Jair Bolsonaro
Jair Messias Bolsonaro
Date of Birth: March 21, 1955
Jair Messias Bolsonaro - Brazilian politician, military. The 38th president of Brazil.
Place of Birth. Education. He was born on March 21, 1955, in Glicério, São Paulo, Brazil.
He graduated from the prestigious Agulhas Negras Military Academy in 1977. He served in the Brazilian Army (1971-1988) with the rank of captain.
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Political Career. He rose to prominence in 1986 through an interview with 'Veja' magazine in which he complained about low salaries in the army and the dismissal of officers due to budget cuts.
In 1988, he was first elected to the city council of Rio de Janeiro and has since been elected a member of parliament seven times.
Since 1991, he has been a member of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies.
In 2014, the majority of voters in the state of Rio de Janeiro voted for him in the general elections (464,000 votes).
He frequently changed parties (Christian Democratic, Progressive, Reformist-progressive, Workers' Party, Liberal Front Party).
He has been a member of the Social Christian Party (PSC) since March 2016 and attempted to lead the 'Patriot' party in 2017 but joined the Social Liberal Party in 2018.
In 2018, he ran for president. He was the first candidate to raise over 1 million reais in donations during the campaign: in the first 59 days, he received an average of 17,000 reais in daily donations from voters. After the arrest of the Workers' Party's preferred candidate, Lula da Silva, in April 2018, Bolsonaro led in the polls, although he was initially predicted to be a loser in the runoff.
On September 6, 2018, he was stabbed in the abdomen at a campaign event in Juiz de Fora and was taken to the hospital where he underwent two emergency surgeries.
On October 7, 2018, he received 46.06% of the votes in the presidential election and faced the Workers' Party candidate, Fernando Haddad, who was supported by 29.24% of voters, in the runoff. In the second round, he won with 55.13% of the votes.
In the 2022 Brazilian presidential election, the leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly defeated the current head of state Jair Bolsonaro.
Views. He is known for his far-right, nationalist, and conservative views, as well as his scandalous statements. Notably, he supports the military dictatorship and the repression during 1964-1985, justifies torture and executions as 'legitimate practices,' and advocates for their use. His vote for the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff was dedicated to the military leader who ran the torture program for political prisoners - including the then 'urban guerrilla' Dilma Rousseff.
He is an uncompromising critic of the current democracy and leftist forces. He has repeatedly made statements that were considered racist, homophobic, and misogynistic: he referred to Black activists as 'animals that should be taken to the zoo,' criticized quotas and other support for discriminated groups, is very opposed to LGBT rights, and often insults female politicians. For a remark he made during a dispute with deputy Maria do Rosário (who called him a 'rapist'), the court fined him for moral damages. He stands for an economically liberal agenda, against land reform, secularism, and drug legalization.
Among his role models are Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who dissolved parliament and was convicted of numerous crimes, and Donald Trump, whose electoral victory inspired him with right-wing populist slogans.
Quotes.
On Democracy: 'I advocate for dictatorship. We will never solve serious national problems with this frivolous democracy.'
On Torture and Death Penalty: 'The death penalty will prevent crime. I have never seen someone executed on the electric chair commit murder again. The death penalty should be applied to every intentional crime.'
On Similarity with Trump: 'Trump faced the same attacks that I face - that he is homophobic, fascist, racist, a Nazi - but people believed in his program, and I applauded him.'
On Homosexuality: 'I would prefer my son to die in an accident than to be gay.'
On Women and His Only Daughter: 'I have five sons. Four were born as men, only with the last one I made a mistake - it turned out to be a girl.'
To Deputy Maria do Rosário, Bolsonaro said