Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  Brazil's unemployment down to 11.9% in the third quarter

  

  Brazil's unemployment rate fell for the sixth straight month in September, according to government data released on Tuesday, two days after far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro was elected president on a promise of sweeping change. The jobless rate -- measured in sliding three-month intervals -- was 11.9% for the period from July to September, down from 12.1% from June to August.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 11:00 UTC

  Bolsonaro pledges to help the Venezuelan people end the dictatorship but through peaceful means

  

  The president elect of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro in his first television interview as president elect said it was necessary to solve the problem of the Venezuela dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro, but underlined “there will be no intervention in Caracas, it will be through peaceful means”.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  Future economy minister says Mercosur not a priority for Bolsonaro's Brazil

  

  Mercosur is not a priority, and Argentina is not a priority for the new government of Brazil, the priority is to trade with all the world. The strong statement came from Paulo Guedes, signaled as the next Finance minister of president elect Jair Bolsonaro's cabinet and a crucial player in that team since the newly elected leader has admitted a limited knowledge of economics.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 07:23 UTC

  Bolsonaro wants Brazil's top anti corruption judge as his Justice minister

  

  Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro says he wants the country's best-known anti-corruption judge to be justice minister or to serve on the Supreme Court. Sergio Moro has been the driving force behind an anti-corruption probe known as Operation Car Wash.

• Monday, October 29th 2018 - 10:31 UTC

  Electoral Tribunal sends strong message to president elect Bolsonaro underlining the no-incident election

  

  At exactly 19h18m, Sunday 28 October, the Electoral Superior Tribunal, TSE, minister Rosa Weber stated that Jair Bolsonaro, candidate for the “Brazil above all, God above all of us” coalition was mathematically elected president of Brazil. The new president is to take office next January first, for the period from 2019 to 2022.

• Monday, October 29th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Almost a third of Brazilian voters rejected polarization, and abstained

  

  With 99.99% of votes counted, it has become evident that one third of Brazilians turned their backs on the two candidates which have polarized the presidential election and its runoff this Sunday, 28 October.

• Monday, October 29th 2018 - 08:26 UTC

  Trump talks to Bolsonaro: looking forward to working side-by-side “as regional leaders of the Americas”

  

  United States president Donald Trump called Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday to congratulate him on his election victory and both men expressed a strong commitment to work together, the White House said.

• Monday, October 29th 2018 - 00:08 UTC

  Ultra-Rightist Jair Bolsonaro, President-Elect of Brazil

  

  Jair Bolsonaro, a nostalgic of the Brazilian military dictatorship, has been chosen as the new president of the largest economy in Latin America after one of the most divided and tense campaigns in the history of the country obtaining 55% of the votes after the scrutiny of more than 99% of the polls.

• Sunday, October 28th 2018 - 17:06 UTC

  Haddad and Bolsonaro already voted in decisive elections for Brazil and the region

  

  One in Sao Paulo and the other in Rio de Janeiro; the candidates Jair Bolsonaro and Fernando Haddad cast their votes this morning with the confidence that the surveys give to Bolsonaro, and the hope of the latter to reverse this advantage, warning Bolsonaro's threat to Brazil's democracy in the most polarized presidential elections in the recent history of the country.

• Sunday, October 28th 2018 - 16:55 UTC

  Last minute polls confirm Bolsonaro will be Brazil's next elected president

  

  The ultra right candidate Jair Bolsonaro continued ahead of Fernando Haddad in the runoff for the Brazilian presidency scheduled to take place this Sunday, 28 October. According to the latest public opinion poll, released late Saturday, the ex Army captain and paratrooper had a 54% of valid votes support while the Workers Party hopeful stood at 46%, that is an eight points difference.