 This time, however, the military placed the Electoral College under no coercion, so that its members would be free to select the President of their choice.The Chamber of Deputies and the State Assemblies had been elected, already under the "abertura process" in the 1982 parliamentary election, but the Senators were chosen indirectly, by the State Assemblies, under rules that had been passed by the Military Regime in 1977 to counter the growing support of the opposition