ABSTRACT
This article intends to investigate the senses of queremismo as a concept during the redemocratization in 1945. It normally appears in the historiography to describe the manifestations supporting Vargas. These bore demands concerning his candidacy to presidency or his participation in the formulation of the new Constitution under the slogan "Queremos Getúlio". However it is possible to demonstrate how the term was built through the political debates at the time. By pursuing an approach related to the history of concepts, I will investigate how it emerged in newspapers from oppositionists and supporters of Estado Novo. Thus queremismo, as a historical creation, reveals a trajectory and diverse political uses. Some of these had to do with social groups that supported Getúlio Vargas'continuity in the centre of political power.
Keywords:
Queremismo; Redemocratization in 1945; Press; Liberalism; Getúlio Vargas