However, on 11 January 2016, when he began to present himself as a pre-candidate to the Presidency of Brazil, Bolsonaro began to moderate his discourse on gay people by publishing a video on his official YouTube channel:

Many observers accused Bolsonaro of egregiously misleading the country when it came to Brazil’s unsteady and ultimately tragically inadequate response to the spread of the potentially deadly COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, cases of which had originally been reported in China in December 2019. In March 2020, after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global pandemic, state and local governments in Brazil began instituting aggressive social-distancing and lockdown measures to combat the disease.

[54] He also promised more austerity measures and cuts in government spending, but had difficulty naming the areas where he would make cuts. He also said he would work to diminish the federal government's size and bureaucracy by enacting a wide variety of deregulation measures.[55] Bolsonaro's promises to restore security amid record high crime and to stamp out Brazil's rampant political corruption won him huge popular support.[56] In October, he announced he would name liberal economist Paulo Guedes as his finance minister.[57]

Throughout his political career, Bolsonaro has made several admiring comments about the U.S.–supported Brazilian military dictatorship which ruled the country from 1964 to 1985. He said in 1993, eight years after the return of democracy, that the military regime had "led to a more sustainable and prosperous Brazil".

Using his outsider status to his advantage, Bolsonaro cast himself as an antiestablishment insurgent candidate with little concern for political correctness—in the vein of Donald Trump, who had successfully leveraged that stance to win the 2016 U.S. presidential election; indeed, Bolsonaro was soon labeled the “Trump of the Tropics.” Bolsonaro also won the support of the country’s considerable Evangelical Christian population with his steadfast opposition to abortion, and his championing of law-and-order policies appealed to Brazilians concerned with crime and violence.

Sociologist Christina Vital of the Fluminense Federal University stated that this act was more than an expression of conversion to Evangelicalism and was meant to create an ambiguous religious identity, through which the Bolsonaro family could appeal to the various groups of voters.[269]

According to political pundits, Bolsonaro moderated his tone early in the campaign, taking a less aggressive and confrontational style. Economically, he started to support less government intervention in the economy (in contrast to the past, when he defended developmentalist policies). On the other hand, he maintained his tough stance on crime and his defense of "traditional family values".[53] Bolsonaro also said he planned to cut taxes across the board, particularly on inheritances and businesses, to generate growth and tackle unemployment.

Quaisquer tempo depois dos atritos públicos entre este general Santos bolsonaro jair wikipedia Cruz e Carlos Bolsonaro junto a Olavo, que colocou pelo topo do Twitter a tag #ForaSantosCruz, o general foi exonerado pelo presidente Bolsonaro, se tornando o primeiro militar a deixar este governo.

Chefe da Receita envia áudio a auditores e anuncia bônus em meio a negociação do ajuste fiscal Secretário afirma de que Lula deve assinar decreto em breve; salário máximo Têm a possibilidade de chegar ao teto do funcionalismo

Justice Fachin's decision could clear the way for Lula to run for the presidency in 2022, where his main rival would likely be Mr Bolsonaro, who is widely expected to run for a second term in office.

He received housing assistance for deputies who do not have residences in Brasilia despite having an apartment in the southwest of Brasilia. He has later admitted that he considers this practice of his “immoral.”[42] He has also been accused of engaging in fuel allowance fraud.[43]

I wish Brazil had a family planning program. It's not even worthy to talk about education when most of these [poor] people are not prepared to receive education, therefore they won't educate themselves. Only rigid birth control can save us from chaos. An educated man and woman will hardly desire an Em excesso child with the sole purpose of engaging in a social welfare assistance program [as it is nowadays]. We need to adopt a rigid birth control policy. We can't make demagogic speeches any longer, proposing bills and means of government to support these poor people [who] are increasingly proliferating throughout the country.

O jornal argentino La Nacion disse de que "a imagem do POR DIA é 1 presidente descontrolado, jogando tudo ou nada".

Em 2008, quando este aquecimento da demanda e da atividade econômica nacional já geravam preocupações de modo a o cumprimento DE metas por inflaçãeste e obrigavam este Banco Central a apertar a política monetária por meio do aumento da taxa básica por juros, a crise financeira mundial originada nos Estados Unidos atingiu este Brasil no último trimestre de 2008, levando o governo a implantar entre 2008 e 2009 um conjunto de medidas de modo a conter os efeitos negativos pelo sistema financeiro.