Who is Nikolas Ferreira?
Nikolas Ferreira was born in Belo Horizonte in 1996 and became known as a social-media influencer. He was elected a city councillor in 2020 and a federal deputy for the PL in 2022, with about 1.49 million votes. In 2026 he was vice-leader of the Opposition in the Chamber. On 4 October he was re-elected with 3,119,318 votes, a national record, and Estado de Minas credits him with helping elect five federal and 18 state deputies. He campaigned for Flávio Bolsonaro, who lost the 25 October runoff to Lula, and the next day he said the chance of annulling the election was practically nil.
Previously: Vice-leader of the Opposition in the Chamber of Deputies (2026) · Third vice-president of the Constitution and Justice Committee (since March 2026) · Chair of the Chamber's Education Committee (2024) · Belo Horizonte city councillor (elected 2020)
Documented positions
- His first bill as a federal deputy, PL 456/2023, would ease citizens' access to buy, register and own firearms and ammunition.Source: em.com.br
- He is one of the signatories of PL 1904/2024, which would punish abortion after 22 weeks like simple homicide, including after rape.Source: congressoemfoco.com.br
- In July 2026 he attacked the misogyny bill, arguing it could restrict free speech and religious freedom and that tougher penalties for sex crimes would protect women better.Source: congressoemfoco.com.br
- He describes himself as a Christian, conservative and defender of the family, and as a councillor proposed opposing gender-neutral language in city schools.Source: politize.com.br
- He favours deregulating the economic market and voted for the tax reform.Source: politize.com.br
- He holds two opposition posts in the Chamber, as vice-leader of the Opposition and first vice-leader of the Minority, and a vice-presidency of the Constitution and Justice Committee.Source: camara.leg.br
- On 26 October 2026 he said the chance of annulling the presidential election was practically nil and asked supporters not to protest in the streets.Source: midiamax.com.br
Record
His 8 March 2023 speech in the Chamber, in which he wore a wig and mocked trans people, led to several proceedings. Justice André Mendonça archived five criminal complaints in 2024 at the prosecutor-general's request, finding the speech covered by parliamentary immunity, and the Chamber's Ethics Council archived a separate request to remove his mandate. On 29 April 2025 a Brasília civil court ordered him to pay R$ 200,000 in collective moral damages, ruling that the speech amounted to hate speech. That is a first-instance ruling and he has said he will appeal.
Supporters credit him with large social-media reach and electoral pull. Critics, human-rights advocates among them, see his positions on minorities as discriminatory, according to Politize.
In their words
“a chance de anular essa eleição é praticamente nula.”
