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'''Mário de Melo Kertész''' (March 21, 1944) is a ] ], ], ], ] and broadcaster, the son of ], a ] father and an ] mother.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Macedo |first=Luciane |date=September 24, 2020 |title=“Sou branco e judeu, mas baiano pra cacete”, diz Kertész |url=https://www.brasil247.com/poder/sou-branco-e-judeu-mas-baiano-pra-cacete-diz-kertesz |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929204420/https://www.brasil247.com/poder/sou-branco-e-judeu-mas-baiano-pra-cacete-diz-kertesz |archive-date=September 29, 2020 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Brasil 247 |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Köpp |first=Juliana |last2=Albinati |first2=Mariana |title=Políticas culturais de salvador na gestão Mário Kertész (1986 a 1989) - versão preliminar |url=http://www.cult.ufba.br/arquivos/cult_polcult_86_89.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726123152/http://www.cult.ufba.br/arquivos/cult_polcult_86_89.pdf |archive-date=July 26, 2024 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sales |first=Edvaldo |date=September 12, 2023 |title=Mário Kertész solta o verbo contra ACM: “Fez todas as sacanagens que podia comigo” |url=https://www.bnews.com.br/noticias/politica/mario-kertesz-solta-o-verbo-contra-acm-fez-todas-as-sacanagens-que-podia-comigo.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240620033510/https://www.bnews.com.br/noticias/politica/mario-kertesz-solta-o-verbo-contra-acm-fez-todas-as-sacanagens-que-podia-comigo.html |archive-date=June 20, 2024 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Bnews |language=pt-br}}</ref>
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'''Gustavo Gayer Machado de Araújo''' (April 13, 1981) is a ] ], ], ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gustavo Gayer |url=https://diariodorio.com/eleicoes2020/goias/goiania/candidato/prefeito/gustavo-gayer-27/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209014629/https://diariodorio.com/eleicoes2020/goias/goiania/candidato/prefeito/gustavo-gayer-27/ |archive-date=February 9, 2022 |access-date=February 9, 2022 |website=Diário do Rio}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Eleições 2022: Gustavo Gayer - PL {{!}} Ficha do candidato {{!}} Folha |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/eleicoes/candidatos/2022/go/deputado-federal/gustavo-gayer-90001652508.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106142716/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/eleicoes/candidatos/2022/go/deputado-federal/gustavo-gayer-90001652508.shtml |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=August 27, 2021 |title=Gustavo Gayer terá encontro com o presidente Jair Bolsonaro em Goiânia |url=https://diariodegoias.com.br/gustavo-gayer-tera-encontro-com-o-presidente-jair-bolsonaro-em-goiania/196423/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130164227/https://diariodegoias.com.br/gustavo-gayer-tera-encontro-com-o-presidente-jair-bolsonaro-em-goiania/196423/ |archive-date=November 30, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Diário de Goiás |language=pt-BR}}</ref> He became better known in 2020 due to the rise of ] and the ] on social media, aligning himself with then-president ].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Petrarca |first=Fernanda Rios |last2=Ferreira de Oliveira |first2=Wilson José |date=2022-03-25 |title=Jalecos Brancos e o “Dragão Covidiano”: as alianças em torno do tratamento precoce |url=http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/ciencias_sociais/article/view/23164 |url-status=live |journal=Ciências Sociais Unisinos |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=324–336 |doi=10.4013/csu.2021.57.3.06 |issn=2177-6229 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230624113236/https://doi.org/10.4013/csu.2021.57.3.06 |archive-date=June 24, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Elliott |first=Vittoria |title=Elon Musk Is Platforming Far-Right Activists in Brazil, Defying Court Order |url=https://www.wired.com/story/brazil-court-elon-musk-far-right/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241212071233/https://www.wired.com/story/brazil-court-elon-musk-far-right/ |archive-date=December 12, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |work=] |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}</ref> He is considered one of the most controversial politicians in ] state and one of the main Bolsonaro supporters in the state. He was named by the ] as one of the YouTubers who profited most from spreading ] ].<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Silva |first=José |date=January 25, 2022 |title=Carla Zambelli usa verba pública em viagem, é pega na mentira e se irrita {{!}} Maquiavel |url=https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/maquiavel/carla-zambelli-usa-verba-publica-em-viagem-e-pega-na-mentira-e-se-irrita/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131083019/https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/maquiavel/carla-zambelli-usa-verba-publica-em-viagem-e-pega-na-mentira-e-se-irrita/ |archive-date=January 31, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref> In 2022, he was elected federal deputy for Goiás with the second highest vote in the state.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 2, 2022 |title=Goiás: Gustavo Gayer (PL) é eleito deputado federal; veja votos |url=https://noticias.uol.com.br/eleicoes/2022/10/02/gustavo-gayer-deputado-federal.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023180123/https://noticias.uol.com.br/eleicoes/2022/10/02/gustavo-gayer-deputado-federal.htm |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ozawa |first=João |date=2024 |title=One step to overturn a democracy : the role of far-right media in fostering citizens’ extremism in Brazil |url=https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/32408ec4-763e-47ee-a3b6-73b2662ae229/content |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106203228/https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/32408ec4-763e-47ee-a3b6-73b2662ae229/content |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=]}}</ref>

Congressman Gustavo Gayer is facing calls for his impeachment and possible imprisonment due to controversial statements associating the existence of dictatorships on the ] continent with the supposed “lack of cognitive capacity” of the population.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Marzullo |first=Luísa |date=February 28, 2024 |title=STF intima Gustavo Gayer por racismo contra Silvio Almeida e injúria em fala sobre Lula |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/noticia/2024/02/28/stf-intima-gustavo-gayer-por-racismo-contra-silvio-almeida-e-injuria-em-fala-sobre-lula.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906225525/https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/noticia/2024/02/28/stf-intima-gustavo-gayer-por-racismo-contra-silvio-almeida-e-injuria-em-fala-sobre-lula.ghtml |archive-date=September 6, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> In a podcast, Gayer compared the ] in Africa to that of monkeys, claiming that Brazil is following the same path.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 5, 2023 |title=Investigado, Gayer nega racismo e culpa imprensa: 'Interpretação desonesta' |url=https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ultimas-noticias/2023/07/05/gustavo-gayer-sobre-falas-racistas-podcast.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718045340/https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ultimas-noticias/2023/07/05/gustavo-gayer-sobre-falas-racistas-podcast.htm |archive-date=July 18, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> In addition, he is accused of insulting President ] and of racism by linking Minister ] 's African descent to a supposed intellectual inferiority, resulting in accusations that seek to hold him responsible for disseminating racist and segregationist ideas.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Sousa |first=Gabriel |date=June 28, 2023 |title=Deputado diz que africanos e brasileiros são burros, e deve ser levado ao Conselho de Ética |url=https://www.estadao.com.br/politica/deputado-gustavo-gayer-africanos-brasileiros-burros-deve-ser-levado-conselho-etica-nprp/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317200841/https://www.estadao.com.br/politica/deputado-gustavo-gayer-africanos-brasileiros-burros-deve-ser-levado-conselho-etica-nprp/ |archive-date=March 17, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mendes |first=Lucas |date=November 20, 2023 |title=PGR denuncia deputado Gustavo Gayer por racismo contra Silvio Almeida e injúria contra Lula |url=https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/pgr-denuncia-deputado-gustavo-gayer-por-racismo-contra-silvio-almeida-e-injuria-contra-lula/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613151004/https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/pgr-denuncia-deputado-gustavo-gayer-por-racismo-contra-silvio-almeida-e-injuria-contra-lula/ |archive-date=June 13, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref>


== Biography == == Biography ==


=== Early years and education === === Early years ===
Gayer was born on April 13, 1981, in ], the capital of the state of Góias.<ref name=":0" /> He is the son of delegate, councilor of Goiania and state deputy, {{Interlanguage link|Maria da Conceição Gayer|pt|Maria da Conceição Gayer}}, who died in December 2006, who campaigned against the ] in the early 1980's.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Carvalho |first=Giselle Vanessa |date=March 8, 2022 |title=Apesar da fama de outsider, Gustavo Gayer tem linhagem política e à esquerda |url=https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/ultimas-noticias/apesar-da-fama-de-outsider-gustavo-gayer-tem-linhagem-politica-e-a-esquerda-384591/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420155854/https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/ultimas-noticias/apesar-da-fama-de-outsider-gustavo-gayer-tem-linhagem-politica-e-a-esquerda-384591/ |archive-date=April 20, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Jornal Opção |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=July 22, 2023 |title=Um antipolítico parente de políticos: entenda quem é Gustavo Gayer |url=https://congressoemfoco.uol.com.br/area/congresso-nacional/um-antipolitico-parente-de-politicos-entenda-quem-e-gustavo-gayer/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527163736/https://congressoemfoco.uol.com.br/area/congresso-nacional/um-antipolitico-parente-de-politicos-entenda-quem-e-gustavo-gayer/ |archive-date=May 27, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Congresso em Foco |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Filho |first=João |date=July 1, 2023 |title=Fala de Gustavo Gayer faria Hitler rir no inferno |url=https://www.intercept.com.br/2023/07/01/por-que-a-fala-de-gustavo-gayer-faria-hitler-rir-no-inferno/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524010815/https://www.intercept.com.br/2023/07/01/por-que-a-fala-de-gustavo-gayer-faria-hitler-rir-no-inferno/ |archive-date=May 24, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref> His great-grandfather, {{Interlanguage link|Plínio Gayer|pt|Plínio Gayer}}, was a federal deputy for Goiás in the 1950s and was member of ] party, ] (PSD).<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Viana |first=Luana |date=October 25, 2024 |title=Saiba quem é Gustavo Gayer, deputado goiano alvo de operação da PF |url=https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/saiba-quem-e-gustavo-gayer-deputado-goiano-alvo-de-operacao-da-pf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241027021132/https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/saiba-quem-e-gustavo-gayer-deputado-goiano-alvo-de-operacao-da-pf |archive-date=October 27, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sampaio |first=Cristiane |date=October 25, 2024 |title=Saiba quem é Gustavo Gayer, deputado federal alvo de operação da PF nesta sexta-feira (25) |url=https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2024/10/25/saiba-quem-e-gustavo-gayer-deputado-federal-alvo-de-operacao-da-pf-nesta-sexta-feira-25 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106151901/https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2024/10/25/saiba-quem-e-gustavo-gayer-deputado-federal-alvo-de-operacao-da-pf-nesta-sexta-feira-25 |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref> He is the brother-in-law of {{Interlanguage link|Luana Ribeiro|pt|Luana Ribeiro}}, a state deputy from ], who was a member of the ] (PCdoB).<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Luana Ribeiro |url=https://pcdob.org.br/candidaturas/luana-ribeiro/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522011852/https://pcdob.org.br/candidaturas/luana-ribeiro/ |archive-date=May 22, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref> In an interview with the Goiás newspaper ''Diário do Estado'' in October 2020, she said that her father abandoned her mother when she was still pregnant, and she was raised by an ] brother who was ten years older.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |date=October 1, 2020 |title=Vídeo: Gustavo Gayer do DC, se eleito pretende apoiar homossexuais na prefeitura de Goiânia |url=https://diariodoestadogo.com.br/video-gustavo-gayer-do-dc-se-eleito-pretende-apoiar-homossexuais-na-prefeitura-de-goiania-76378/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228213322/https://diariodoestadogo.com.br/video-gustavo-gayer-do-dc-se-eleito-pretende-apoiar-homossexuais-na-prefeitura-de-goiania-76378/ |archive-date=February 28, 2023 |access-date=February 28, 2023 |website=Diário do Estado}}</ref>
Born in ], the capital of the state of ], Mário Kertész is the son of an ] mother and a ] father of ] origin.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=June 1, 2024 |title="Governo Lula melhorou muitas coisas, mas o Brasil segue dividido", diz Mário Kertész |url=https://www.brasil247.com/midia/governo-lula-melhorou-muitas-coisas-mas-o-brasil-segue-dividido-diz-mario-kertesz |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240602001741/https://www.brasil247.com/midia/governo-lula-melhorou-muitas-coisas-mas-o-brasil-segue-dividido-diz-mario-kertesz |archive-date=June 2, 2024 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Brasil 247 |language=pt-br}}</ref> Mário became a polyglot, speaking ], ], ], ] and ].<ref name=":0" />

=== Career ===
He is the owner of a language school with a focus on ], and works as a teacher at the school, despite not having higher education, as well as being a digital activist and political commentator.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gustavo Gayer |url=https://portalpolitica.com.br/deputados-federais/gustavo-gayer/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106150930/https://portalpolitica.com.br/deputados-federais/gustavo-gayer/ |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Portal Política |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=GUSTAVO GAYER MACHADO DE ARAUJO |url=https://divulgacandcontas.tse.jus.br/divulga/#/candidato/CENTROOESTE/GO/2040602022/90001652508/2022/GO |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=en}}</ref> He is a ] and ].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Oliveira |first=Rafael |date=September 15, 2020 |title=Partido Democracia Cristã oficializa o empresário Gustavo Gayer como candidato à Prefeitura de Goiânia |url=https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/eleicoes/2020/noticia/2020/09/15/partido-democracia-crista-oficializa-o-empresario-gustavo-gayer-como-candidato-a-prefeitura-de-goiania.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129165055/https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/eleicoes/2020/noticia/2020/09/15/partido-democracia-crista-oficializa-o-empresario-gustavo-gayer-como-candidato-a-prefeitura-de-goiania.ghtml |archive-date=November 29, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref>

He became known for his strong engagement with ] social networks.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dias |first=Elder |date=July 12, 2024 |title=Gustavo Gayer é o 2º entre youtubers que lucraram com fake news sobre pandemia, revela Google |url=https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/ultimas-noticias/gustavo-gayer-e-2-entre-youtubers-que-lucraram-com-fake-news-sobre-pandemia-revela-google-334625/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716082425/https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/ultimas-noticias/gustavo-gayer-e-2-entre-youtubers-que-lucraram-com-fake-news-sobre-pandemia-revela-google-334625/ |archive-date=July 16, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Jornal Opção |language=pt-BR}}</ref> He has a ] channel where he claims to “spread the truth and prevent more young people from falling into the ideological dungeon of the ]”. As of September 2020, his channel had 290 000 subscribers and videos with 1 million views.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=September 4, 2020 |title=Gustavo Gayer (DC), a novidade para a eleição goianiense |url=https://jornalhoraextra.com.br/entrevista/gustavo-gayer-dc-a-novidade-para-as-eleicoes-goianienses/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101092645/https://jornalhoraextra.com.br/entrevista/gustavo-gayer-dc-a-novidade-para-as-eleicoes-goianienses/ |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |access-date=November 1, 2020 |website=Hora Extra}}</ref>

In July 2021 his channel had 419 000 subscribers, having already reached 452 000 subscribers in August of the same year, by which time he was already well identified as a disseminator of fake news.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=July 7, 2021 |title=Vídeo de Gustavo Gayer engana ao mostrar parcial de enquete com intenção de voto para presidente |url=https://www.jornaldotocantins.com.br/editorias/politica/v%C3%ADdeo-de-gustavo-gayer-engana-ao-mostrar-parcial-de-enquete-com-inten%C3%A7%C3%A3o-de-voto-para-presidente-1.2280544 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129165057/https://www.jornaldotocantins.com.br/editorias/politica/v%C3%ADdeo-de-gustavo-gayer-engana-ao-mostrar-parcial-de-enquete-com-inten%C3%A7%C3%A3o-de-voto-para-presidente-1.2280544 |archive-date=November 29, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Jornal do Tocantins |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Simionato |first=Letícia |date=August 6, 2021 |title=Voto impresso, a roupa nova da desinformação |url=https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/voto-impresso-roupa-nova-da-desinformacao/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219164235/https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/voto-impresso-roupa-nova-da-desinformacao/ |archive-date=February 19, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=revista ] - _pra quem tem um clique a mais}}</ref> In January 2025, the channel had 1 840 000 subscribers and more than 115 million views.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gustavo Gayer Deputado Federal's YouTube Stats |url=https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/gustavogayer |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/mjeAB |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Social Blade Stats}}</ref> He is a regular commentator on the online political analysis program ''Hora do Strike'', broadcast by the Paraná newspaper '']''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 7, 2022 |title=Terceira temporada do Hora do Strike estreia nesta segunda-feira na Gazeta do Povo |url=https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vida-e-cidadania/terceira-temporada-do-hora-do-strike-estreia-nesta-segunda-feira-na-gazeta-do-povo/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229050227/https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vida-e-cidadania/terceira-temporada-do-hora-do-strike-estreia-nesta-segunda-feira-na-gazeta-do-povo/ |archive-date=February 29, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

== Political ==
Gayer says he became interested in politics in 2015, “outraged at the way Brazil was going”. He began to take part in the demonstrations for ], then for ], and all the demonstrations in support of ].<ref name=":2" />

He entered politics in 2020, building his space in the political field as one of Bolsonaro's biggest supporters.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sampaio |first=Cristiane |date=September 30, 2020 |title=Goiânia: em disputa fragmentada, 16 candidatos buscam cargo de prefeito na capital |url=https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2020/09/30/goiania-em-disputa-fragmentada-16-candidatos-buscam-cargo-de-prefeito-na-capital |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808014937/https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2020/09/30/goiania-em-disputa-fragmentada-16-candidatos-buscam-cargo-de-prefeito-na-capital |archive-date=August 8, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hirose |first=Rodrigo |date=March 8, 2020 |title=Quem é e o que pensa a direita em Goiás |url=https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/reportagens/quem-e-e-o-que-pensa-a-direita-em-goias-239928/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125204845/https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/reportagens/quem-e-e-o-que-pensa-a-direita-em-goias-239928/ |archive-date=January 25, 2022 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Jornal Opção |language=pt-BR}}</ref> He joined ] (DC), to run for {{Interlanguage link|2020 Goiânia mayoral election |pt|Eleição municipal de Goiânia em 2020|lt=mayor of Goiania in 2020}}.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 11, 2020 |title=Eleições 2020: conheça os candidatos à prefeitura de Goiânia |url=https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/eleicoes-2020/noticia/2020-11/eleicoes-2020-conheca-os-candidatos-prefeitura-de-goiania-go |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404072712/https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/eleicoes-2020/noticia/2020-11/eleicoes-2020-conheca-os-candidatos-prefeitura-de-goiania-go |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> In September 2020, his candidacy was made official by the party to run for mayor.<ref name=":4" /> According to Gayer, his motivation for entering politics was dissatisfaction at seeing “opportunists”, as he described the then São Paulo senator ] and the São Paulo federal deputies ] and ], seeking to attract votes from Bolsonaro voters.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Humberto |first=Thiago |date=September 22, 2020 |title=Goiânia: "Pessoas oportunistas estavam tentando ganhar votos de bolsonaristas", diz Gayer |url=https://diariodegoias.com.br/goiania-pessoas-oportunistas-estavam-tentando-ganhar-votos-de-bolsonaristas-diz-gayer/168075/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129172056/https://diariodegoias.com.br/goiania-pessoas-oportunistas-estavam-tentando-ganhar-votos-de-bolsonaristas-diz-gayer/ |archive-date=November 29, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Diário de Goiás |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

On October 21, 2020, his candidacy was rejected by electoral judge Wilson da Silva Dias, due to the absence of first-degree criminal certificates from the State and Federal Courts for the deputy mayor, Alexandre Magalhães, and therefore not being able to register.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Araújo |first=Augusto |date=October 22, 2020 |title=Gustavo Gayer tem candidatura indeferida por juiz eleitoral |url=https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/ultimas-noticias/gustavo-gayer-tem-candidatura-indeferida-por-juiz-eleitoral-290935/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024174636/https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/ultimas-noticias/gustavo-gayer-tem-candidatura-indeferida-por-juiz-eleitoral-290935/ |archive-date=October 24, 2020 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Jornal Opção |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=October 22, 2022 |title=Candidatura de Gustavo Gayer é indeferida por irregularidades na documentação do vice |url=https://radiobandeirantesgoiania.com.br/candidatura-de-gustavo-gayer-e-indeferida-por-irregularidades-na-documentacao-do-vice/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125043149/https://radiobandeirantesgoiania.com.br/candidatura-de-gustavo-gayer-e-indeferida-por-irregularidades-na-documentacao-do-vice/ |archive-date=November 25, 2020 |access-date=January 6, 2024 |website=Radio Bandeirantes Goiânia |language=pt-BR}}</ref> Despite the ruling, the case was reviewed after an appeal was filed with the electoral court and Gayer was allowed to run for mayor.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rocha |first=Douglas |date=October 22, 2020 |title=Candidatura indeferida de Gustavo Gayer pode ter reviravolta - O Hoje |url=https://ohoje.com/2020/10/22/candidatura-indeferida-de-gustavo-gayer-pode-ter-reviravolta/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106171338/https://ohoje.com/2020/10/22/candidatura-indeferida-de-gustavo-gayer-pode-ter-reviravolta/ |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=O Hoje |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Oliveira |first=Rafael |date=November 4, 2020 |title=Candidatos a prefeito de Goiânia dizem o que pretendem fazer para reduzir as desigualdades sociais |url=https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/eleicoes/2020/noticia/2020/11/04/candidatos-a-prefeito-de-goiania-dizem-o-que-pretendem-fazer-para-reduzir-as-desigualdades-sociais.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925212832/https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/eleicoes/2020/noticia/2020/11/04/candidatos-a-prefeito-de-goiania-dizem-o-que-pretendem-fazer-para-reduzir-as-desigualdades-sociais.ghtml |archive-date=September 25, 2022 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> He finished the election in fourth place, not advancing to the second round, and ahead of deputy {{Interlanguage link|Junio Alves Araújo|pt|Junio Alves Araújo |lt=Major Araújo}}, of the ] (PSL), a candidate officially supported by Bolsonaro.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Resultados da apuração para prefeito e vereadores do 1° turno - Goiânia - GO {{!}} Eleições 2020 {{!}} Folha |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/eleicoes/2020/apuracao/1turno/go/goiania/93734.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709062732/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/eleicoes/2020/apuracao/1turno/go/goiania/93734.shtml |archive-date=July 9, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 13, 2020 |title=PSL oficializa o policial militar Major Araújo como candidato à Prefeitura de Goiânia |url=https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2020/09/13/psl-oficializa-o-policial-militar-major-araujo-como-candidato-a-prefeitura-de-goiania.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210607154404/https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2020/09/13/psl-oficializa-o-policial-militar-major-araujo-como-candidato-a-prefeitura-de-goiania.ghtml |archive-date=June 7, 2021 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref>

As he became more prominent in the DC's Goiás chapter, he got closer to Bolsonaro, even arranging an official lunch the following year.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=August 29, 2021 |title=Gustavo Gayer almoça com Bolsonaro mas não fala em eleições 2022: "Tudo pode mudar", salienta |url=https://diariodegoias.com.br/gustavo-gayer-almoca-com-bolsonaro-mas-nao-fala-em-eleicoes-2022-tudo-pode-mudar/196588/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129165058/https://diariodegoias.com.br/gustavo-gayer-almoca-com-bolsonaro-mas-nao-fala-em-eleicoes-2022-tudo-pode-mudar/196588/ |archive-date=November 29, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Diário de Goiás |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=November 27, 2021 |title=Gustavo Gayer detona Gustavo Mendanha. Veja o vídeo |url=https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/ultimas-noticias/gustavo-gayer-detona-gustavo-mendanha-veja-o-video-354637/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927153812/https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/ultimas-noticias/gustavo-gayer-detona-gustavo-mendanha-veja-o-video-354637/ |archive-date=September 27, 2021 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Jornal Opção |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

Without holding public office, on January 19, 2022, he traveled with public money to the United States together with the federal deputy from São Paulo, ], and the senator from ], ], both from Bolsonaro's support base in Congress, in order to participate in the conservative March of Life, with anti-abortion agendas, in ], demanding tougher rules for women who try to have the procedure.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Andrade |first=Tainá |date=January 26, 2022 |title=Zambelli recua e admite uso de dinheiro público para viagem aos EUA |url=https://www.diariodepernambuco.com.br/noticia/politica/2022/01/zambelli-recua-e-admite-uso-de-dinheiro-publico-para-viagem-aos-eua.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127003700/https://www.diariodepernambuco.com.br/noticia/politica/2022/01/zambelli-recua-e-admite-uso-de-dinheiro-publico-para-viagem-aos-eua.html |archive-date=January 27, 2022 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> The three also attended a dinner at ]'s ], sponsored by the ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 19, 2022 |title=Carla Zambelli viaja aos EUA para marcha antiaborto com verba da Câmara |url=https://revistamarieclaire.globo.com/Feminismo/Politica/noticia/2022/01/carla-zambelli-viaja-aos-eua-para-marcha-antiaborto-com-verba-da-camara.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129165053/https://revistamarieclaire.globo.com/Feminismo/Politica/noticia/2022/01/carla-zambelli-viaja-aos-eua-para-marcha-antiaborto-com-verba-da-camara.html |archive-date=November 29, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=January 23, 2022 |title=Parlamentares vão aos EUA atuar em manifestação contra o aborto |url=https://congressoemfoco.uol.com.br/area/congresso-nacional/parlamentares-vao-aos-eua-atuar-em-manifestacao-contra-o-aborto/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240719145133/https://congressoemfoco.uol.com.br/area/congresso-nacional/parlamentares-vao-aos-eua-atuar-em-manifestacao-contra-o-aborto/ |archive-date=July 19, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Congresso em Foco |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

He left the DC and joined the ] (PL).<ref name=":0" /> In 2022, he was elected federal deputy for Goiás, receiving more than 200 000 votes and being the second most voted deputy in the {{Interlanguage link|2022 Goiás gubernatorial election|pt|Eleições estaduais em Goiás em 2022|lt=election}}, behind only of {{Interlanguage link|Silvye Alves|pt|Silvye Alves |lt=Silvye Alves}} (]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Deputados federais eleitos em Goiás: apuração e resultados das Eleições 2022 {{!}} Folha |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/eleicoes/2022/apuracao/1turno/go/deputado-federal.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106174231/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/eleicoes/2022/apuracao/1turno/go/deputado-federal.shtml |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref> In the ], Goiânia presented his pre-candidacy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bragon |first=Ranier |date=October 25, 2024 |title=Brasília Hoje: Gustavo Gayer comemora decisão da Justiça contra Caiado horas antes de sofrer busca da PF; assista |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/blogs/brasilia-hoje/2024/10/gustavo-gayer-comemora-decisao-da-justica-contra-caiado-horas-antes-de-sofrer-busca-da-pf-assista.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241112222939/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/blogs/brasilia-hoje/2024/10/gustavo-gayer-comemora-decisao-da-justica-contra-caiado-horas-antes-de-sofrer-busca-da-pf-assista.shtml |archive-date=November 12, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref> After being passed over by Bolsonaro, who chose {{Interlanguage link|Fred Rodrigues (Brazilian politician)|pt|Fred Rodrigues (político)|lt=Fred Rodrigues}} to support, and facing a ] (PF) action for embezzling public funds, he decided to leave the campaign.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sabóia |first=Gabriel |date=October 26, 2024 |title=Alvo de operação da PF, Gayer deixa campanha de candidato de Bolsonaro de lado em reta final de Goiânia |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/eleicoes-2024/noticia/2024/10/26/alvo-de-operacao-da-pf-gayer-deixa-campanha-de-candidato-de-bolsonaro-de-lado-em-reta-final-de-goiania.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106175715/https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/eleicoes-2024/noticia/2024/10/26/alvo-de-operacao-da-pf-gayer-deixa-campanha-de-candidato-de-bolsonaro-de-lado-em-reta-final-de-goiania.ghtml |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Martins |first=Vinícius |date=July 19, 2024 |title=Reviravolta: Gustavo Gayer retira pré-candidatura e Bolsonaro lança Fred Rodrigues para prefeito de Goiânia |url=https://revistafactual.com.br/politica/2024/06/19/reviravolta-gustavo-gayer-retira-pre-candidatura-e-bolsonaro-lanca-fred-rodrigues-para-prefeito-de-goiania/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240619193012/https://revistafactual.com.br/politica/2024/06/19/reviravolta-gustavo-gayer-retira-pre-candidatura-e-bolsonaro-lanca-fred-rodrigues-para-prefeito-de-goiania/ |archive-date=June 19, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Revista Factual |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=June 19, 2024 |title=Bolsonaro pede que Gayer desista de prefeitura e continue deputado |url=https://www.poder360.com.br/eleicoes/bolsonaro-pede-que-gayer-desista-de-prefeitura-e-continue-deputado/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621224350/https://www.poder360.com.br/eleicoes/bolsonaro-pede-que-gayer-desista-de-prefeitura-e-continue-deputado/ |archive-date=June 21, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Poder360 |language=pt-br}}</ref>

=== Electoral historical ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Election
!Office
!Party
!Votes
!Result
!Ref.
|-
|2020
|{{Interlanguage link|2020 Goiânia mayoral election |pt|Eleição municipal de Goiânia em 2020|lt=Goiânia mayoral election}}
|Mayor
|]
|45 928
|{{No2|Not elected}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Resultado das Eleições e Apuração Goiânia-GO no 2º Turno {{!}} G1 Eleições |url=https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/eleicoes/2020/resultado-das-apuracoes/goiania.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527235228/https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/eleicoes/2020/resultado-das-apuracoes/goiania.ghtml |archive-date=May 27, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref>
|-
|2022
|{{Interlanguage link|2022 Goiás gubernatorial election|pt|Eleições estaduais em Goiás em 2022|lt=Goiânia gubernatorial election}}
|Federal deputy
|]
|200 586
|{{Yes2|Elected}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 2, 2022 |title=Veja quem são os 17 deputados federais eleitos por Goiás {{!}} Eleições 2022 em Goiás |url=https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/eleicoes/2022/noticia/2022/10/02/veja-quem-sao-os-17-deputados-federais-eleitos-por-goias.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204200105/https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/eleicoes/2022/noticia/2022/10/02/veja-quem-sao-os-17-deputados-federais-eleitos-por-goias.ghtml |archive-date=February 4, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref>
|}

== Controversies ==

=== Fake News ===

==== Ridicule of nursing ====
At the beginning of May 2020, Gayer went to a nurses ' protest on the ] in ], paying a tribute to colleagues who had died after contracting ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 13, 2020 |title=Enfermagem realiza ato histórico em homenagem aos mortos pela COVID-19 {{!}} Cofen |url=https://www.cofen.gov.br/enfermagem-realiza-ato-historico-em-homenagem-aos-mortos-pela-covid-19/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527073414/https://www.cofen.gov.br/enfermagem-realiza-ato-historico-em-homenagem-aos-mortos-pela-covid-19/ |archive-date=May 27, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Conselho Federal de Enfermagem |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=May 5, 2020 |title=Goiano é suspeito de agredir enfermeira durante homenagem para vítimas de Covid-19 |url=https://www.dm.com.br/cotidiano/2020/05/goiano-e-suspeito-de-agredir-enfermeira-durante-homenagem-para-vitimas-de-covid-19 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220911220612/https://www.dm.com.br/cotidiano/2020/05/goiano-e-suspeito-de-agredir-enfermeira-durante-homenagem-para-vitimas-de-covid-19/ |archive-date=September 11, 2022 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Diário da Manhã |language=pt-br}}</ref> Gayer spread the word on social media that the act was fake, organized by people pretending to be health professionals.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Santana |first=Vitor |date=May 6, 2020 |title=Empresário goiano diz que criticou em vídeo protesto de enfermeiros no DF por achar que manifestação era falsa |url=https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2020/05/06/empresario-goiano-diz-que-fez-video-criticando-protesto-de-enfermeiros-no-df-por-achar-que-manifestacao-era-falsa.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129165053/https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2020/05/06/empresario-goiano-diz-que-fez-video-criticando-protesto-de-enfermeiros-no-df-por-achar-que-manifestacao-era-falsa.ghtml |archive-date=November 29, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> At the same demonstration, several nurses were attacked by Bolsonaro supporters. The Nursing Council of the Federal District (Coren-DF) identified three people who harassed the nurses at the demonstration, and filed a complaint with the ]'s Office against the aggressors, including Gayer.<ref name=":8" /> According to the council's complaint, Gayer's offenses were aimed at diminishing, belittling and ridiculing nursing as an institution and as a profession. Gayer's offenses were aimed at diminishing, belittling and ridiculing ] as an institution and as a profession.<ref name=":8" />

According to the list provided by Google to the Covid-19 CPI and published by the Rio de Janeiro newspaper ''O Globo'' in June 2021, Gayer's YouTube channel was the second most profitable with videos spreading fake news about the Covid-19 pandemic, before his videos were deleted for spreading disinformation.

==== Fake news ====
According to the list provided by ] to the ] and published by the ] newspaper ''O Globo'' in June 2021, Gayer's YouTube channel was the second most profitable with videos spreading fake news about the Covid-19 pandemic, before his videos were deleted for spreading disinformation.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |last=Portinari |first=Natália |date=June 12, 2021 |title=Canais na internet ganharam dinheiro com fake news sobre Covid, informa Google à CPI |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/canais-na-internet-ganharam-dinheiro-com-fake-news-sobre-covid-informa-google-cpi-25058339 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230624121921/https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/canais-na-internet-ganharam-dinheiro-com-fake-news-sobre-covid-informa-google-cpi-25058339 |archive-date=June 24, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref> Gayer earned almost 8,000 dollars, about 40,000 reais when converting the currency, corresponding to 56 videos disseminating disinformation, second only to journalist ]<nowiki/>s channel.<ref name=":9" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Araújo |first=Karla |date=June 15, 2021 |title=Gustavo Gayer é citado em relatório sobre fake news na CPI da Covid |url=https://opopular.com.br/politica/gustavo-gayer-%C3%A9-citado-em-relat%C3%B3rio-sobre-fake-news-na-cpi-da-covid-1.2267781 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222164755/https://opopular.com.br/noticias/politica/gustavo-gayer-%C3%A9-citado-em-relat%C3%B3rio-sobre-fake-news-na-cpi-da-covid-1.2267781 |archive-date=February 22, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=O Popular |language=pt-br}}</ref>

==== Anti-gender movement ====
In October 2020, in an interview with the newspaper ''Diário do Estado'', Gayer stated that, having been raised by a gay brother, he intended to support homosexuals if elected to the mayoralty. In his government plan, however, Gayer stated that he was against ].<ref name=":7" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=M Facebook – Especial Eleições n° 5 |url=https://manchetometro.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/relatorio_M_Eleicoes_Face_5.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716070642/https://manchetometro.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/relatorio_M_Eleicoes_Face_5.pdf |archive-date=July 16, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Manchetômetro |publisher=]}}</ref>

==== Comprova project ====
In July 2021, the {{Interlanguage link|Projeto Comprova|pt|Projeto Comprova|lt=Comprova project}}, a pool of investigative reports between several broadcasters, investigated and reported on the video after showing an excerpt from a program on {{Interlanguage link|TV Sucesso|pt|TV Sucesso|lt=TV Sucesso}}, a ] affiliate that broadcasts to 30 cities in the southwest of Goiás, the partial result of a poll, saying: “if we don't get an auditable vote with a public count, Lula will be put in the presidency, even though 87.5% of the population rejects Lula and approves of Bolsonaro”.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=June 7, 2024 |title=Vídeo de Gustavo Gayer engana ao mostrar parcial de enquete com intenção de voto para presidente |url=https://opopular.com.br/politica/v%C3%ADdeo-engana-ao-mostrar-resultado-parcial-de-enquete-com-inten%C3%A7%C3%A3o-de-voto-para-presidente-1.2280523 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106184345/https://opopular.com.br/politica/v%C3%ADdeo-engana-ao-mostrar-resultado-parcial-de-enquete-com-inten%C3%A7%C3%A3o-de-voto-para-presidente-1.2280523 |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=O Popular |language=pt-br}}</ref> The video has gone ], being viewed at least 286,600 times on YouTube and ]. The information disseminated is considered manipulated, false and misleading, contributing to the discrediting of the Brazilian electoral system. Not only did the poll have no scientific value, having been carried out on ] without any control of respondents, it hadn't even finished with the result transmitted by Gayer. The section showing 87.5% had been obtained in the first few minutes, still with few responses, gradually dropping to 64.9% for Bolsonaro and 33.1% for Lula. In addition, contrary to what Gayer said, referring to a 2019 proposal by federal deputy ], the vote has already been auditable through various mechanisms since at least 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Arreguy |first=Juliana |date=June 2, 2021 |title=Youtuber distorce enquete de TV para defender Bolsonaro e voto impresso |url=https://noticias.uol.com.br/confere/ultimas-noticias/2021/07/02/pesquisa-eleitoral-x-enquete-bolsonaro-afiliada-goias.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240415122017/https://noticias.uol.com.br/confere/ultimas-noticias/2021/07/02/pesquisa-eleitoral-x-enquete-bolsonaro-afiliada-goias.htm |archive-date=April 15, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 7, 2021 |title=Vídeo engana ao mostrar resultado parcial de enquete com intenção de voto para presidente |url=https://www.estadao.com.br/estadao-verifica/video-engana-ao-mostrar-resultado-parcial-de-enquete-com-intencao-de-voto-para-presidente/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240810154728/https://www.estadao.com.br/estadao-verifica/video-engana-ao-mostrar-resultado-parcial-de-enquete-com-intencao-de-voto-para-presidente/ |archive-date=August 10, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref>

==== Fake News about Barroso ====
In the same month, it misrepresented two statements by ], the ] (STF) minister and current president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), falsely leading people to believe that the magistrate had already been in favor of the printed ballot, but that he was against it.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pacheco |first=Priscila |date=June 13, 2021 |title=Youtuber distorce falas de Barroso ao alegar mudança de opinião sobre voto impresso |url=https://www.aosfatos.org/noticias/youtuber-distorce-falas-de-barroso-ao-alegar-mudanca-de-opiniao-sobre-voto-impresso/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230617154733/https://www.aosfatos.org/noticias/youtuber-distorce-falas-de-barroso-ao-alegar-mudanca-de-opiniao-sobre-voto-impresso/aosfatos.org/noticias/youtuber-distorce-falas-de-barroso-ao-alegar-mudanca-de-opiniao-sobre-voto-impresso/ |archive-date=June 17, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Aos Fatos}}</ref>

==== Fraud in the electronic ballot box ====
In August 2021, he published a video summarizing an interview in which Bolsonaro presents alleged evidence of fraud in the {{Interlanguage link|Electronic ballot box (Brazil)|pt|Urna eletrônica (Brasil) |lt=electonic ballot boxes}} based on a Federal Police investigation, claiming that, in the course of this investigation, the TSE would have admitted tampering with the software of the electronic ballot boxes in 2018, the year Bolsonaro was elected president. The video had been viewed more than 56 000 times on ]. The information propagated by Gayer was, however, false, and the TSE has never admitted to any tampering.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nomura |first=Bruno |date=December 8, 2023 |title=Relatório do TSE não admite adulteração do código-fonte das urnas eletrônicas |url=https://lupa.uol.com.br/jornalismo/2021/08/09/verificamos-tse-codigo-fonte/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208144947/https://lupa.uol.com.br/jornalismo/2021/08/09/verificamos-tse-codigo-fonte/ |archive-date=December 8, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Agência Lupa |publisher=]}}</ref>

==== Video drops ====
On August 16, 2021, the TSE ordered the suspension of reposts to social media channels that spread lies about the elections. 25 channels deleted videos, the largest number of which were deleted on Gayer's channel, a total of 59.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Xavier |first=Getulio |date=August 19, 2021 |title=Bolsonaristas apagam vídeos com ataques às urnas eletrônicas e a ministros do STF |url=https://www.cartacapital.com.br/cartaexpressa/bolsonaristas-apagam-videos-com-ataques-as-urnas-eletronicas-e-a-ministros-do-stf/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222193853/https://www.cartacapital.com.br/cartaexpressa/bolsonaristas-apagam-videos-com-ataques-as-urnas-eletronicas-e-a-ministros-do-stf/ |archive-date=February 22, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

==== Conviction for racist statements and insults ====
In June 2023, Gayer caused controversy by associating dictatorships in African countries with the supposed “lack of cognitive capacity” of the population, declaring that “Brazil is dumbed down” and following the path of ] nations. In a podcast, Gayer claimed that the ] in Africa is 72, comparing it to that of monkeys, and argued that democracy does not thrive in the region due to the alleged cognitive incapacity.<ref name=":6" />


These statements prompted a request for his removal from office for ] at the Chamber's Ethics Council, in addition to two other representations against him. Gayer also faces accusations of insulting President Lula and of racism when he associates the Afro-descendancy of the ], ], with the supposedly inferior intelligence quotient of African peoples.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=June 28, 2023 |title=Silvio Almeida diz que acionará Ministério da Justiça, PF, PGR e Câmara contra deputado acusado de racismo |url=https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/silvio-almeida-diz-que-acionara-ministerio-da-justica-pf-pgr-e-camara-contra-deputado-acusado-de-racismo/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240425120714/https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/silvio-almeida-diz-que-acionara-ministerio-da-justica-pf-pgr-e-camara-contra-deputado-acusado-de-racismo/ |archive-date=April 25, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQUOSmgzI7E |title=O É da Coisa de 28/06/23, com Reinaldo Azevedo: Racismo e punição; fim da linha para Bolsonaro |date=June 28, 2023 |last=Azevedo |first=Reinaldo |author-link=Reinaldo Azevedo |type=Radio broadcast |language=pt-br |publisher=] |access-date=January 6, 2025 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
He graduated in ] from the ] (UFBA).<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 3, 2016 |title=Próximos Eventos {{!}} Mário Kertész fala sobre Mídia na Escola de Administração |url=https://agenda.ufba.br/?tribe_events=mario-kertesz-fala-sobre-midia-na-escola-de-administracao |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224152823/https://agenda.ufba.br/?tribe_events=mario-kertesz-fala-sobre-midia-na-escola-de-administracao |archive-date=December 24, 2024 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Agenda UFBA}}</ref> He did postgraduate studies abroad, studying in ] and ].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Mário de Melo Kertész |url=https://www.academiaadmbahia.org/cadeira-8-m%C3%A1rio-de-melo-kert%C3%A9sz |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224154245/https://www.academiaadmbahia.org/cadeira-8-m%C3%A1rio-de-melo-kert%C3%A9sz |archive-date=December 24, 2024 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Academia Baiana de Administração}}</ref>


The Attorney General's Office (PGR) accuses Gayer of spreading racist and segregationist ideas, inferiorizing and dehumanizing blacks and Afro-descendants by comparing them to monkeys.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peron |first=Isadora |date=November 20, 2023 |title=PGR denuncia deputado Gustavo Gayer por injúria contra Lula e racismo |url=https://valor.globo.com/politica/noticia/2023/11/20/pgr-denuncia-deputado-gustavo-gayer-por-injuria-contra-lula-e-racismo.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201050404/https://valor.globo.com/politica/noticia/2023/11/20/pgr-denuncia-deputado-gustavo-gayer-por-injuria-contra-lula-e-racismo.ghtml |archive-date=December 1, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> The deputy attorney general claims that the speeches by Gayer and Rodrigo Barbosa Arantes, made on a podcast with around 14 000 views, incited discrimination and racial prejudice.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lopes |first=Léo |last2=Magalhães |first2=Thais |date=June 28, 2023 |title=Gustavo Gayer critica capacidade cognitiva de africanos; Duda Salabert pede cassação |url=https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/deputado-do-pl-e-acusado-de-fala-racista-em-podcast-e-deve-enfrentar-pedido-de-cassacao-de-mandato/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240228131843/https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/deputado-do-pl-e-acusado-de-fala-racista-em-podcast-e-deve-enfrentar-pedido-de-cassacao-de-mandato/ |archive-date=February 28, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
=== Political ===
He began his public life at the age of 22, as chief of staff to Finance Secretary Luís Sande, during the administration of the then mayor of Salvador, ], in 1967.<ref name=":2" />


=== '''Fights and lawsuits''' ===
During Antõnio Carlos Magalhães' first term as governor of Bahia, between 1971 and 1975, Kertész, at the age of 26, was the first head of the Secretariat of Planning, Science and Technology, the body responsible for setting up the {{Interlanguage link|Bahia Administrative Center|pt|Centro Administrativo da Bahia}}, the {{Interlanguage link|Pituaçu Metropolitan Park|lt=Pituaçu Metropolitan Park|pt|Parque Metropolitano de Pituaçu}} and the first stage of the renovation of ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gonzalez |first=Daniela |date=June 27, 2024 |title=Reserva de resistência: Há 50 anos enfrentando especulação imobiliária, Parque de Pituaçu vai passar por revitalização |url=https://www.metro1.com.br/noticias/jornal-da-metropole/152096,reserva-de-resistencia-ha-50-anos-enfrentando-especulacao-imobiliaria-parque-de-pituacu-vai-passar-por-revitalizacao |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240704231644/https://www.metro1.com.br/noticias/jornal-da-metropole/152096,reserva-de-resistencia-ha-50-anos-enfrentando-especulacao-imobiliaria-parque-de-pituacu-vai-passar-por-revitalizacao |archive-date=July 4, 2024 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Metro 1 |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=January 23, 1971 |title=Bahia já estabelece prioridade |url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=030015_09&pesq=%22M%C3%A1rio%20Kert%C3%A9sz%22&pasta=ano%20197&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=202824 |journal=] |volume=80 |issue=248 |pages=3}}</ref>


==== Clashes in the Liberal Party's Whatsapp group ====
He served as Magalhães' chief of staff when the politician took over the presidency of the state-owned company ] between 1975 and 1978.<ref name=":1" /> He was appointed mayor of Salvador by Magalhães, as a '{{Interlanguage link|Bionic office|lt=bionic mayor|pt|Cargo biônico }}' - the name given to mayors appointed by allies of the Brazilian military dictatorship - in his second administration.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mendes |first=Mariana |date=December 2, 2008 |title=Mário Kertész aguarda confiante a cirurgia |url=http://www.atarde.uol.com.br/bahia/salvador/noticias/1270927-mario-kertesz-aguarda-confiante-a-cirurgia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508055256/http://www.atarde.uol.com.br/bahia/salvador/noticias/1270927-mario-kertesz-aguarda-confiante-a-cirurgia |archive-date=May 8, 2018 |access-date=May 8, 2018 |website=]}}</ref> The main works and achievements of this first administration were the creation of Limpurb (Empresa de Limpeza Urbana de Salvador), responsible for the city's garbage collection, and Transur (Companhia de Transportes Urbanos de Salvador), all in 1979.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=December 21, 1979 |title=Bahia espera 250 mil turistas neste verão |url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=030015_09&Pesq=%22Transur%22&pagfis=170983 |journal=] |volume=89 |issue=257 |pages=18}}</ref> Transur was later abolished in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Transur |url=https://acervodoonibusnabahia.blogspot.com/p/transur.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204135337/https://acervodoonibusnabahia.blogspot.com/p/transur.html |archive-date=December 4, 2023 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Acervo do Ônibus na Bahia |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
After the vote on tax reform in 2022, in WhatsApp fights with his party colleague, {{Interlanguage link|Vinícius Gurgel|pt|Vinícius Gurgel|lt=Vinícius Gurgel}} (until then a member of the PL in ]), his murder trial was resurrected, and he was provoked with a recommendation to join ] (AA.).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pereira |first=Felipe |date=June 10, 2023 |title=Corrupção e homicídio: os bastidores do barraco no grupo do zap do PL |url=https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ultimas-noticias/2023/07/10/corrupcao-e-homicidio-os-bastidores-do-barraco-no-grupo-do-zap-do-pl.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718115925/https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ultimas-noticias/2023/07/10/corrupcao-e-homicidio-os-bastidores-do-barraco-no-grupo-do-zap-do-pl.htm |archive-date=July 18, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> “Take care of your cases and join AA. Stop driving drunk!” said the deputy from Amapá. Gustavo rebutted with: “There are no lawsuits, dear retard. But your case is quite different, isn't it?” in reference to Gurgel's {{Interlanguage link|National Department of Transportation Infrastructure (Brazil)|pt|Departamento Nacional de Infraestrutura de Transportes|lt=DNIT}} cases. “Your murder case hasn't been tried! It's time-barred! Could it be that you were at fault?” replied Gurgel.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ketelbey |first=Domingos |date=July 13, 2023 |title=Briga interna em grupo do PL no Whatsapp expõe supostos crimes cometidos por Gustavo Gayer |url=https://www.maisgoias.com.br/politica/briga-interna-em-grupo-do-pl-no-whatsapp-expoe-supostos-crimes-cometidos-por-gustavo-gayer/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627070052/https://www.maisgoias.com.br/politica/briga-interna-em-grupo-do-pl-no-whatsapp-expoe-supostos-crimes-cometidos-por-gustavo-gayer/ |archive-date=June 27, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Mais Goiás |language=pt-BR}}</ref>


==== Discussion with Sylvie Alves ====
At the end of his term as mayor of Salvador in 1981, Mário Kertész broke with “Carlism” (the name given to the political movement that emerged in Bahia under the leadership of Antonio Carlos Magalhães) and joined the ] (PMDB), making his then-wife, {{Interlanguage link|Eliana Kertész|pt|Eliana Kertész}}, the most voted ] in Salvador in 1982, receiving more than 50 000 votes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gonçalves |first=Roberto |date=November 19, 1982 |title=Mulher de Kertész bate recorde votos para a Câmara |url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=030015_10&pesq=%22Eliana%20Kert%C3%A9sz%22&pasta=ano%20198&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=84342 |journal=] |volume=92 |issue=225 |pages=7}}</ref>
In 2022, after the vote on the MP for the Ministries, Gayer accused Sylvie Alves (until then a member of parliament for UNIÃO) of having “sold out” to the Lula government on social media.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |last=Melo |first=Thauany |last2=Portella |first2=Ysabella |date=June 20, 2023 |title=Prints mostram ameaças nas redes sociais à deputada Silvye Alves após críticas a Gustavo Gayer: 'Merecia morrer' |url=https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2023/06/20/prints-mostram-ameacas-nas-redes-sociais-a-deputada-silvye-alves-apos-criticas-a-gustavo-gayer-merecia-morrer.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629140717/https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2023/06/20/prints-mostram-ameacas-nas-redes-sociais-a-deputada-silvye-alves-apos-criticas-a-gustavo-gayer-merecia-morrer.ghtml |archive-date=June 29, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> The MP replied: “For a man who has already killed two people in a drunken accident, he should be sensitive to some causes”, and added: “In fact, he left the third paralyzed and never paid any attention”, reinforcing the accusations the following day on Instagram.<ref name=":10" /> Gayer filed a lawsuit against Sylvie at the STF against the attacks.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kamenach |first=Júnior |date=June 2, 2023 |title=Silvye declara "guerra" a Gayer após polêmica |url=https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/politica/silvye-declara-guerra-a-gayer-apos-polemica-vou-leva-lo-ao-conselho-de-etica-496243/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607194555/https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/politica/silvye-declara-guerra-a-gayer-apos-polemica-vou-leva-lo-ao-conselho-de-etica-496243/ |archive-date=June 7, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Jornal Opção |language=pt-BR}}</ref> The Supreme Court dismissed the complaint sent by Gayer.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Silva |first=Marilia Costa e |date=September 11, 2024 |title=STF rejeita queixa-crime apresentada por Gustavo Gayer contra deputada federal Silvye Alves |url=https://www.rotajuridica.com.br/stf-rejeita-queixa-crime-apresentada-por-gustavo-gayer-contra-deputada-federal-silvye-alves/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106192015/https://www.rotajuridica.com.br/stf-rejeita-queixa-crime-apresentada-por-gustavo-gayer-contra-deputada-federal-silvye-alves/ |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Rota Jurídica |language=pt-BR}}</ref>


==== Dismissal of a teacher ====
After the opening of direct elections to the mayors of the capitals with the end of the Military Dictatorship in {{Interlanguage link|1985 Mayor election in Salvador|lt=1985|pt|Eleições municipais em Salvador em 1985 }}, he defeated federal deputy Marcelo Cordeiro at the party convention, becoming a candidate for mayor of Salvador.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=July 8, 1985 |title=Leite vence as convenções do PMDB no Rio |url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=030015_10&pesq=%22Marcelo%20Cordeiro%22&pasta=ano%20198&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=148273 |journal=] |volume=95 |issue=91 |pages=1}}</ref> On November 15 of the same year, he was elected the first mayor of Salvador by popular vote, beating {{Interlanguage link|Edvaldo Brito|pt|Edvaldo Brito }}, with the support of the ] parties like ] (PDT) and ] (PSB), after 21 years of military rule.<ref>{{Citation |last=Luiz Pereira Oliveira |first=Cloves |title=The New Bahia Enigma: Why Has Black Rome Never Elected a Black Mayor? A Case Study of the 1985 Municipal Election Campaigns of Edivaldo Brito and Mário Kertész |date=2024 |work=Black Lives Matter in Latin America |pages=173–203 |editor-last=Luiz Pereira Oliveira |editor-first=Cloves |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-39904-6_7 |access-date=2024-12-24 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer Nature Switzerland |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-39904-6_7 |isbn=978-3-031-39903-9 |editor2-last=Mitchell-Walthour |editor2-first=Gladys Lanier |editor3-last=Morrison |editor3-first=Minion K. C}}</ref>
In 2023, a history and art teacher at a school in Aparecida de Goiânia, in the interior of Goiás, was fired after federal deputy Gustavo Gayer (PL) criticized her on social media for wearing a T-shirt with the expression ], in reference to the work of artist ], whose work is the subject of entrance exam questions.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Macêdo |first=Gabriela |last2=Cruz |first2=Gustavo |date=May 6, 2023 |title=Professora é demitida após deputado criticá-la por usar camiseta com frase de Hélio Oiticica: 'Seja marginal, seja herói' |url=https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2023/05/06/professora-e-demitida-apos-deputado-critica-la-por-usar-camiseta-com-frase-de-artista-plastico-renomado-seja-marginal-seja-heroi.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241128190014/https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2023/05/06/professora-e-demitida-apos-deputado-critica-la-por-usar-camiseta-com-frase-de-artista-plastico-renomado-seja-marginal-seja-heroi.ghtml |archive-date=November 28, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> Gayer published the image of the teacher with the caption “History teacher with a ] look in the classroom”.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web |last=Sobrinho |first=Augusto |date=May 8, 2023 |title=Professora que foi demitida após deputado criticá-la por usar camiseta com frase 'seja marginal, seja herói' diz que está recebendo apoio de colegas e alunos |url=https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2023/05/08/professora-que-foi-demitida-apos-deputado-critica-la-por-usar-camiseta-com-frase-seja-marginal-seja-heroi-diz-que-esta-recebendo-apoio-de-colegas-e-alunos.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240818152412/https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2023/05/08/professora-que-foi-demitida-apos-deputado-critica-la-por-usar-camiseta-com-frase-seja-marginal-seja-heroi-diz-que-esta-recebendo-apoio-de-colegas-e-alunos.ghtml |archive-date=August 18, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> The teacher received support from the school community, said that the T-shirt had no political association and declared that the MP had attacked all education professionals.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 20, 2023 |title=Seja marginal e heroína. Seja demitida - Revista Focus Brasil {{!}} Revista Focus Brasil |url=https://fpabramo.org.br/focusbrasil/2023/05/20/seja-marginal-e-heroina-seja-demitida/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528204117/https://fpabramo.org.br/focusbrasil/2023/05/20/seja-marginal-e-heroina-seja-demitida/ |archive-date=May 28, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Fundação Perseu Abramo |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=May 12, 2023 |title=Demissão de professora por vestir camiseta com poema "Seja Marginal, Seja Herói" gera indignação |url=https://midianinja.org/demissao-de-professora-por-vestir-camiseta-com-poema-seja-marginal-seja-heroi-gera-indignacao/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106193442/https://midianinja.org/demissao-de-professora-por-vestir-camiseta-com-poema-seja-marginal-seja-heroi-gera-indignacao/ |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Mídia Ninja |language=pt-br}}</ref> The Goiás State Teachers' Union (Sinpro Goiás) repudiated the congressman's attitude and said it would file a lawsuit against the congressman to delete social networks that spread hate and fake news.<ref name=":11" />


==== Suit for moral damages after exposure of telephone number ====
During his second term, he helped to elect ] governor of Bahia in {{Interlanguage link|1986 Bahia gubernatorial election|pt|Eleições estaduais na Bahia em 1986|lt=1986}}, with the support of other 'ex-Charlistas', such as then senators ] and ], then federal deputy {{Interlanguage link|Ruy Bacelar|pt|Ruy Bacelar}} and the former mayor of ], {{Interlanguage link|Nilo Coelho|pt|Nilo Coelho}}, his friend from youth, chosen as vice-president on the ticket of one of the leaders of the PMDB's “historic group”.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Souza |first=Berlarmino |date=2013 |title=A conquista da Bahia - O sudoeste baiano na eleição de Waldir Pires (1986) e as disputas pela municipalidade em vitória da conquista |url=https://www.snh2013.anpuh.org/resources/anais/27/1364678744_ARQUIVO_Textocompleto-BelarminoSouza.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805220550/https://www.snh2013.anpuh.org/resources/anais/27/1364678744_ARQUIVO_Textocompleto-BelarminoSouza.pdf |archive-date=August 5, 2024 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kertész |first=Mário |date=December 12, 2014 |title=Reunião em 1986, na casa de Roberto Santos, com Ulisses Guimarães, Waldir Pires e eu. |url=https://x.com/marioksz/status/543363308045496321 |url-status=live |access-date=December 12, 2024 |website=]}}</ref>
In August 2024, Gayer and Carla Zambelli were ordered by the São Paulo courts to pay compensation for moral damages to a teacher after sharing her phone number on social media.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 9, 2024 |title=Justiça condena Carla Zambelli e Gustavo Gayer por exposição de dados pessoais de professora nas redes |url=https://www.cartacapital.com.br/justica/justica-condena-carla-zambelli-e-gustavo-gayer-por-exposicao-de-dados-pessoais-de-professora-nas-redes/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250102182641/https://www.cartacapital.com.br/justica/justica-condena-carla-zambelli-e-gustavo-gayer-por-exposicao-de-dados-pessoais-de-professora-nas-redes/ |archive-date=January 2, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref> The episode occurred after the teacher sent Zambelli a private message in which she called her a “]”. In response, the MP posted the screenshots of the conversation on her social networks, an action that was reinforced by Gayer, who shared the content during an Instagram ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Trajano |first=Pedro |date=August 8, 2024 |title=Carla Zambelli é condenada por vazar número de professora que a xingou {{!}} Metrópoles |url=https://www.metropoles.com/sao-paulo/carla-zambelli-e-condenada-por-vazar-numero-de-professora-que-a-xingou |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905095257/https://www.metropoles.com/sao-paulo/carla-zambelli-e-condenada-por-vazar-numero-de-professora-que-a-xingou |archive-date=September 5, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref>


The decision condemning the two politicians was handed down by Judge Camila Franco de Moraes Mariani, of the 21st Civil Court, who set the compensation at 3 000 reais, significantly less than the 117 000 reais initially requested by the teacher. Zambelli even requested compensation for moral damages, claiming that the private message contained disrespectful content.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Assad |first=Paulo |date=August 8, 2024 |title=Carla Zambelli e Gustavo Gayer são condenados por compartilhar telefone de professora nas redes |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/noticia/2024/08/08/carla-zambelli-e-gustavo-gayer-sao-condenados-por-compartilhar-telefone-de-professora-nas-redes.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240904015732/https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/noticia/2024/08/08/carla-zambelli-e-gustavo-gayer-sao-condenados-por-compartilhar-telefone-de-professora-nas-redes.ghtml |archive-date=September 4, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> However, the judge rejected the request, arguing that it was the MP herself who made the message public, exposing the conflict and aggravating the situation. The decision can still be appealed, both by the teacher and by the convicted MPs.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=August 8, 2024 |title=Carla Zambelli e Gustavo Gayer são condenados em SP |url=https://bandnewstv.uol.com.br/2024/08/08/carla-zambelli-e-gustavo-gayer-sao-condenados-em-sp/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240809171300/https://bandnewstv.uol.com.br/2024/08/08/carla-zambelli-e-gustavo-gayer-sao-condenados-em-sp/ |archive-date=August 9, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
He organized the candidacy of ], president of the {{Interlanguage link|Gregório de Mattos Foundation|pt|Fundação Gregório de Mattos |lt=Gregório de Mattos Foundation}}, to succeed him in {{Interlanguage link|1988 Mayor election in Salvador|pt|Eleições municipais em Salvador em 1985 |lt=1988}}, which was vetoed by governor Waldir Pires.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pitombo |first=João |date=March 30, 2019 |title='Prefeito que não foi', Gilberto Gil era empossado vereador de Salvador há 30 anos |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2019/03/prefeito-que-nao-foi-gilberto-gil-era-empossado-vereador-de-salvador-ha-30-anos.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417150113/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2019/03/prefeito-que-nao-foi-gilberto-gil-era-empossado-vereador-de-salvador-ha-30-anos.shtml |archive-date=April 17, 2024 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=] |language=pt-BR}}</ref> As a result, he teamed up with communications businessman Pedro Irujo to launch the candidacy of broadcaster {{Interlanguage link|Fernando José (Brazilian broadcaster)|pt|Fernando José |lt=Fernando José}} for mayor of the capital, who was elected in that election.


== Personal life ==
The following year, 1989, Fernando José broke off political agreements, abandoned ongoing projects, terminated contracts, stopped work and, with the support of the ] newspaper, launched a fierce campaign against Kertész.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Silva |first=Rodrigo |date=March 2, 2023 |title=A arte da traição: história mostra que deslealdade entre Criador e criatura marca a política baiana |url=https://www.metro1.com.br/noticias/jornal-da-metropole/133659,a-arte-da-traicao-historia-mostra-que-deslealdade-entre-criador-e-criatura-marca-a-politica-baiana |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307103828/https://www.metro1.com.br/noticias/jornal-da-metropole/133659,a-arte-da-traicao-historia-mostra-que-deslealdade-entre-criador-e-criatura-marca-a-politica-baiana |archive-date=March 7, 2023 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Metro 1 |language=pt-br}}</ref> He ran again for mayor of Salvador in {{Interlanguage link|1992 Mayor election in Salvador|pt|Eleições municipais em Salvador em 1992|lt=1992}}. He lost the election to Lídice da Mata and abandoned his political career to dedicate himself to private enterprise.
He was married to Ethiene Araújo Chaves, with whom he had two children.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 10, 2024 |title=Gustavo Gayer anuncia fim do casamento com Ethienne, cessando boatos |url=https://horabrasilia.com.br/2024/06/gustavo-gayer-anuncia-fim-do-casamento-com-ethienne-cessando-boatos/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106194612/https://horabrasilia.com.br/2024/06/gustavo-gayer-anuncia-fim-do-casamento-com-ethienne-cessando-boatos/ |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Hora de Brasília}}</ref> The couple divorced in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sampaio |first=Carlos Nathan |date=January 19, 2024 |title="Motivo" de divórcio entre Gayer e ex-esposa é revelado por Kajuru e mulher responde; vídeo |url=https://diariodegoias.com.br/kajuru-revela-motivo-de-separacao-entre-gayer-e-ex-esposa/403562/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303160316/https://diariodegoias.com.br/kajuru-revela-motivo-de-separacao-entre-gayer-e-ex-esposa/403562/ |archive-date=March 3, 2024 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=Diário de Goiás |language=pt-BR}}</ref>


Gayer is the brother of fellow businessman Frederico Gayer Machado de Araújo, who is married to Luana Ribeiro, a state deputy for Tocantins ex-representing and the daughter of Senator {{Interlanguage link|João Ribeiro (Brazilian politician)|pt|João Ribeiro (político brasileiro) |lt=João Ribeiro}}.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |last=Sueste |first=Charlyne |date=March 18, 2014 |title=Empresário Frederico Gayer é condenado a 12 anos de prisão por homicídio |url=https://www.t1noticias.com.br/a/56354 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209014629/https://www.t1noticias.com.br/a/56354 |archive-date=February 9, 2022 |access-date=February 9, 2022 |website=T1 Notícias}}</ref> In March 2014, Frederico Gayer was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison, to be served in a closed regime, for aggravated homicide in connection with the death of Hebert Resende. The crime occurred in the early hours of April 5, 1997, in front of the Draft nightclub in Goiânia.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=March 18, 2014 |title=Marido de deputada do Tocantins é condenado por homicídio em Goiânia |url=https://g1.globo.com/to/tocantins/noticia/2014/03/marido-de-deputada-do-tocantins-e-condenado-por-homicidio-em-goiania.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927191909/https://g1.globo.com/to/tocantins/noticia/2014/03/marido-de-deputada-do-tocantins-e-condenado-por-homicidio-em-goiania.html |archive-date=September 27, 2023 |access-date=January 6, 2025 |website=] |language=pt-br}}</ref> At the time, Frederico Gayer was serving as a police officer, appointed by the Goiás state government without having passed a public civil service exam.<ref name=":12" />
At the invitation of the PMDB, he joined the party in 2011 and was launched as a candidate for Mayor of Salvador, after 19 years away from party politics. <ref>{{Cite web |date=July 7, 2011 |title=PMDB terá candidato a prefeito em 24 capitais, diz Raupp |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/942182-pmdb-tera-candidato-a-prefeito-em-24-capitais-diz-raupp.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716052556/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/942182-pmdb-tera-candidato-a-prefeito-em-24-capitais-diz-raupp.shtml |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=September 22, 2011 |title=Mário Kértesz anuncia disposição de se filiar ao PMDB |url=https://www.acordacidade.com.br/variedades/mario-kertesz-anuncia-disposicao-de-se-filiar-ao-pmdb/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224194517/https://www.acordacidade.com.br/variedades/mario-kertesz-anuncia-disposicao-de-se-filiar-ao-pmdb/ |archive-date=December 24, 2024 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Acorda Cidade - Portal de notícias de Feira de Santana |language=pt-BR}}</ref> In the 2012 elections, he only came third in the first round and broke with the PMDB, which supported the Carlist candidate ], to support the ] candidate, {{Interlanguage link|Nelson Peregrino|pt|Nelson Peregrino|lt=Nelson Peregrino}}.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mário Kertész sai do PMDB e declara apoio a Pelegrino: “É a melhor opção para Salvador” |url=https://ujs.org.br/blog/noticias/mario-kertesz-sai-do-pmdb-e-declara-apoio-a-pelegrino-e-a-melhor-opcao-para-salvador/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224194746/https://ujs.org.br/blog/noticias/mario-kertesz-sai-do-pmdb-e-declara-apoio-a-pelegrino-e-a-melhor-opcao-para-salvador/ |archive-date=December 24, 2024 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=União Juventude Socialista |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=October 11, 2012 |title=Mário Kertész anuncia apoio a Pelegrino e desfiliação do PMDB |url=https://www.ibahia.com/salvador/mario-kertesz-anuncia-apoio-a-pelegrino-e-desfiliacao-do-pmdb |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224195036/https://www.ibahia.com/salvador/mario-kertesz-anuncia-apoio-a-pelegrino-e-desfiliacao-do-pmdb |archive-date=December 24, 2024 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=iBahia |language=pt-br}}</ref>


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Gustavo Gayer
Gayer in 2024
Federal Deputy for Goiás
Incumbent
Assumed office
February 1, 2023 – present
Personal details
BornGustavo Gayer Machado de Araújo
(1981-04-13) April 13, 1981 (age 43)
Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Political partyPL (2022–present)
DC (2020–2022)
ProfessionTeacher
Entrepreneur
Politician

Gustavo Gayer Machado de Araújo (April 13, 1981) is a Brazilian businessman, politician, youtuber and internet celebrity. He became better known in 2020 due to the rise of conservatism and the far-right on social media, aligning himself with then-president Jair Bolsonaro. He is considered one of the most controversial politicians in Goiás state and one of the main Bolsonaro supporters in the state. He was named by the COVID-19 CPI as one of the YouTubers who profited most from spreading fake news about Covid-19. In 2022, he was elected federal deputy for Goiás with the second highest vote in the state.

Congressman Gustavo Gayer is facing calls for his impeachment and possible imprisonment due to controversial statements associating the existence of dictatorships on the African continent with the supposed “lack of cognitive capacity” of the population. In a podcast, Gayer compared the IQ in Africa to that of monkeys, claiming that Brazil is following the same path. In addition, he is accused of insulting President Lula and of racism by linking Minister Silvio Almeida 's African descent to a supposed intellectual inferiority, resulting in accusations that seek to hold him responsible for disseminating racist and segregationist ideas.

Biography

Early years

Gayer was born on April 13, 1981, in Goiânia, the capital of the state of Góias. He is the son of delegate, councilor of Goiania and state deputy, Maria da Conceição Gayer [pt], who died in December 2006, who campaigned against the military dictatorship in the early 1980's. His great-grandfather, Plínio Gayer [pt], was a federal deputy for Goiás in the 1950s and was member of Juscelino Kubitschek party, Social Democratic Party (PSD). He is the brother-in-law of Luana Ribeiro [pt], a state deputy from Tocantins, who was a member of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB). In an interview with the Goiás newspaper Diário do Estado in October 2020, she said that her father abandoned her mother when she was still pregnant, and she was raised by an LGBTQ brother who was ten years older.

Career

He is the owner of a language school with a focus on english, and works as a teacher at the school, despite not having higher education, as well as being a digital activist and political commentator. He is a digital activist and political commentator.

He became known for his strong engagement with far-right social networks. He has a YouTube channel where he claims to “spread the truth and prevent more young people from falling into the ideological dungeon of the left”. As of September 2020, his channel had 290 000 subscribers and videos with 1 million views.

In July 2021 his channel had 419 000 subscribers, having already reached 452 000 subscribers in August of the same year, by which time he was already well identified as a disseminator of fake news. In January 2025, the channel had 1 840 000 subscribers and more than 115 million views. He is a regular commentator on the online political analysis program Hora do Strike, broadcast by the Paraná newspaper Gazeta do Povo.

Political

Gayer says he became interested in politics in 2015, “outraged at the way Brazil was going”. He began to take part in the demonstrations for Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, then for Operation Car Wash, and all the demonstrations in support of Bolsonaro.

He entered politics in 2020, building his space in the political field as one of Bolsonaro's biggest supporters. He joined Christian Democracy (DC), to run for mayor of Goiania in 2020 [pt]. In September 2020, his candidacy was made official by the party to run for mayor. According to Gayer, his motivation for entering politics was dissatisfaction at seeing “opportunists”, as he described the then São Paulo senator Major Olímpio and the São Paulo federal deputies Alexandre Frota and Joice Hasselmann, seeking to attract votes from Bolsonaro voters.

On October 21, 2020, his candidacy was rejected by electoral judge Wilson da Silva Dias, due to the absence of first-degree criminal certificates from the State and Federal Courts for the deputy mayor, Alexandre Magalhães, and therefore not being able to register. Despite the ruling, the case was reviewed after an appeal was filed with the electoral court and Gayer was allowed to run for mayor. He finished the election in fourth place, not advancing to the second round, and ahead of deputy Major Araújo [pt], of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), a candidate officially supported by Bolsonaro.

As he became more prominent in the DC's Goiás chapter, he got closer to Bolsonaro, even arranging an official lunch the following year.

Without holding public office, on January 19, 2022, he traveled with public money to the United States together with the federal deputy from São Paulo, Carla Zambelli, and the senator from Ceará, Eduardo Girão, both from Bolsonaro's support base in Congress, in order to participate in the conservative March of Life, with anti-abortion agendas, in Washington, D. C., demanding tougher rules for women who try to have the procedure. The three also attended a dinner at Donald Trump's Trump International Hotel, sponsored by the anti-abortion movement.

He left the DC and joined the Liberal Party (PL). In 2022, he was elected federal deputy for Goiás, receiving more than 200 000 votes and being the second most voted deputy in the election [pt], behind only of Silvye Alves [pt] (UNIÃO). In the 2024 mayoral election, Goiânia presented his pre-candidacy. After being passed over by Bolsonaro, who chose Fred Rodrigues [pt] to support, and facing a Federal Police (PF) action for embezzling public funds, he decided to leave the campaign.

Electoral historical

Year Election Office Party Votes Result Ref.
2020 Goiânia mayoral election [pt] Mayor DC 45 928 Not elected
2022 Goiânia gubernatorial election [pt] Federal deputy PL 200 586 Elected

Controversies

Fake News

Ridicule of nursing

At the beginning of May 2020, Gayer went to a nurses ' protest on the Esplanade of the Ministries in Brasilia, paying a tribute to colleagues who had died after contracting Covid-19. Gayer spread the word on social media that the act was fake, organized by people pretending to be health professionals. At the same demonstration, several nurses were attacked by Bolsonaro supporters. The Nursing Council of the Federal District (Coren-DF) identified three people who harassed the nurses at the demonstration, and filed a complaint with the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office against the aggressors, including Gayer. According to the council's complaint, Gayer's offenses were aimed at diminishing, belittling and ridiculing nursing as an institution and as a profession. Gayer's offenses were aimed at diminishing, belittling and ridiculing nursing as an institution and as a profession.

According to the list provided by Google to the Covid-19 CPI and published by the Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Globo in June 2021, Gayer's YouTube channel was the second most profitable with videos spreading fake news about the Covid-19 pandemic, before his videos were deleted for spreading disinformation.

Fake news

According to the list provided by Google to the Covid-19 CPI and published by the Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Globo in June 2021, Gayer's YouTube channel was the second most profitable with videos spreading fake news about the Covid-19 pandemic, before his videos were deleted for spreading disinformation. Gayer earned almost 8,000 dollars, about 40,000 reais when converting the currency, corresponding to 56 videos disseminating disinformation, second only to journalist Alexandre Garcia's channel.

Anti-gender movement

In October 2020, in an interview with the newspaper Diário do Estado, Gayer stated that, having been raised by a gay brother, he intended to support homosexuals if elected to the mayoralty. In his government plan, however, Gayer stated that he was against gender ideology.

Comprova project

In July 2021, the Comprova project [pt], a pool of investigative reports between several broadcasters, investigated and reported on the video after showing an excerpt from a program on TV Sucesso [pt], a TV Record affiliate that broadcasts to 30 cities in the southwest of Goiás, the partial result of a poll, saying: “if we don't get an auditable vote with a public count, Lula will be put in the presidency, even though 87.5% of the population rejects Lula and approves of Bolsonaro”. The video has gone viral, being viewed at least 286,600 times on YouTube and Facebook. The information disseminated is considered manipulated, false and misleading, contributing to the discrediting of the Brazilian electoral system. Not only did the poll have no scientific value, having been carried out on WhatsApp without any control of respondents, it hadn't even finished with the result transmitted by Gayer. The section showing 87.5% had been obtained in the first few minutes, still with few responses, gradually dropping to 64.9% for Bolsonaro and 33.1% for Lula. In addition, contrary to what Gayer said, referring to a 2019 proposal by federal deputy Bia Kicis, the vote has already been auditable through various mechanisms since at least 2020.

Fake News about Barroso

In the same month, it misrepresented two statements by Luís Roberto Barroso, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) minister and current president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), falsely leading people to believe that the magistrate had already been in favor of the printed ballot, but that he was against it.

Fraud in the electronic ballot box

In August 2021, he published a video summarizing an interview in which Bolsonaro presents alleged evidence of fraud in the electonic ballot boxes [pt] based on a Federal Police investigation, claiming that, in the course of this investigation, the TSE would have admitted tampering with the software of the electronic ballot boxes in 2018, the year Bolsonaro was elected president. The video had been viewed more than 56 000 times on Instagram. The information propagated by Gayer was, however, false, and the TSE has never admitted to any tampering.

Video drops

On August 16, 2021, the TSE ordered the suspension of reposts to social media channels that spread lies about the elections. 25 channels deleted videos, the largest number of which were deleted on Gayer's channel, a total of 59.

Conviction for racist statements and insults

In June 2023, Gayer caused controversy by associating dictatorships in African countries with the supposed “lack of cognitive capacity” of the population, declaring that “Brazil is dumbed down” and following the path of African nations. In a podcast, Gayer claimed that the IQ in Africa is 72, comparing it to that of monkeys, and argued that democracy does not thrive in the region due to the alleged cognitive incapacity.

These statements prompted a request for his removal from office for racism at the Chamber's Ethics Council, in addition to two other representations against him. Gayer also faces accusations of insulting President Lula and of racism when he associates the Afro-descendancy of the Minister of Human Rights, Silvio Almeida, with the supposedly inferior intelligence quotient of African peoples.

The Attorney General's Office (PGR) accuses Gayer of spreading racist and segregationist ideas, inferiorizing and dehumanizing blacks and Afro-descendants by comparing them to monkeys. The deputy attorney general claims that the speeches by Gayer and Rodrigo Barbosa Arantes, made on a podcast with around 14 000 views, incited discrimination and racial prejudice.

Fights and lawsuits

Clashes in the Liberal Party's Whatsapp group

After the vote on tax reform in 2022, in WhatsApp fights with his party colleague, Vinícius Gurgel [pt] (until then a member of the PL in Amapá), his murder trial was resurrected, and he was provoked with a recommendation to join Alcoholics Anonymous (AA.). “Take care of your cases and join AA. Stop driving drunk!” said the deputy from Amapá. Gustavo rebutted with: “There are no lawsuits, dear retard. But your case is quite different, isn't it?” in reference to Gurgel's DNIT [pt] cases. “Your murder case hasn't been tried! It's time-barred! Could it be that you were at fault?” replied Gurgel.

Discussion with Sylvie Alves

In 2022, after the vote on the MP for the Ministries, Gayer accused Sylvie Alves (until then a member of parliament for UNIÃO) of having “sold out” to the Lula government on social media. The MP replied: “For a man who has already killed two people in a drunken accident, he should be sensitive to some causes”, and added: “In fact, he left the third paralyzed and never paid any attention”, reinforcing the accusations the following day on Instagram. Gayer filed a lawsuit against Sylvie at the STF against the attacks. The Supreme Court dismissed the complaint sent by Gayer.

Dismissal of a teacher

In 2023, a history and art teacher at a school in Aparecida de Goiânia, in the interior of Goiás, was fired after federal deputy Gustavo Gayer (PL) criticized her on social media for wearing a T-shirt with the expression Seja marginal, seja herói, in reference to the work of artist Hélio Oiticica, whose work is the subject of entrance exam questions. Gayer published the image of the teacher with the caption “History teacher with a petista look in the classroom”. The teacher received support from the school community, said that the T-shirt had no political association and declared that the MP had attacked all education professionals. The Goiás State Teachers' Union (Sinpro Goiás) repudiated the congressman's attitude and said it would file a lawsuit against the congressman to delete social networks that spread hate and fake news.

Suit for moral damages after exposure of telephone number

In August 2024, Gayer and Carla Zambelli were ordered by the São Paulo courts to pay compensation for moral damages to a teacher after sharing her phone number on social media. The episode occurred after the teacher sent Zambelli a private message in which she called her a “fascist”. In response, the MP posted the screenshots of the conversation on her social networks, an action that was reinforced by Gayer, who shared the content during an Instagram livestream.

The decision condemning the two politicians was handed down by Judge Camila Franco de Moraes Mariani, of the 21st Civil Court, who set the compensation at 3 000 reais, significantly less than the 117 000 reais initially requested by the teacher. Zambelli even requested compensation for moral damages, claiming that the private message contained disrespectful content. However, the judge rejected the request, arguing that it was the MP herself who made the message public, exposing the conflict and aggravating the situation. The decision can still be appealed, both by the teacher and by the convicted MPs.

Personal life

He was married to Ethiene Araújo Chaves, with whom he had two children. The couple divorced in 2024.

Gayer is the brother of fellow businessman Frederico Gayer Machado de Araújo, who is married to Luana Ribeiro, a state deputy for Tocantins ex-representing and the daughter of Senator João Ribeiro [pt]. In March 2014, Frederico Gayer was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison, to be served in a closed regime, for aggravated homicide in connection with the death of Hebert Resende. The crime occurred in the early hours of April 5, 1997, in front of the Draft nightclub in Goiânia. At the time, Frederico Gayer was serving as a police officer, appointed by the Goiás state government without having passed a public civil service exam.

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