Debate1st round · January 31, 2026· Entre Visões

LULA É O MAIOR INIMIGO DO POBRE E ROMEU ZEMA TE PROVA ISSO | Romeu Zema no Programa Entrevisões

Debate with Romeu Zema · 68 statements transcribed and classified · about public service, environment and renewable energy, judiciary / anti-corruption, amnesty and jan 8 characterization. Click a statement to hear that moment in the video.

LULA É O MAIOR INIMIGO DO POBRE E ROMEU ZEMA TE PROVA ISSO | Romeu Zema no Programa Entrevisões

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  1. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: apply penalties to companies responsible for environmental disasters and use funds to repair damages

    "and also to punish the company that caused that tragedy."
  2. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: apply penalties to companies responsible for environmental disasters and use funds to repair damages

    "And on that occasion, we imposed the largest penalty applied in Brazil up to that time, in the amount of 37 billion reais, and all of that sum has been used either to compensate the victims, those affected, or... for works to compensate the people of Minas who suffered so much."
  3. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: strengthen safety and prevent dam failures

    "But perhaps the greatest advance, Lorenzo, was in the change in legislation that we promoted, so that that type of tragedy never happens again in Minas Gerais."
  4. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: strengthen safety and prevent dam failures

    "Because when something similar happened in 2015, under the PT government in Minas Gerais, which was the tragedy of Mariano, they did nothing to change that scenario."
  5. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: strengthen safety and prevent dam failures

    "And with each passing day, Lourenço, the risk decreases, because we are dismantling all the dams that pose a risk."
  6. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: strengthen safety and prevent dam failures

    "Of the 54 that posed some type of risk, they are already completely decommissioned, dismantled."
  7. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: strengthen safety and prevent dam failures

    "So, I hope that Minas Gerais will be definitively free from this type of risk."
  8. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: regularize payment of public servants and state transfers

    "In two months, I hand over the state government to the vice-governor and a state much better than the one I received seven years ago, which was in a chaotic situation: public servants received salary in installments, didn't receive the 13th salary, mayors committing suicide, falling ill, resigning, because they didn't receive the transfers from the state government."
  9. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: invest in paving and rehabilitation of state roads and public transport

    "These are, in fact, the largest projects of recent decades, such as the expansion of the Belo Horizonte metro, the metropolitan ring, the metropolitan beltway (rodoanel), both of which are extremely important for mobility."
  10. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: expand the public healthcare network

    "Five large regional hospitals in the interior of the state to decentralize healthcare."
  11. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: improve school meals

    "So, a state that has regained the pride of the people of Minas and has smaller things that also make me very proud, like school meals."
    EducationRomeu's profileView this statement
  12. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: create formal jobs

    "And another thing that gives me a lot of satisfaction is the one million formal jobs we created."
  13. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: promote economic growth in Minas Gerais

    "In other words, we are doing work above the national average."
  14. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: reduce government spending

    "We have a structural problem in Brazil, which is a central state, in this case the federal government, that has spent every year more than it collects in revenue."
  15. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: reduce government spending

    "When the federal government does this, and Lula has been doing this with great intensity, unfortunately he is arming a time bomb."
  16. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: simplify rules for entrepreneurs and investors

    "That is without mentioning the tax, legal and labor complications that we have here."
    Business EnvironmentRomeu's profile
  17. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: reduce the rate of the new VAT provided in the tax reform

    "Now I have great concern that the rate that was defined will be very heavy and will end up weighing on Brazilians' wallets."
  18. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: implement tax reform to rebalance burdens between sectors and reduce taxes on investment and exports

    "But, Zema... Despite that, it's widely discussed in the business community that the IVA, the Value-Added Tax, which will be, in principle, one of the few taxes that will remain after full implementation of the tax reform, will still be the largest tax in the world here in Brazil."
    Fiscal Reform
  19. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: modernize labor legislation and work regulation

    "But we also have to look at the labor issue, which is often a nightmare, and the environmental issue, which often makes the implementation of several industries unfeasible."
  20. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: attract private investment

    "So much so that we created 1 million formal jobs and brought to Minas more than half a trillion in private investments."
  21. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: hold selection processes to appoint secretaries and public managers

    "So we created Transforma Minas, which still operates so that anyone who comes to work in a management position, in a leadership position, must necessarily go through a selection process."
  22. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector

    "I am proud to say, Lourenço, that despite the State having more than 300 thousand public servants working, I don't have a relative, I don't have a godson inside the public machine."
  23. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: reduce the number of ministries

    "Brazil is the country in the world with the most ministries."
  24. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector

    "and the vast majority are occupied by people who do not have the proper capacity and competence."
  25. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector

    "And you know, if Brazil wants to have a chance to win a World Cup, it has to send a star team."
    Public ServiceRomeu's profile
  26. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector

    "If it sends a team of relatives and cronies, I'm sure it will finish among the last placed."
  27. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector

    "And that's what has happened many times in our politics, unfortunately."
    Public ServiceRomeu's profile
  28. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending

    "he said that, despite Minas Gerais being the second most populous state in Brazil, it is the state that has the fewest secretariats aiming to trim public spending, reduce spending to attract investment to Minas Gerais."
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  29. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: reduce the number of federal ministries

    "that Brazil can replicate the model that Argentina is applying as law, bearing in mind also that it reduced to a record number the number of secretariats and ministries in our neighboring country, Argentina?"
    Political Reform
  30. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending

    "And, in a way, we did that in Minas Gerais, as I said, it is the state with the fewest secretariats in Brazil."
  31. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending

    "And as governor, Lorenzo, I also made a point of setting an example."
  32. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending

    "I live in a house that I rent in Belo Horizonte, since I am from the interior of the State."
  33. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending

    "I have a maid whom I also pay out of my own pocket."
  34. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending

    "And the former governor, who was from PT, lived in a palace."
  35. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending

    "He had 32 maids, waiters, housekeepers, cooks, to be able to attend to him."
    Public ServiceRomeu's profile
  36. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending

    "Just on that I must be saving one, two, three million reais a year for the government's coffers."
  37. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending

    "And before, sometimes one plane and one helicopter would go to be able to provide support to the former governors."
  38. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending

    "Since the start of my administration, Lourenço, we have already been able to trim the State's machinery, the state-owned companies,"
  39. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending

    "and also the autonomous agencies by more than 50 thousand positions."
  40. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending

    "It's a lot of what we've done, and all of that, I remind you, while improving public service."

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