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He is of predominantly Italian descent and some German roots. His paternal great-grandparents were from the Italian provinces of Veneto and Calabria. His German ancestry hails from his father's maternal grandfather Carl "Carlos" Hintze who was born in 1876 in Hamburg and emigrated to Brazil in 1883. His maternal grandparents were born in Lucca, Tuscany Italy and emigrated to Brazil in the 1890s.

He was a 7-Term Congressman who was first elected to Brazil's Chamber of Deputies in February 1991, having only two projects approved in over 26 years.

In the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Election, he won 57,797,847 popular votes of 55.1% against his Left-Wing Worker's Party (PT) rival Fernando Haddad who won 47,040,906 popular votes of 44.9%. Bolsonaro's vote tally of 57,797,847 votes is the Social Liberal Party's Best ever result in a presidential election and comes second to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Worker's Party who won the 2006 Brazilian Presidential Election with 58,295,042 votes.

Elected President of Brazil on 28 October 2018.

He is a big fan of Donald Trump and is often called the Brazilian Trump for his extreme and conservative views. Journalist Glenn Greenwald contested this, stating "he's actually much closer to say Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte or even the Egyptian dictator General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in terms of what he believes and what he's probably capable of carrying out".

He is an avowed admirer of Brazil's military dictatorship which ruled the country from 1964 to 1985 after a coup d'état led by the Armed Forces.

He was inaugurated the 38th President of Brazil on Tuesday January 1, 2019, becoming the country's first democratically elected Right-Wing President since Fernando Henrique Cardoso of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) who became President of Brazil on January 1, 1995 and left office on January 1, 2003.