"NENHUM pré-candidato tem CORAGEM DE FALAR O QUE EU FALO" | Romeu Zema na 98 News
Debate with Romeu Zema · 82 statements transcribed and classified · about infrastructure and sanitation, electoral strategy, state public debt, fiscal transparency. Click a statement to hear that moment in the video.
"NENHUM pré-candidato tem CORAGEM DE FALAR O QUE EU FALO" | Romeu Zema na 98 News
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Desconhecido
About: run for the presidency
"Governor, you are already in the final stretch of your second term and are also preparing to leave the government for your presidential pre-campaign."
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: ensure continuity of state government projects
"What still remains to be done and what will be left for Vice-Governor Matheus Simões at the end of the year?"
- For
Romeu Zema
About: implement changes in the management of the State of São Paulo
"Well, Guilherme... I am handing over to Vice-Governor Matheus Simões, within 40 days, a State much better than the one I received from Pimentel PT (Workers' Party) seven years and two months ago."
- Neutral
Romeu Zema
About: ensure timely payroll payments and transfers to municipalities
"I should recall that the accounts were completely overdue, public employees didn't know when or if they would receive their 13th salary."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: ensure timely payroll payments and transfers to municipalities
"Mayors weren't receiving transfers for ICMS or IPVA, nor for Education or Health; there was a huge graveyard of abandoned, vandalized public works, and that's in the past now."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: create formal jobs
"But major advances were made: one million formal jobs created."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: attract investors and stimulate an investment climate
"More than 100 billion dollars in private investment, 530 billion reais."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: adhere to Propag to restructure the state debt
"And today Minas Gerais, in addition to having the accounts up to date, has already joined Propag, which means that the next governors will not govern with a noose around their necks, as I had to."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: improve state public finances
"A government that paid debts, put the house in order — so it wasn't an easy government."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects
"And they're going to hand him a large construction site already underway."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: expand the metro network
"Look at the metro expansion after 23 years."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: expand the metro network
"And there it is: we've already delivered one station and there are six more stations ahead."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects
"And in the past you know there were people who promised and never delivered."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects
"I did the opposite: I didn't promise and I'm delivering."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: increase investment in public infrastructure
"And with detail — with funds reserved for completion."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: build and fund a ring road to relieve urban traffic
"Already granted, just waiting for the environmental license; 5 billion deposited in an account for the work, regardless of the election, the State's financial condition, or the political scenario — it will come off the drawing board."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: duplicate and revitalize state highways
"The duplication for Belo Horizonte, Ouro Preto and Mariana, the same thing granted; there is 1.5 billion deposited for the execution of that work as well."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: pave state roads and build bridges
"Duplication for Brumadinho and many others, two bridges over the São Francisco River that are under construction."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects
"That in the past was promised and never done."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: continue executing long-term structural projects
"I'm very happy to see Minas' progress, but we still have a lot to do ahead."
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: reduce public debt
"Governor, despite this scenario of execution, of transformation of what you received — because you are delivering — Minas still has a quite complicated situation regarding its debt and its management."
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: reduce public debt
"It is inherited and transformed, but it's a rather complicated situation."
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: start an electoral campaign
"Governor Matheus Simões has a big challenge, which is preparing to be elected."
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: ensure fiscal responsibility during government transitions
"To have a healthy government so that he can, from a financial point of view, govern, or else hand over the State in conditions that the next governor can receive it and also have governability."
- Neutral
Romeu Zema
About: reduce public debt
"Paulo, Minas' big problem is the debt."
- Neutral
Romeu Zema
About: reduce public debt
"We're talking about 180 billion reais."
- Against
Romeu Zema
About: maintain monetary policy with high interest rates
"You must be enjoying those high interest rates under Lula, huh?"
- Neutral
Romeu Zema
About: reduce public debt
"But Minas' debt really is a big problem, and the high interest rates in Brazil make that debt even worse."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: adhere to Propag to restructure the state debt
"But with adherence to Propag, Paulo, I'm not going to say we'll have paradise, no, but we'll be in a much better position, because Propag foresees an adjustment of the debt practically by inflation plus 1% per year."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: adhere to Propag to restructure the state debt
"Now, with Propag, we'll have relief."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: link collection of state debt to a percentage of revenue
"Ideally the federal government would charge Minas a percentage of our revenue and not some other unlinked value, because tomorrow there could be a mismatch again."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: support and give political backing to Vice-Governor Matheus Simões
"Matheus is an excellent manager, he has my full support, he's my right-hand man and I'm sure he'll do everything necessary to make it viable."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: implement changes in the management of the State of São Paulo
"The situation has already improved in these seven years and two months of our administration."
- Neutral
Romeu Zema
About: improve state public finances
"Today the State's ability to pay, Paulo, is much better than it was seven years and two months ago."
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: increase public servants' salaries when necessary
"Governor, since you mentioned Propag, at times you linked adherence to Propag to being able to consider pay raises and salary recomposition for public servants here in Minas."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: increase public servants' salaries when necessary
"We gave raises over these years where it was possible."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: increase public servants' salaries when necessary
"I said, what we can give as a raise is what was given on that occasion: 10%."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: prioritize fiscal responsibility over reelection
"I said, I'd rather hand over an organized State to my successor, not being re-elected."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: pursue a policy of fiscal austerity
"But I, as I said, am very confident that Matheus... will continue with this austerity work, will give a raise this year — we've already discussed it, we'll have a raise there; maybe it won't be every public employee's dream, but we'll do what is within our reach."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: comply with the Fiscal Responsibility Law in state public management
"And also remembering, Laura, a very important matter: there is the fiscal responsibility law, which was not complied with in the past, but I... am a law-abiding person."
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