Admin l Monday, October 29, 2018
BRASILIA, Brazil – Far right candidate, Jair Bolsonaro has emerged winner of the Presidential election in Brazil. Bolsonaro, a former captain in the army secured 55.2 percent to defeat Fernando Haddad of the Left-wing Workers Party who secured 44.8 percent of total vote cast.
Bolsonaro(63) has pledge to fight crime and corruption and that he will defend democracy and uphold the constitution. He hopes to restore security by relaxing gun laws which will allow “every honest citizens” to own a gun. He will be sworn in January 1, 2019.
So far, Bolsonaro has been receiving congratulatory messages from world leaders. Chilean President Sebastián Piñera congratulated Brazilians for a “clean and democratic election”.
White House spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders said in a statement that President Trump has called President-elect Bolsonaro of Brazil to congratulate him and the Brazilian people on today’s elections. “Both expressed a strong commitment to work side by side to improve the lives of the people of the United States and Brazil.”, she said.
Born in Campinas, Jair Bolsonaro is a reserve military man and federal deputy. He is in his seventh term in the Chamber of Deputies, elected by the Progressive Party. He was the most voted deputy of the State of Rio de Janeiro in the general elections of 2014, with 464,565 votes. In this legislative session, Bolsonaro is the head of the Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense and alternate member of the Committee on Public Security and Combating Organized Crime, in addition to being a member of the Commission on Human and Minority Rights in other sessions.
He is the father of Carlos Bolsonaro, councilman in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Flávio Bolsonaro, deputy state of Rio de Janeiro, and Eduardo Bolsonaro, federal deputy for São Paulo elected by the PSC, party association to which all are currently affiliated.
Jair Bolsonaro is known for his positions in defense of the family, national sovereignty, the right to property and the social values of work and free enterprise. Their political banners are strongly opposed by leftist ideology parties.
In its parliamentary mandates, it stood out in the fight against the eroticization of children in schools and by a greater disciplinary rigor in these establishments, by the reduction of the criminal majority, by the armament of the citizen of good and right to the self defense, by the legal security in the police action and for Christian values. He was the creator of the printed vote, which will certainly contribute to the holding of more reliable and auditable elections.https://www.bolsonaro.com.br
