Jair Bolsonaro was born on March 21, 1955 in Gilcerio, Sao Paulo. Italian and German in origin, Bolsonaro's grandfather was German and was a soldier of Adolf Hitler.
Jair Messias Bolsonaro (born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian politician and retired military officer who has been the 38th president of Brazil since 1 January 2019.
Bolsonaro began military training after high school. Senior officers described Bolsonaro, who began serving as a paratrooper in the army, as "ambitious and aggressive". Jair Bolsonaro, who served 17 years in the military, entered the Rio de Janeiro city council in 1988 as a member of the Christian Democratic Party. In 1990, he was elected as a federal congressman from the same party. He later joined various parties in the past years and left.
Bolsonaro, who joined the Social Liberal Party in January 2018, left his social liberal stances in this process and moved to the national conservative right-wing position.
Presidential campaign
Jair Bolsonaro was nominated as the presidential candidate on July 22, 2018, while his candidacy became official on August 6, 2018. Bolsonaro, who was less aggressive in the election campaign, addressed the citizens with his ultra-nationalistic and religious rhetoric.
Bolsonaro, who met with his supporters during the days of his campaign, was stabbed in the stomach on September 6, 2018. This attack on Jair Bolsonaro was condemned on both sides of the political spectrum and by Brazilian President Michel Temer.
Jair Bolsonaro is described as a nationalist and populist and advocates far-right policies. It is generally supported by young, middle-upper-line, conservatives and Christian groups. Known for his strong opposition to leftist policies, Bolsonaro draws attention with his homophobic and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Defending the military regime, Jair Bolsonaro's views on women are also highly criticized.
Look at woman
In an interview with Zero Hora in 2015, Bolsonaro said that women should not receive the same salary as men because women get pregnant, which hurts their productivity.
View of military administration
Jair Bolsonaro, who also has a military background, describes the years 1964-85, when Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, as a "glorious period" and says that under the military dictatorship, Brazil made 20 years of order and progress. In addition, Bolsonaro praised Alberto Fujimori, who ruled Peru with an oppressive administration, violated human rights and carried out extrajudicial executions against left-wing movements, as a role model. said it was.
Homophobia accusations
Jair Bolsonaro is also widely criticized for his homophobic rhetoric. Bolsonaro said that he would prefer his son to be killed in the accident rather than being gay, adding that the market value of a house near homosexuals would decrease. "No father is proud of his gay child," said Bolsonaro, suggesting that by beating gay children, their behavior can be changed.
2018 Brazilian elections
Elections in Brazil could not be completed in the first round. In the first round, the far-right candidate of the Social Liberal Party, Jair Bolsonaro, received 46.3 percent of the votes. The Labor Party's candidate, Fernando Haddad, received 28.9 percent of the vote.
The second round of the presidential election was held on Sunday, October 28, 2018. The far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the election with 55 percent of the vote.
November 2020
Jair Bolsonaro stated that he was tired of the fact that the pandemic was constantly on the agenda, and made homobic statements by saying, "We have to stop being a fagot country"
Bolsonaro, who previously described the measures taken against the new type of coronavirus as "hysteria and delusion", said that he found the quarantine and measures exaggerated by reacting to the governors who made an emergency decision due to the epidemic.
Defining Covid-19 as "the minor flu", Bolsonaro does not take into account the international consensus in the fight against the coronavirus.
Bolsonaro, who also opposed wearing a mask, caught Covid-19 on July 7 and was announced to have recovered on July 25.