 The coup put an end to the government of Goulart (also known as 'Jango'), a member of the Brazilian Labour Party, who had been democratically elected Vice President in the same election in which conservative Jânio Quadros, from the National Labour Party and backed by the National Democratic Union, won the presidency.Quadros resigned in 1961, the same year of his inauguration, in a clumsy political maneuver to increase his popularity.Quadros anticipated those mass demonstrations would demand his return to office and strengthen his position, but he miscalculated.