The politics of Pernambuco is the direction of Pernambuco's territory and the determination of the powers that make up its government structure. It is governed by three branches, the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary, and its current constitution was enacted on October 5, 1989; the first constitution was enacted in 1891 and after that there were three others. The executive power has as central figures the governor, who is elected to office by direct vote and has a four-year term with the right to one reelection and a vice-governor, the latter taking over the functions of the former when it's unable to exercise them for any reason; currently the positions are held by Raquel Lyra (PSDB) and Priscila Krause (Cidadania). The legislative branch is represented by the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco (Assembleia Legislativa de Pernambuco - Alepe), which has 49 state deputies, elected every four years, whose main function is to analyze and vote on bills at the state level; the current president of Alepe is Eriberto Medeiros. The judiciary is represented by the Court of Justice of Pernambuco (Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco - TJPE), and its main function is to make judgments based on state laws. The court has 52 judges and is currently presided over by Adalberto de Oliveira Melo. The symbols that represent Pernambuco are the flag, the coat of arms, and the anthem; and they symbolize its history and identity. The flag was based on the one utilized during the Pernambucan Revolution of 1817, in which the Pernambucans fought for the state's independence from the Portuguese Crown. The coat of arms has in its symbolism several elements that can be related to the history of Pernambuco, and the anthem is an exaltation of the conquests and the past of the Pernambucan people. History First years At the beginning of Brazil's colonization in 1530, King John III of Portugal (r. 1521–1557) divided the territory into hereditary captaincies The first donee of the Captaincy of Pernambuco was Duarte Coelho, who took possession of it in 1535 and named it "Nova Lusitânia" It became the richest in Brazil, due to the production of sugarcane, and was also the state responsible for more than half of Brazil's sugarcane exports. Speaking about the center of the colonial economy, Father Fernão Cardim said that "in Pernambuco one finds more vanity than in Lisbon", an opulence that seemed to derive, as