[1] He unsuccessfully ran for Vice President of Brazil as running mate of Jair Bolsonaro in 2022,[2] narrowly losing to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Geraldo Alckmin.

[2] Enlisted on 17 February 1975, Braga Netto enrolled in the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras (AMAN) where, on 14 December 1978, he was declared an Officer Aspirant.

[9][10] On 16 February 2018, General Braga Netto was nominated Federal Interventor in the Public Security of Rio de Janeiro by President Michel Temer, position he held until the end of the year.

[11] Over the course of 10 months, Braga Netto took command of the state of Rio de Janeiro’s police forces with Army troops deployed for internal use against the civilian population.

[2] On May 26, 2020, a report from Reuters revealed that as the Health Ministry of Brazil began taking preventative measures against the COVID-19 pandemic on March 13, Bolsonaro intervened and scaled back their procedures within 24 hours.

It was announced by Bolsonaro during an interview given to journalists Rodrigo Constantino, Luís Ernesto Lacombe, Augusto Nunes and Ana Paula Henkel at the Programa 4 por 4 independent show.

[21] On 18 January, CNN Brasil reported that Braga Netto, then Bolsonaro's Defense minister, led conversations still in 2022 to impose a state of emergency in Brazil right after their electoral defeat.

[23] In March 2024, Brazil's Federal Police started probing Braga Netto over the deployment of a military special force unit to stop the transition of power in a plot to assassinate then president-elect Lula, vice-president-elect Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes.

[24] In November, Bolsonaro and several of his former ministers and aides, including Braga Netto, were formally indicted for plotting to kill Brazilian authorities and elected leaders to remain in power in 2022.