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Jair Bolsonaro Net Worth: What Is Jair Bolsonaro Net Worth?: Jair Bolsonaro, officially known as Jair Messias Bolsonaro was born on March 21, 1955.
He’s a Brazilian politician and retired military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 until 2022.
Bolsonaro graduated from the Agulhas Negras Military Academy in 1977 and served in the Brazilian Army’s field artillery and parachutist units.
In 1986, he became famous after he was arrested and detained for 15 days for writing an article for Veja magazine criticizing low wages for military officers.
A year later, the Veja magazine accused him of planning to plant bombs in military units, which he denied. A lower court convicted him, but the Brazilian Superior Military Court acquitted him in 1988.
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After eventually leaving the military, Bolsonaro announced his candidacy for president in March 2016 as a member of the Social Christian Party
In 2018, he left the party (Social Christian Party) and joined the Social Liberal Party, and then launched his presidential campaign in August of that year
Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 as a member of the Social Liberal Party, which he turned into a conservative party before cutting ties with it. In 2021, he joined the conservative Liberal Party
From 1991 to 2018, Bolsonaro served in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, representing the state of Rio de Janeiro.
During the general election on 7th October 2018, Bolsonaro came in first place in the first round with Workers’ Party candidate, Fernando Haddad coming in second.
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The two candidates had a runoff on 28 October 2018, and Bolsonaro was elected with 55.1% of the popular vote. He placed many army officers in key positions in his cabinet.
Before his inauguration, he said he would fill positions in his government based only on technical qualifications and skills rather than ideological sympathy.
On October 30, 2022, in the runoff of the 2022 Brazilian general election, Bolsonaro lost to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, becoming the first president in Brazil to lose his re-election bid.
On January 8, 2023, his supporters stormed the nation’s highest institutions, including Congress, calling for a coup d’état. Bolsonaro eventually condemned the protesters and denied responsibility.
In March 2023, Jair Bolsonaro hit the headlines after it was reported that he would be returning to Brazil for the first time since the January 8 riots.
The former Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro is on his way back to Brazil after spending a couple of months in the United States of America.
Jair Bolsonaro is returning for the first time since supporters stormed the Supreme Court, Congress, and the presidential palace in January 2023.
The riots came after weeks of protests claiming fraud in his (Jair Bolsonaro) defeat to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Jair Bolsonaro Net Worth: What Is Jair Bolsonaro Net Worth?
As of March 2023, Jair Bolsonaro had an estimated net worth of about $8.1 million.
Source: Ghgossip.com
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