Jair Bolsonaro

Overview

Bolsonaro was born on 21 March 1955 in Glicério, São Paulo, in southeast Brazil, to Percy Geraldo Bolsonaro and Olinda Bonturi. His family is mostly of Italian descent, with some German ancestry. In his final years in high school, Bolsonaro was admitted to the Escola Preparatória DE Cadetes do Exército (the prep school of the Brazilian Army), which he entered in 1973. In 1974, he went to the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras (Brazil's main military academy), graduating in 1977, as an Artillery officer. He served in the 9th Field Artillery Group, in Nioaque, Mato Grosso do Sul.
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He is of predominantly Italian descent and some German roots. His paternal great-grandparents were from the Italian provinces of Veneto and Calabria. His German ancestry hails from his father's maternal grandfather Carl "Carlos" Hintze who was born in 1876 in Hamburg and emigrated to Brazil in 1883. His maternal grandparents were born in Lucca, Tuscany Italy and emigrated to Brazil in the 1890s.
He was a 7-Term Congressman who was first elected to Brazil's Chamber of Deputies in February 1991, having only two projects approved in over 26 years.
In the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Election, he won 57,797,847 popular votes of 55.1% against his Left-Wing Worker's Party (PT) rival Fernando Haddad who won 47,040,906 popular votes of 44.9%. Bolsonaro's vote tally of 57,797,847 votes is the Social Liberal Party's Best ever result in a presidential election and comes second to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Worker's Party who won the 2006 Brazilian Presidential Election with 58,295,042 votes.
Elected President of Brazil on 28 October 2018.
He is a big fan of Donald Trump and is often called the Brazilian Trump for his extreme and conservative views. Journalist Glenn Greenwald contested this, stating "he's actually much closer to say Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte or even the Egyptian dictator General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in terms of what he believes and what he's probably capable of carrying out".

So what if you die! I'm not a gravedigger!
I already tried to change our security in Rio de Janeiro and I couldn't. That is over. I'm not going to wait for [the federal police] to fuck my family and friends just for shits and giggles.
I've just taken a blood exam. I was a bit weak yesterday. They have also found a bit of an infection. I'm taking antibiotics now. It must have been those 20 days inside the house, we catch other things. I've caught mold, mold in my lungs. It must be that.
I reaffirm my commitment to building a society without discrimination or division.
Everyone has to buy rifles, man. An armed people will never be enslaved.

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