CANAL LIVRE | ROMEU ZEMA - 03/05/2026

"Hello, good evening to you."

"We are now starting another edition of Canal Livre Especial about the 2026 Electoral Race."

"To begin, putting on the air our trademark electoral coverage here at Band."

"Put on that soundtrack we're already used to."

"That's right, it's an election coverage year here at Band and today's guest has been betting his chips on a confrontation with the ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal); he even became the target of a request for investigation because of that."

"The program will also talk about the different right-wing candidacies presented so far and, of course, about the double defeat suffered by the government this week in the National Congress with the overruling of the veto on dosimetry."

"And the rejection of the name Jorge Messias, nominated to the Supreme Federal Tribunal by President Lula."

"To discuss these and many other topics, with us tonight is the former governor of Minas Gerais and pre-candidate for the presidency for Novo, Romeu Zema."

"Good evening, Governor."

"Thank you very much for being with us."

"Good evening, Adriana."

"Good evening to everyone who is watching us."

"It's a great pleasure to be here with you."

"The pleasure is ours, you know, Governor?"

"Joining me in this conversation are journalists Fernando Mitri, Sheila Magalhães and my colleague every night, Eduardo Oineg."

"Let's go together."

"Governor, to start this interview, I wanted to put on the air data from Band's partnership with Google about the searches... by the population, by people, for your name."

"There is the chart on screen now, folks."

"Look, we see that at the beginning of the year, Governor, searches for Romeu Zema on Google were low, they were small."

"And now, at the end of April, in the last days of April... A peak in searches for your name."

"This coincides precisely with the moment when, in your pre-campaign, you used a puppet theatre to call the ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) untouchable and to make very harsh criticisms of the Supreme Federal Tribunal."

"My question for you is: we already had, in the very recent past, a moment of direct confrontation between President Jair Bolsonaro and the Supreme Federal Tribunal."

"Do you think that the way to debate and discuss the role of the Supreme Federal Tribunal in our society..."

"Adriana, I have criticized everything that I see is wrong."

About: implement public spending controls and fiscal austerity policies

"Remembering that I don't criticize only the Supreme Federal Tribunal, I criticize Lula's wasteful spending, I criticize this government that takes no measures regarding public security and I could not possibly remain silent."

"with regard to the absurdities that are happening in the Supreme Federal Tribunal."

About: investigate and punish corruption in public administration

"The Tayaiá resort is very poorly explained, a R$ 129 million contract with the wife of another minister, very poorly explained."

"I have always been a taxpayer."

"As governor... who I should even have received taxes, I was a voluntary governor, I donated everything, so I can say that my whole life in Brazil I paid taxes."

"And I think Brazilians who work hard, who get up early, who know this country has a future, all were outraged with everything that is happening today in Brasília, more specifically inside the Supreme Federal Tribunal."

About: investigate suspicions involving ministers of the Supreme Federal Tribunal

"It's an outrage that they are blocking any kind of investigation."

"I want to know who else gets contracts of that nature, because it's a slap in the face of the honest Brazilian."

"We are seeing politicians living in luxury and Brazilians living in garbage here in Brazil."

"I will not remain silent."

"And I think someone from Minas Gerais is a bit nonconformist, isn't he, Mitre?"

"Isn't he nonconformist?"

"We have a tradition."

"We have a tradition."

"We have already had Tiradentes, we have had others."

"I will not remain silent."