Jair Bolsonaro
| Jair Bolsonaro | |
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| Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro | |
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Assumed office 1 February 1991 |
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| Alderman of Rio de Janeiro | |
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In office 1 January 1989 – 1 February 1991 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
21 March 1955 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Political party | PDC (1989-1993) PP (1993) PPR (1993-1995) PPB (1995-2003) PTB (2003-2005) PFL 2005 PP (2005-2016) PSC (2016-present) |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Website | bolsonaro.com.br |
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| Allegiance |
 Brazil
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| Service/branch |
 Brazilian Army
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| Years of service | 11 years |
| Rank |
 Captain
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| Commands |
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Jair Messias Bolsonaro (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒaˈiʁ meˈsiɐs bowsoˈnaɾu]; born March 21, 1955) is a Brazilian congressman. He has been elected into the Chamber of Deputies by the Progressive Party (PP), and was the congressman who gained the most votes in the general elections of the state of Rio de Janeiro in 2014. A controversial figure in Brazil, he has been known for advocating in favor of far-right political views.
Bolsonaro is a pre-candidate for the 2018 Brazilian presidential election. In a 2017 opinion poll conducted by , Bolsonaro ranked third in two of three election scenarios presented and fourth in the other; in a prompt in which no candidate option is given, Bolsonaro comes in second place after former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro was formerly an army parachutist. In 1988, Bolsonaro entered a public political career by being elected city councilor in the capital city of Rio de Janeiro by the Christian Democratic Party. In the elections of 1990, he was elected federal congressman of the same party. He had four consecutive terms. He has been affiliated with several other Brazilian political parties.
Along with his political career, Bolsonaro has aligned himself to nationalist, conservative, anti-left, anti-communist political views and stances. Bolsonaro openly defends the past militarist regime that had been installed in Brazil in 1964 and its subsequent dictatorship.
In 2014, he was the congressman who gained the most votes in Rio de Janeiro, accounting for 464 thousand votes.
Bolsonaro has expressed many far-right political views during his long political career. He strongly advocates against the legalization of same sex-unions and same-sex marriage, whilst expressing statements that some people consider insulting, such as homophobic and violence-inciting, misogynistic and sexist, or racist and anti-refugee remarks. He advocates against affirmative action or quotas for any group, as well as against the decriminalization of drugs. Other controversial political stances expressed by Bolsonaro have been of the defense of the death penalty and of radical interventionism in Brazil by the military, along with an implantation of a Brazilian military government. He said in 1993, only eight years after the return of democracy, that the military regime had led to a more sustainable and prosperous Brazil. He also praised Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori as a role model for his use of military intervention against the judiciary and legislature.
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