"Paulista" Washington Luís won the 1926 Brazilian presidential election with 98% of the vote, and his administration was an unusual period of prosperity, domestic peace, and tranquility. In accordance with the 'coffee with milk tradition', the candidate for the 1930 election should have been Antônio Carlos Ribeiro, then Governor of Minas Gerais. However, Ribeiro's backing for mandatory religious instruction in state public schools, coupled with the close relationship between Luis and Júlio Prestes, then Governor of São Paulo, led the Paulista Republican Party to support Prestes instead.