Cristina Bolsonaro

Lawyer, mother of Jair Renan Bolsonaro. She lived in a common-law marriage with Jair Bolsonaro from 1997 to 2008, according to O Globo; Estado de Minas calls her his "second wife" and places the end of the relationship in 2009. She worked in the office of city councilman Carlos Bolsonaro at the Rio de Janeiro City Council from 2001 to 2008, according to the press, and was later an adviser at the Resende city council and a parliamentary adviser to federal deputy Celina Leão (PP-DF). She ran for federal deputy in Rio in 2018 (Podemos) and for district deputy in 2022 (PP), under the ballot name "Cristina Bolsonaro", and finished as an alternate in both. She is one of the people whose involvement is being looked into in the MPRJ investigation of Carlos's office; no charges against her have been found.

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