Alfredo Gaspar

Alfredo Gaspar de Mendonça Neto is a Brazilian prosecutor and politician who sits in the Chamber of Deputies for Alagoas and, since August 2026, has been the running mate of Flávio Bolsonaro in that year's presidential election. He is 56.

Gaspar's public identity rests on two things: a career inside the Alagoas state legal system, where he served twice as attorney general, and two stints running the state's public security secretariat. Those portfolios made him a familiar figure in Alagoas before he ever ran for Congress, and they are the credentials he now carries onto a national ticket. In the Chamber he has concentrated on public security and criminal justice, and he served as rapporteur of the CPMI do INSS, the joint congressional inquiry that dominated a stretch of the 2025 and 2026 legislative calendar.

The vice-presidential selection, announced on August 5, 2026, put a law-and-order lawmaker one heartbeat from the presidency, as Reuters framed it. Gaspar is not a national celebrity in the way entertainers are; his recognition is concentrated among Brazilian voters who follow security policy and the Bolsonaro political network. His own social media bios now read Candidato a Vice-Presidente do Brasil. [edit]

Gaspar was born on August 13, 1970, in Maceió, the capital of Alagoas, a small northeastern state whose politics have long been shaped by a handful of families and by the federal institutions that operate there. He trained as a prosecutor, a promotor de justiça, and spent his professional life inside the Alagoas justice system rather than in elected office. His official profiles state that he served twice as Procurador-Geral de Justiça, the state's attorney general, a position that placed him at the head of the state's prosecutorial service and made him a known name in local legal and political circles.

That legal career gave him the platform for the move into security administration. In 2015 he was appointed secretary of public security of Alagoas, running the state's police apparatus through 2016. He returned to the same post in 2021 and held it until 2022, a second stretch in which crime and policing were again central to state debate. Between and around those appointments he remained a career prosecutor, and the combination of prosecutorial authority and operational security command is unusual in Brazilian state politics, where the two worlds are often kept apart.

By the time he ran for Congress in 2022, Gaspar had a record to point to that was built entirely outside the legislature: two terms as attorney general and two tours running the security secretariat. His campaign materials leaned on that record, and his bios later described him as a four-time best federal deputy for Alagoas, a title conferred by a local press or industry ranking rather than by the Chamber itself. [edit]

Gaspar won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 2022 elections and took office in 2023 as a member of the Liberal Party, the PL. In Congress he became one of the more vocal members on public security and criminal justice, areas where his executive experience gave him a standing that freshmen deputies rarely have.

His most visible legislative role came as rapporteur of the CPMI do INSS, the joint congressional inquiry into irregularities at the National Social Security Institute. The inquiry put him in front of television cameras for months and made his name familiar well beyond Alagoas. On August 5, 2026, Flávio Bolsonaro announced Gaspar as his vice-presidential running mate for the October 2026 election. Reuters described the choice as placing a law-and-order lawmaker a heartbeat from the presidency, and the pick was widely read as a signal that security policy would sit near the top of the ticket's priorities.

His own social media profiles were updated to read Candidato a Vice-Presidente do Brasil, and his campaign activity since the announcement has centered on the October vote. He remains a sitting federal deputy for Alagoas while running. [edit]

Gaspar's public image is built on the prosecutor's persona: precise, procedural, and comfortable in the language of law enforcement. He dresses and speaks like a career official rather than a campaigner, and his television performances during the CPMI do INSS leaned on that register. Where many deputies cultivate a folksy or combative style, Gaspar's is more clipped and institutional, which suits a running mate whose job is to reassure voters on security and competence.

His social media voice is direct and declarative, typically one or two sentences with a clear position. The profile photos and banners are conventional political portraiture. He does not cultivate a personal brand in the way entertainers or younger politicians do, and his public presence is almost entirely tied to his official roles. [edit]

iFANN has not yet collected fame data for Alfredo Gaspar, so no ranking placement is available for him. He is a political figure whose recognition is concentrated in Brazil and, more narrowly, among voters who follow security policy and the Bolsonaro network. He is not on the September 2026 iFAMOUS Rankings flagship list.

There is no formal fanbase and no fandom name. The people who follow him are voters, political journalists, and residents of Alagoas who know his record from state politics. His social accounts carry a modest political following rather than an organized fan culture, and there are no documented fan projects, campaigns, or rituals around him. Engagement tends to be issue-driven, concentrated on public security debates and on the 2026 presidential campaign. [edit]

Gaspar's social media bios carry two self-descriptions that say a lot about how he presents himself: 4x Melhor Dep. Federal de Alagoas, or four-time best federal deputy for Alagoas, and 2x Sec. de Segurança, two-time security secretary. The first is a distinction conferred by a local ranking rather than by the Chamber.

He is not the only Alfredo Gaspar in Brazilian public life. A Brazilian actor and model of the same name appears in entertainment coverage, and the two are frequently confused in search results. The politician is the one from Maceió, born in 1970.

On X he wrote of Jair Bolsonaro, Será o melhor presidente da história do Brasil, which translates as He will be the best president in Brazil's history. The line is a fair sample of his public voice: direct, declarative, and firmly inside the Bolsonaro camp.

His YouTube channel, Instagram, and X accounts all use variants of the same handle, alfredogaspar, with the X account adding a trailing underscore. [edit]

Gaspar has kept his family out of public view. No spouse, children, parents, or siblings are documented in the available reporting on his political and legal career, and his campaign and congressional profiles do not list a family. He was born in Maceió and his professional life has been based in Alagoas, but no reporting describes his household or where he lives now. In the absence of credible information, his family circumstances should be treated as not publicly documented rather than assumed either way. [edit]

Flávio Bolsonaro, Jair Bolsonaro, the Liberal Party (PL), and the Alagoas state government and justice system. [edit]

No romantic relationships, marriage, divorce, or children are documented in the available reporting on Alfredo Gaspar. Coverage of him centers on his legal and political career, and neither his official profiles nor the press reporting around his vice-presidential selection describes a partner or family. As of 2026 his marital status is not publicly documented, and it should be described that way rather than as single or married. [edit]

No credible net-worth estimate exists for Alfredo Gaspar in Brazilian financial or celebrity-outlet reporting, and iFANN does not publish a figure for him. He is a salaried public official whose income comes from his congressional salary and, before that, from a career as a state prosecutor and two appointments as a state security secretary. Those are public-sector roles with published pay scales rather than equity or business holdings.

Brazilian federal deputies earn a fixed monthly salary set by Congress, and prosecutors in Alagoas are paid according to a state career ladder. Gaspar has not declared business interests, major real estate holdings, or investments in public reporting, and no asset declarations have been widely reported. Any dollar figure would be an unsupported projection, so the honest answer is that his net worth is not publicly estimated. [edit]