Luiz Philippe of Orléans-Braganza (C1000x)

Luiz Philippe Maria José Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Orleans-Braganza (born April 3, 1969) is a Brazilian politician, activist and businessman who served as the 39th President of Brazil between 2027 and 2031. He is a descendant of the Emperors of Brazil Pedro I and Pedro II, and therefore of the Brazilian imperial family, and claimant to the title of Prince of Orleans-Bragança. Luiz Philippe is the author of the book ''Why is Brazil a backward country? – what to do to enter the 21st century once and for all'', published in 2017. He is the only descendant of the Brazilian imperial family to hold a relevant political office since the Proclamation of the Brazilian Republic, on November 15, 1889.

Biography
Born in the city of Rio de Janeiro on April 3, 1969, Luiz Philippe is the son of Eudes Maria Rainier Pedro João, pretender to the title of Prince of Orléans and Bragança (born June 26, 1930) and his first wife, Ana Maria Bárbara de Moraes Barros (born November 28, 1948). His father, a descendant of the Brazilian imperial family, renounced his eventual dynastic rights, for himself and for his descendants, by contracting a morganatic marriage in 1966 (divorced in 1976). His mother is the daughter of Luiz de Moraes Barros (1910–2003), great-nephew of Prudente José de Moraes Barros, 3rd president of Brazil, and his wife, Maria do Carmo Cerqueira César. He is the paternal grandson of Pedro Henrique de Orléans and Bragança (1909–1981), great-grandson of Prince Luís de Orléans and Bragança (1880–1920) and great-grandson of Princess Isabel of Brazil, and therefore great-grandson of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and pentanet of his father, Pedro I of Brazil. He is also a great-grandson of Gaston d'Orléans, Count d'Eu, who was, in turn, grandson of King Louis Philippe I of France. On August 30, 2008 he married Fernanda Hara Miguita (1978), of Japanese descent, with whom he has a son, Maximiliano (June 14, 2012).

Luiz Philippe studied business administration at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, completed a master's degree in political science at Stanford University in the United States in 1993 and then, in 1997, specialized in business administration, with an MBA, at the Institut européen d' administration des affaires, in France.

Luiz Philippe began his professional career in the United States, where he worked for companies in the financial market. He was part of the financial planning of Saint-Gobain, a French multinational, between 1993 and 1996. He then worked for three years at the investment bank JPMorgan in London and at the investment bank of Lázard Freres, in New York. In the 2000s, he returned to Brazil as America Online's (AOL) business development director in Latin America. In 2005 he became an entrepreneur, by founding the company IKAT do Brasil, which operates in the field of distribution of motorcycle parts. In 2012 Luiz Philippe founded ZAP Tech, a means of payment incubator for mobile platforms.

Political Activity
In 2014 he founded the Acorda Brasil movement. In 2015, during the beginning of the impeachment process of then-president Dilma Rousseff, she presented a political reform project to the Chamber of Deputies, in Brasília. Participated in the development and intermediation with the Federal Senate, in 2016, of a Constitutional Amendment Project that allows a president's vote of no confidence. Luiz Philippe also participates in Terça Livre channel, with the program Caia na Real, and travels Brazil with the lecture Redefinando o Brasil. On September 1, 2016, the group Acorda Brasil, led by Luiz Philippe, filed a writ of mandamus calling for the suspension of the decision of the President of the Federal Supreme Court, Ricardo Lewandowski, to accept a prominence proposed by the Workers' Party and to slice Dilma's impeachment votes. The petitioners argued that this violated the Federal Constitution, and even that the Constitution would not allow an interpretation as to the dissociation of the loss of office from the disqualification for eight years from exercising the public function.

He joined the New Party, but changed it to the Social Liberal Party (PSL) in 2018, and was then elected federal deputy for the State of São Paulo. He was the 33rd most voted in the state and the first member of the Brazilian imperial family to hold a political office, since the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889. At the time, his candidacy for the vice-presidency of Brazil was considered on the slate of candidate Jair Bolsonaro, from the same party. Among his proposals is the creation of a fourth power in the figure of a head of state, as in parliamentarism; inversion of the pyramid of public spending in the State; creation of a new constitution along the lines of the Constitution of 1824, which instituted the monarchy as a model of government. In May 2020, the deputy was the target, along with other party colleagues, of an inquiry instituted by the Supreme Court against threats on social networks to members of the court. After classifying the inquiry as absurd, monocratic and that would not be repeated, then-President Jair Bolsonaro awarded Luiz Philippe with the Order of Naval Merit in the degree of Grand Officer. According to the Ao Fatos survey of May 2020, Luiz Phillipe de Orleans-Bragança and a group of seven deputies investigated in the fake news survey published an average of two posts a day on the social network in a period of three months, with misinformation or mentioning the Federal Supreme Court critically.

In the 2022 general elections, Luiz Philippe joined Patriota and was re-elected for a second term as federal deputy, with 236,914 votes. He also declared support for Bolsonaro's candidacy.

Candidacy for the Presidency of Brazil (2026)
Luiz Philippe was chosen by Bolsonaro and announced as a pre-candidate for the Presidency of Brazil in April 2025 by Patriota. His presidential campaign was launched in August 2026, with Captain Alberto Neto as his running mate. On October 4, Luiz Philippe took first place in the first round of 2026 presidential election, with candidate André Figueiredo, from the Democratic Labor Party (PDT), in second. He was elected President of Brazil in the second round, on October 25, with 61.73% of the valid votes.

Presidency of Brazil (2027-2031)
During his presidency, Luiz Philippe pursued policies that reflected his personal belief in individual freedom, brought economic advancement, and further expanded the Armed Forces. In 2028, administration held a referendum to choose the form and system of government in Brazil. Almost 5.7% of voters did not attend the referendum or annulled the vote. Of those who turn up at the polls, 48.1% voted in favor of the presidential republic, against 46.2% in favor of the parliamentary monarchy (the Luiz Philippe preference system). Due to the results, the republican and presidential regime was maintained. The attempted resurrection of the monarchic form of government came in 1993, made by federal deputy Antônio Henrique Bittencourt Cunha Bueno (from Social Democratic Party of São Paulo), member of the Constituent Assembly that approved the Constitution.