Jair Bolsonaro

Jair Bolsonaro's first marriage was to Rogéria Nantes Braga, with whom he has three sons named Flávio, Carlos and Eduardo. Both Flávio and Eduardo are lawyers and politicians.

After getting divorced from his first wife, he again married a woman named Ana Cristina, who is the mother of his fourth son, Renan.

In 2013, he married Michelle de Paula Firmo Reinaldo Bolsonaro, who gave birth to his only daughter Laura who, according to Bolsonaro, was produced out of "a moment of weakness".

Jair Messias Bolsonaro was born on March 21, 1955 in Campinas, São Paulo, a town in the southeast region of Brazil, to Perci Geraldo Bolsonaro and Olinda Bonturi. He is the third of his parents' six children, and has two brothers and three sisters.

His father, a dentist without a college degree, had settled in Eldorado after the kids were born as there were not many dentists there. However, after trained dentists appeared, he was taken to the Forum and ended up working in the prosthetics.

Jair Bolsonaro got into the Preparatory School of Brazilian Army during his final years in school and later was sent to the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras. He graduated from there in 1977 and served with the army's parachutist units for a while.

Bolsonaro, who served in the military for 17 years and reached the rank of Captain, first gained public attention in 1986 after he complained to 'Veja' magazine about low salaries and firing of officers. He was reprimanded by his superiors for his action, but had become sort of a hero to fellow officers, wives of military personnel and far-right activists.

In 1988, after joining the military reserve, Jair Bolsonaro launched his political career under the ticket of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) and was elected city councilor in Rio de Janeiro. He remained on that post till February 1st, 1991, when he assumed office as the Federal Deputy of the second largest economic state of Brazil.

He was the Chamber of Deputies Vice Leader for PDC and fought for the party in the 1990 elections. Upon being elected as a federal congressman, he served first term in office from February 1991 to February 1995 and was re-elected for six consecutive terms.

In 1993, he switched support to the newly founded Progressive Party (PP), which later merged with the Reform Progressive Party (RPP) in 1995 to form the Brazilian Progressive Party (PPB). That year, he was re-elected for the post under the flag of RPP and assumed office for his second term on February 1st, 1995.

He was re-elected twice more in the same post under the banner of PPB, in 1999 and 2003, but was affiliated with the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) from 2003 to 2005.

In 2005, he briefly joined the Liberal Front Party (PFL), the primary right-wing party in Brazilian politics.

A far-right politician with nationalist and populist views, Jair Bolsonaro has been criticized throughout his career for his strong opposition to left-wing policies. Described as a traditional right-wing conservationist by his supporters, he is vehemently opposed to same-sex marriage, abortion, immigration, affirmative action, drug liberalization, land reforms, and secularism.

He believes that women should receive less salary because of the possibility of getting pregnant, and wants to introduce law mandating that paid maternity leave harms work productivity. For his remark that politician Maria do Rosário was "not worthy of being raped", he was fined in court for potentially inciting rape and defaming the honor of his fellow Deputy.

In an interview with the 'Playboy' magazine, he had said that he would not be able to love a gay son and would rather prefer that his son dies in an accident. At different times, he has promised to fight the distribution of gay kits proposed by UNESCO, linked homosexuality to pedophilia, publicly defended beating gay children, and was fined for televised homophobic comments.

He has publicly glorified the Brazilian military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985 several times during his career. He even went on to state on TV that he himself would instigate a military coup if he ever became President.

He feels that the poor lack the education to do proper family planning and should be sterilized.