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On 1943, during the so-called Mantiqueira Conference, the party secretly met in the small city of Engenheiro Passos, Rio de Janeiro, and in an open letter to Vargas decided to support a declaration of war on the Axis.

At the same time, Luís Carlos Prestes was elected to the party's presidency.

On 1945, after Vargas's dictatorship ended, the PCB became legal once again.

By 1947, it had nearly two hundred thousand members.

In the 1947 legislative election, it received 480 thousand votes or about 9 % of total votes cast.

However, this period of official tolerance did not last long, as President Dutra denounced the PCB as " internationalist, and therefore not committed to Brazil's own interests " in 1948, an action supported by the American government.