Renan Santos in the 2026 Election: debates and Q&A sessions

"I would never give up anything in my campaign to take part in anything involving that man."

"Tá achando que vai comprar o voto do pobre, dando mais 90 reais por mês pro pobre?"

"É um fenômeno mal-sucedido, é um fenômeno que apenas está diante do divisionismo e está se aprofundando numa histeria."

"O que eu proponho é um modelo que tem nos países mais desenvolvidos do mundo, que envolve venda da hora de trabalho, você combina seu trabalho por hora, você tem flexibilidade para montar sua escala de trabalho, quem quer trabalhar mais, trabalha mais, quem quer trabalhar menos, trabalha menos."

"It's not. The BPC and the minimum wage — increasing pensions based on the minimum wage — doesn't make the people who receive these benefits more able to buy things, because the opposite effect that this generates is an increase in public spending."

"O Brasil tem que ter uma estatal própria que cuide da temática do petróleo e sem prejuízo de ter mais empresas privadas atuando de maneira concorrencial na exploração e no refino."

"I'm going to bring up an element here that refutes the quota policy."

"Aí entra o fim das cotas raciais, que acho que é uma coisa que não tem que ter."

"O cara que está agora em terceiro, de acordo com as pesquisas de sério hoje, que parece um filme psicodélico, é o Augusto Cury, que está propondo, sei lá, drones para derrotar o feminicídio."

"Esse é um problema dramático, vindo de uma medida populista, de um presidente da república que está tentando recuperar."

"An example we respect of the federative principle is that there was a recent vote in which the Lula government wanted to vest the federal government with more powers over the formulation of public security policies in the states."

"Second point, about indexations and linkages: those are terms very complicated to bring into public debate, but the reality is the following: only Brazil... among developing and developed nations — let's put them together — practices this kind of fiscal policy which is suicidal."

"Vai custar mais de 100 bilhões de reais por ano para fazer essa brincadeira imbecil?"

"Then people say, 'no, no, I'll sell Petrobras, I'll sell it, I'll allow other nations to make our energy policies.'"

"The other candidate who is there in second in the polls, promised to do a reform, a fiscal adjustment based on extraordinary revenues."

"One: the very idea of not imprisoning, or the idea of trying to rehabilitate a person who has a sentence for a violent crime, is a wrong idea."

"Meu nome é Renan e eu sou candidato, a partir de domingo, à presidência da República."

"If a decision comes from the STF, it's not that I will... I'll simply not comply."

"But regarding ultra-processed products, I don't think the State has the right to interfere in the life of the Brazilian citizen in that way, to set such a prohibitive rate that prevents someone from eating a hot dog, if they want, or a loaf of sliced bread that is considered an ultra-processed product, because it goes through many stages before it reaches the consumer shelf."

"I think the employee won't be benefited, he'll keep working six for one, simply because it's not possible in a country that's getting poorer, which is the case of Brazil, to reduce working hours and increase the value paid for that hour of work."

"No, it's strategic. Now, Petrobras, in a world that's heading toward this natural resources crisis, but no way."

"I don't believe in pure district voting, because pure district voting in Brazil is merely the empowerment of the centrão."