Debate1st round · August 17, 2026· SBT

Marçal fala sobre chance de manter candidatura | #PoderExpresso

Debate with Pablo Marçal · 32 statements transcribed and classified · about electoral process, presidential elections, national security, campaign financing. Click a statement to hear that moment in the video.

O empresário e influenciador Pablo Marçal (PRTB) afirmou nesta terça-feira (18), em entrevista ao SBT News, que pretende manter a candidatura à Presidência da República até o fim, mesmo diante das decisões que o tornaram inelegível. Saiba todos os detalhes no Poder Expresso.

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  1. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: Run a presidential candidacy to strengthen the party and increase its caucus

    "We are on Poder Expresso, the program's final hour, and we are going to talk now about the election, because in the last minutes of the deadline to register candidacies, last Saturday, the businessman and influencer Pablo Marçal, of PRTB, appeared in the Electoral Court's system as a presidential hopeful."
    Electoral ProcessView this statement
  2. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: declare candidates with electoral convictions ineligible

    "Marçal, however, is ineligible due to three different convictions here from the São Paulo Regional Electoral Court."
    Electoral ProcessView this statement
  3. Pablo Marçal

    Neutral

    About: ensure two-instance appeals in electoral cases

    "The ineligibility is at the TRE and there are two more levels of appeal."
  4. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: Judge candidates' ineligibilities swiftly and impartially

    "But a response about your ineligibility should come."
    Electoral Process
  5. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: Judge candidates' ineligibilities swiftly and impartially

    "Did you report that the TSE opened the ineligibility?"
  6. Pablo Marçal

    Neutral

    About: accelerate pending rulings in electoral cases

    "That they have been holding since 2021; when I stepped in now over the weekend, things that had been stalled since 2021 started to accelerate."
  7. Pablo Marçal

    Neutral

    About: decide candidacies within the established deadline

    "What happens is this: by September 13 it'll be judged, so no one has been validated yet."
  8. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: investigate collusion between political parties and criminal factions

    "In 2024 we had reports, including Folha de São Paulo and other news outlets, about suspicions of a link between your current running mate, whom you presented in the candidacy, Leonardo Avalanche, and the PCC."
    National SecurityView this statement
  9. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: reduce homicides and combat organized crime

    "My question is the following: you even filed your government program proposing to combat criminal factions."
    National SecurityView this statement
  10. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: not grant unconditional support to people suspected of criminal ties

    "How do you intend to do that, returning to that party, and are you giving a blank check to these people?"
    National SecurityView this statement
  11. Pablo Marçal

    Neutral

    About: investigate parties' payments to media outlets

    "Here in Brazil it's the following: you are not manipulated by the big parties; the media is used and very well paid to go around destroying people's reputations."
    Media and PoliticsPablo's profile
  12. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: allow candidacy without party affiliation

    "My dream is that any candidate runs without a political party."
  13. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: Judge candidates' ineligibilities swiftly and impartially

    "Why is there no one from the left who is ineligible?"
  14. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: conduct a broad, independent investigation by competent institutions

    "Brazil's greatest legal uncertainty is keeping President Lula as president."
    InstitutionsPablo's profile
  15. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: investigate use of public funds at official events

    "He spent public money at Carnival. You'll see they'll make a little move and you won't even be outraged in your reporting."
  16. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: end cycle of left-leaning governments

    "We have to break a damned cycle called the Party of Darkness."
  17. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: reduce public spending

    "Our debt is 81.6% of GDP."
    Monetary PolicyPablo's profile
  18. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: prohibit use of public funds for early campaign purposes

    "I don't have a public contract, I won't use public money, I won't use even a second of your television, nor anyone else's."
  19. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: run for elective office

    "I consider myself the next president of Brazil."
  20. Pablo Marçal

    Neutral

    About: finance own campaign with personal funds

    "I have the money to bankroll the presidential campaign."
  21. Pablo Marçal

    Against

    About: finance own campaign with personal funds

    "I'm not going to put a single real of mine in, because whoever puts their own money is using their fallback funds."
  22. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: preserve the balance of public finances

    "Brazil will go bankrupt if you don't wake up."
    Monetary PolicyPablo's profile
  23. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: authorize police use of lethal force against armed criminals

    "Then they say here we abort people, but you can't kill a criminal who has a rifle in his hand."
  24. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: defeat PT

    "We have to take Brazil out of the hands of the PT."
  25. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: ensure candidates can run even when improper affiliations are being investigated

    "You should be outraged: why am I ineligible when there's no materiality; this is political pressure from parties of the left, center and right."
    Electoral ProcessPablo's profile
  26. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality

    "And you keep thinking that the judiciary is not being pressured to stop me."
    JudiciaryPablo's profile
  27. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: annul the vote (cast a null ballot)

    "If you, Brazilian, don't get outraged, wait for the 4th, go there and shit on the ballot again."
  28. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: improve management incentives in state-owned companies

    "For those offended that I said the PT is fucking Brazil, just look at Correios' losses."
    State-owned companiesPablo's profile
  29. Pablo Marçal

    Neutral

    About: evaluate the financial performance of state-owned companies

    "Correios is a public company without competition with 12 billion in losses."
  30. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: restore fiscal responsibility and public management

    "This one has a 10 trillion hole in public debt and a cash shortfall of almost 100 billion again."
  31. Pablo Marçal

    For

    About: defeat PT

    "And you can count on me that I came in with an iron shield, a gold one, anything to... Remove the worst government in this country's history."
  32. Desconhecido

    Against

    About: annul the vote (cast a null ballot)

    "And I hope you don't shit on the ballot on the 4th."
    Presidential ElectionsView this statement

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