Flávio Bolsonaro

After the United States struck Iran, he put out a note calling the Lula government's condemnation of the strikes unacceptable and describing the Iranian government as a sponsor of terrorism with a military nuclear programme.

“This is a government that funds and supports terrorist organisations, that publicly shouts "death to America", that openly calls for "wiping Israel off the map" and that keeps a nuclear programme that is plainly for military purposes.”

In Portuguese: Trata-se de um governo que financia e apoia organizações terroristas, que grita publicamente “morte à América”, que defende abertamente “varrer Israel do mapa” e que mantém um programa nuclear notoriamente para fins militares.

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Rejecting a condemnation of strikes on the regime and naming it a terror sponsor with a military nuclear programme is pressure on the Islamic Republic.

In the same note he said the Iranian government represses its own people with systematic violence, women above all.

“At home, it represses its population with systematic violence, especially against women, and thousands of dead.”

In Portuguese: Internamente, reprime sua população com violência sistemática, em especial contra mulheres, e milhares de mortos.

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Speaking up for Iranians, and Iranian women by name, against their rulers counts as with liberty.

In a speech in Buenos Aires he promised that, if elected, Brazil would again send an ambassador to Israel and would move its embassy to Jerusalem in 2027.

“In 2027, Brazil will not only have an ambassador in Israel again, it will take the step of moving its embassy to the capital of Israel: Jerusalem.”

In Portuguese: Em 2027, o Brasil não apenas voltará a ter embaixador em Israel, como dará o passo de transferir sua embaixada para a capital de Israel: Jerusalém.

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Restoring the ambassador and moving the embassy to Jerusalem treats Israel as an ally.

On the day United States forces captured Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, he posted that it was the end of the Foro de São Paulo, which he tied to drug trafficking and support for terrorists and dictatorships.

“It is the end of the Foro de São Paulo: international drug and arms trafficking, money laundering, support for terrorists and dictatorships, rigged elections”

In Portuguese: É o fim do Foro de São Paulo: tráfico internacional de drogas e armas, lavagem de dinheiro, suporte a terroristas e ditaduras, eleições fraudadas

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Welcoming the fall of the Maduro government is standing against Venezuela's rulers, one of the clients this measure names.

In a filing to the United States trade office he proposed that Brazil commit by law to keeping its Pix payment system out of non-Western cross-border payment networks, such as those the BRICS group is building.

“The decisive signal would be a legislative commitment that Pix will not be connected to non-Western cross-border clearing mechanisms”

In Portuguese: O sinal decisivo seria um compromisso legislativo de que o Pix não será interconectado a mecanismos de compensação transfronteiriça não ocidentais

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Keeping Brazil's payment system out of networks built by Beijing and Moscow sides with the United States against them.

Speaking to foreign ambassadors, with Russian and Ukrainian diplomats in the room, he said Brazil's position on the war in Ukraine would always be to seek neutrality.

“Brazil's position will always be to seek neutrality, to try to mediate any possible peace agreement”

In Portuguese: A posição do Brasil vai ser sempre de buscar a neutralidade, para tentar intermediar qualquer possível acordo de paz

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Against liberty

Neutrality between Kyiv and Moscow counts as against liberty, whoever says it.

Asked about China during the campaign, he said Brazil does not have to choose a side and should work with every country that wants to invest and transfer technology.

“We do not have to choose a side, we have to stand with every nation that is pro-development, that wants to invest in our Brazil, that wants to bring technology, transfer technology here to Brazil”

In Portuguese: A gente não tem que escolher um lado, a gente tem que estar junto com todas as nações que sejam desenvolvimentistas, que queiram investir no nosso Brasil, que queiram trazer tecnologia, transferir tecnologia aqui para o Brasil

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Not clear either way

Declining to choose a side neither stands against Beijing nor excuses it, so the line does not settle the measure.

He is one of the senators who signed the proposed constitutional amendment that sets a minimum budget for the Ministry of Defence, which the Senate news service describes as at least 2% of GDP a year.

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A guaranteed floor of 2% of GDP for defence funds the armed forces and meets the spending target.

In a campaign video he said one of his first acts as president would be to decree that Brazil belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ.

“I want to debate someone who does not believe in God, because when I am president one of my first acts will be to decree that Brazil belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ”

In Portuguese: Eu quero debater com quem não acredita em Deus, porque, quando eu for presidente, um dos meus primeiros atos será decretar que o Brasil é do Senhor Jesus Cristo

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A presidential decree declaring the country the property of one faith puts a religion into an act of government.

A month later his campaign said the promise meant a prayer before he signs the oath of office, a symbolic act, and that he respects every religion.

“he will say a prayer before reading the oath of office when he takes up the Presidency of the Republic, handing Brazil to Jesus Christ, in a symbolic act of thanks and also as a request for protection and blessing for all Brazilians”

In Portuguese: fará uma oração antes de ler o termo de posse quando assumir a Presidência da República entregando o Brasil a Jesus Cristo, numa ação simbólica de agradecimento e também como um pedido de proteção e benção para todos os brasileiros

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A prayer at an inauguration is not a law or a decree, so the clarification does not settle the measure either way.

In a radio interview he said the state postal company must be privatised first and other inefficient state companies after it.

“The Post Office has to be privatised, to begin with. Everyone agrees it is inefficient and cannot invest, and we have to move on to privatising other companies that are still inefficient too”

In Portuguese: Os Correios têm que ser privatizados, para começar. É uma unanimidade sua ineficiência e a falta de capacidade de investimento, e temos que partir para a privatização de outras empresas também que continuam ineficientes

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Privatisation counts as with liberty.

His programme for government, filed with the election court, promises a deep cut in spending across the state and lower taxes on producers.

“Our banner is a great scissor cut: a deep cut on every side that slims the machine, puts the accounts in order and reduces the taxes that weigh on those who produce”

In Portuguese: Nossa bandeira é um grande tesouraço: um corte profundo e por todos os lados, que enxuga a máquina, coloca as contas em ordem e reduz os impostos que pesam sobre quem produz

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Lower taxes and less state spending counts as with liberty.

His lawyers filed a police complaint against the two presenters of TV Globo's main news programme after it showed documents from the investigation into his former state assembly office. A judge closed the inquiry, citing freedom of the press.

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Against liberty

Using the police against journalists over a broadcast is asking the state to act against lawful reporting, which counts as against liberty.

He posted that President Lula had called in a Chinese official who specialises in censorship to do to Brazil's social networks what is done to China's, and that Congress had already decided there can be no censorship.

“Lula called in a Chinese official, a specialist in censorship, to try to do to Brazil's social networks what they do to China's”

In Portuguese: Lula convocou uma autoridade chinesa, especializada em censura, para tentar fazer nas redes sociais do Brasil o mesmo que fazem nas da China

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Opposing new state controls on what may be said on social networks counts as with liberty.

When the Senate renewed the university quota law he proposed an amendment to keep quotas only for low-income students, ending those by race, and said quotas by skin colour create an apartheid between poor students from the same neighbourhood and school. The amendment was rejected.

“What is being questioned is that we cannot create an apartheid for those people who do not have black skin or do not have a disability and who sometimes live in the same favela and studied in the same public school; and one has a greater chance of getting in, and the other does not.”

In Portuguese: O que se está questionando é que a gente não pode criar um apartheid para aquelas pessoas que não têm a pele negra ou não possuem uma deficiência e que, às vezes, moram na mesma favela, estudaram na mesma escola pública; e um tem a possibilidade de acesso aumentada, e o outro não.

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Opposing quotas by race counts as with liberty.

His programme for government says women's sport, from youth level to elite level, will be reserved for athletes of the female sex.

“We will make sure that the women's category, from grassroots to high performance, is contested by athletes of the female sex”

In Portuguese: Vamos assegurar que a categoria feminina, da base ao alto rendimento, seja disputada por atletas do sexo feminino

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Keeping women's sport for the female sex is against gender ideology in sport.