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Testimony by the former governor of Rio Grande do Sul (1959-1963) and Rio de Janeiro (1983-1987), Leonel Brizola (1922-2004), for the project “Brazil: Political Memory”. The extension course promoted by the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) in partnership with the City of Campinas was based on testimonies by notable political figures from the country's history, conceived and mediated by journalist Paulo Markun. Recorded at the Cultural Coexistence Center of Campinas on June 22, 1987, the testimony by Brizola, then national president of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT), addressed the beginning of his political career in Rio Grande do Sul, through his exile, until his work in the 1980s in the government of Rio de Janeiro. During the course, he stated that the PDT's main concern at that time was not to launch him as a candidate for President of the Republic, but rather to try to form alliances with other political parties. Also present at the panel were the rector of Unicamp, Paulo Renato Souza (1945-2011), the mayor of Campinas, José Roberto Magalhães Teixeira (1937-1996), and Unicamp professor Plínio Dentzien. The material is part of the collection of TV Unicamp, which is responsible for the capture, editing and preservation.