Mário Frias is a Brazilian telenovela actor, and current Special Secretary of Culture, a cabinet position in president Jair Bolsonaro's federal administration.
The Ministry of Health is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil. Health Minister Nelson Teich resigned on 15 May 2020, which came just four weeks after he joined the Bolsonaro administration. He was replaced by General Eduardo Pazuello, an army officer with no medical training, and in March 2021, President Bolsonaro announced that Marcelo Queiroga, a cardiologist, will be the new health minister.
Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and retired military officer who is the 38th president of Brazil. Elected in 2018 as a member of the conservative Social Liberal Party before cutting ties with them, he has been in office since 1 January 2019. From 1991 to 2018 he served in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, representing the state of Rio de Janeiro.
The 2018 Brazilian presidential election were held in 2018 with two rounds of balloting in conjunction with elections to the National Congress, state governorships. As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round on 7 October 2018, a second-round runoff was held on 28 October 2018.
The presidency of Jair Bolsonaro started on 1 January 2019. He was elected the 38th president of Brazil on 28 October 2018 by obtaining 55.1% of the valid votes in the 2018 Brazilian general election, defeating Fernando Haddad.
Augusto Heleno Ribeiro Pereira is a Brazilian politician and retired General of the Brazilian Army. He was military commander of the Amazon and Chief of the Department of Science and Technology of the Army. Heleno has declared positions against official politics, particularly about the attitude of the international community in regards to Haiti and the indigenous politics of the Brazilian government.
Luiz Henrique Mandetta is a Brazilian pediatric orthopedist and politician, member of the Democrats (DEM). Mandetta was announced on 20 November 2018 as Minister of Health of president Jair Bolsonaro, replacing Gilberto Occhi. On 16 April 2020 he was fired by Bolsonaro after disagreements over social distancing policies during the coronavirus pandemic.
Opinion polling has been regularly conducted in Brazil since the start of Jair Bolsonaro's four-year term administration, gauging public support for the President of Brazil and his government. Typically, an approval rating is based on responses to a poll in which a sample of people are asked to evaluate the overall administration of the current president. Participants might also be asked whether they approve of the way president handles his job, if they trust him, to rate his personality, or to opine on various policies promoted by the government.
In December 2018 the final composition of Bolsonaro's cabinet has emerged after weeks of announcements and appointments. The cabinet includes 22 personnel, of which 16 are ministers, two are cabinet-level positions and four are secretaries directly linked to the presidency of Brazil. The 22 figure is down from 29 in the outgoing administration. Seven of the ministers will be military men; eight have technocrat profiles; and seven are politicians. Hindustan Times commented that "there are just two women in Bolsonaro’s government, which is double the number in the outgoing lineup under President Michel Temer", and that "there are no blacks, despite half of Brazil’s population being at least partly descended from Africans.
The #EleNãomovement, also known as the protests against Jair Bolsonaro, were demonstrations led by women which took place in several regions of Brazil and, with less intensity, in other countries. The main goal was to protest against Jair Bolsonaro and his presidential campaign. The protests, which occurred on September 29, 2018, were the most numerous protests by women in Brazil and the largest popular concentration during the 2018 Brazilian general election.
General elections are scheduled to be held in Brazil on 2 October 2022 to elect the President, Vice President and the National Congress. Elections for state Governors and Vice Governors, State Legislative Assemblies and the Federal District Legislative Chamber will be held at the same time.
Since the previous elections in 2018, polling companies have published surveys tracking voting intention for the 2022 Brazilian general election. The results of these surveys are listed below in reverse chronological order and include parties whose candidates frequently poll above 3% of the vote as well as the incumbent President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro.
André Luiz de Almeida Mendonça is a Brazilian attorney, Presbyterian pastor, and politician currently serving as the Minister of Justice and Public Security in the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro since April 2020. Prior to assuming this role, he served as Attorney General of Brazil in the same administration.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Brazil on 25 February 2020, when a man from São Paulo tested positive for the virus. The disease had spread to every federative unit of Brazil by 21 March. On 19 June 2020, the country reported its 1 millionth case; at this time, there had been nearly 49,000 reported deaths. As of April, Brazil, with over 14 million confirmed cases and over 400,000 deaths, has the third-highest number of confirmed cases and second-highest death toll from COVID-19 in the world, behind only the United States and India.
Eduardo Pazuello is a Brazilian Divisional general of the Brazilian Army and politician, he served as Minister of Health between 2020 and 2021.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.
Marcelo Antônio Cartaxo Queiroga Lopes is a Brazilian cardiologist, who is serving as Minister of Health of Brazil, from 23 March 2021 after being appointed by President Jair Bolsonaro to replace outgoing Minister Eduardo Pazuello. Queiroga is the fourth Minister of Health since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
Carlos Alberto Franco França is a Brazilian diplomat and Brazil's current Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed by President Jair Bolsonaro on the 29th of March 2021 to replace outgoing Minister Ernesto Araújo.
Terça Livre is a brazilian news portal maintained by Allan Lopes dos Santos and Italo Lorenzon Neto. The channel gained notoriety in the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections for its proximity to the family of Jair Bolsonaro,remaining as one of the most popular platforms in its defense, producing content aligned with conservatism and the ideas of the Brazilian right.
