In, already meanwhile determined in its choice finally in day 4 of January, president Ernesto Geisel criticizes the report and reaffirms its choice before general Hugo Abreu. But this, in turn, extends its critical to the group pr-Figueiredo, where it nominally cites the Golberi minister of the Couto and Silva and Heitor secretaries Ferreira and Humberto Barreto and asked for resignation of the Military Cabinet, being substituted for general Gustavo de Morais I water. In the following day, president Geisel finally legalizes the indication of the plate Figueiredo-Aureliano Joo Keys, affirming that she searchs capable people of ' ' to take ahead the institutionalization process and to eliminate the effective emergency laws in pas' ' defining ' ' the trajectory of that the revolution would follow daqui for diante' '. Sufficiently worried in consolidating the chosen indication of its, Figueiredo Joo, president Ernesto Geisel had that to use all its authority so that the High Command of the Army included the name of it in first place in the general-of-division list that could receive fourth star in March of 1978, condition important to increase the military endorsement of the candidate, who occupied at this time the fifth place in the normal order of promotions to the maximum rank of the hierarchy. Leaving victorious for six votes against four, president Geisel finally promoted Figueiredo the general-of-army in 31 of March, date of 14 anniversary of the movement 1964 politician-military man, neglecting at the same time general Hugo Abreu, second in the normal order foreseen by the Register of the Army. At the same time where it obtained to nominate Figueiredo general-of-army, in the field politician, the government answered to this set of pressures with the sending the National Congress, in June, of a package of measures that they searched to inside guarantee the continuation of the politics of opening of the limits defined for the proper military regimen.