its staff ("My name is Enéas") overlap with its hermetic and intellectualized discourse against the poorer classes of Brazilian society. In early 2006, Enéas went through severe health problems, pneumonia and acute myeloid leukemia, making him choose to remove his iconic beard before chemotherapy did. Still in function of his health problems, in June of 2006 Enéas announced that he would give up his candidacy to the Presidency of the Republic and that would compete again to the Chamber of Deputies. In the new campaign, he changed his staff to "With a beard or without a beard, my name is Aeneas." He was re-elected with the fourth largest vote in the state of São Paulo, reaching 386,905 votes, about 1.90% of the votes valid in the state. After the first round of the presidential elections of 2006, his party, the Prona, merges with the PL and then a new party, the Party of the Republic, is founded. On May 6, 2007, at age 68, Eneas Carneiro died at his home, victim of acute myeloid leukemia, after having given up chemotherapy treatment and left the hospital where he was treated, Samaritan Hospital, believing that their treatment does not but would have an effect. His body was veiled on the morning of May 7 at the Memorial of Carmo (which is in the San Francisco Xavier Cemetery), and cremated, in the afternoon of the same day, at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia crematorium in Rio de Janeiro. The last request of Enéas was that his family threw his ashes in the Bay of Guanabara. His deputy in the Chamber was Luciana Castro de Almeida (PR, candidate for Prona), who had won only 3,980 votes in the 2006 election.

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