Progressistas is a centre-right to right-wing political party in Brazil. Founded in 1995 as the Brazilian Progressive Party,it emerged from parties that were successors to ARENA,the ruling party of the Brazilian military dictatorship. A pragmatist party,it supported the governments of presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,Dilma Rousseff,Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro. Largely it was the party of the politics of Paulo Maluf,a former governor and mayor of São Paulo. Of all political parties,in corruption investigation Operation Car Wash,the Progressistas had the most convictions.
The Republicans,formerly the Brazilian Republican Party and originally formed as the Municipalist Renewal Party,is a Brazilian political party. Its electoral number,the numerical assignment for Brazilian political parties,is 10.
Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and retired military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as member of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019.
General elections were held in Brazil on 7 October 2018 to elect the president,National Congress and state governors. As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round,a runoff round was held on 28 October.
The 2018 presidential campaign of Jair Bolsonaro was announced on 3 March 2016. Brazilian federal deputy and former military officer Jair Bolsonaro became the official nominee of the Social Liberal Party during their convention on 22 July 2018. The running mate decision came later on 8 August,when General Hamilton Mourão was chosen to compose the ticket with Bolsonaro. By choosing Mourão as running mate Bolsonaro secured a coalition with the Brazilian Labour Renewal Party.
Jair Bolsonaro's tenure as the 38th president of Brazil began with his inauguration on January 1,2019,and ended on January 1,2023. Bolsonaro took office following his victory in the 2018 general election,defeating Fernando Haddad. His presidency ended after one term in office,following his defeat in the 2022 general election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In the years Brazil has been a democracy since 1985,Bolsonaro became the first president to lose an election as an incumbent.
Luiz Henrique Mandetta is a Brazilian pediatric orthopedist and politician,member of the Brazil Union (UNIÃO). 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.
Gustavo Henrique Moreira Montezano is a Brazilian economist and businessman who served as the president of the Brazilian Social and Economic Development Bank from 2019 to 2023.
Events in the year 2020 in Brazil.
Since the 2018 Brazilian general election,polling companies have published surveys tracking voting intention for the next election. The results of these surveys are listed below in reverse chronological order and include candidates who frequently polled above 3%.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil has resulted in 37,511,921 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 702,116 deaths. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Brazil on 25 February 2020,when a man from São Paulo who had traveled to Italy 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 one millionth case and nearly 49,000 reported deaths. One estimate of under-reporting was 22.62% of total reported COVID-19 mortality in 2020.
Eduardo Pazuello is a Brazilian divisional general of the Brazilian Army and politician,he served as Minister of Health between 2020 and 2021.
Moro x Bolsonaro Case,also known as Moro Case or Inquiry (INQ) 4831,refers to a police investigation in which statements made by former minister Sergio Moro about President Jair Bolsonaro's alleged attempt to interfere politically in Federal Police of Brazil and in investigations related to his family members.
The 2021 Brazilian protests were popular demonstrations that took place in different regions of Brazil in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Protests both supporting and opposing the government happened.
Marcelo Antônio Cartaxo Queiroga Lopes is a Brazilian cardiologist,who served as minister of health of Brazil,from 23 March 2021 to 31 December 2022. He was 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.
The COVID-19 CPI,also known as Pandemic CPI,Coronavirus CPI,or simply COVID CPI,was a parliamentary inquiry commission from Brazil,with the goal to investigate alleged omissions and irregularities in federal government actions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. It was created on April 13,2021 and officially installed in the Brazilian Senate on April 27,2021. It ended with the voting of the final report on October 26,2021.
Nise Hitomi Yamaguchi is a Brazilian physician with the American ECFMG-ES tests. She has a master's degree in immunology and a doctorate in oncology clinical medicine,and is an international speaker for matters of health. As a scientist,her areas of research are personalized medicine,translational research in oncology,and immunology. She utilizes knowledge of genetics,epigenetics,and omics to understand and treat many diseases,including cancer. As of April 2022,she is not affiliated with any political party.
Among the main controversies involving Jair Bolsonaro are his right-wing populist position,his criticism of the political left,his classification of torture as a legitimate practice,his opposition to LGBT rights and several other questionable statements,which have led to 30 calls for his impeachment and three court convictions. Several international organizations consider that his authoritarian tendencies threaten to cause irreparable harm to civil society,the press,Afro-Brazilians,indigenous people and critics of the government. Bolsonaro also has a hostile relationship with the press and has been accused of proliferating fake news.
