Debate1st round · February 20, 2026· 98 News

"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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82 statements
  1. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    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."
    Electoral StrategyView this statement
  2. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    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?"
    State policy
  3. Romeu Zema

    For

    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."
  4. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    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."
    Public BudgetRomeu's profile
  5. Romeu Zema

    For

    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."
  6. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: create formal jobs

    "But major advances were made: one million formal jobs created."
  7. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: attract investors and stimulate an investment climate

    "More than 100 billion dollars in private investment, 530 billion reais."
  8. Romeu Zema

    For

    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."
  9. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: improve state public finances

    "A government that paid debts, put the house in order — so it wasn't an easy government."
  10. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects

    "And they're going to hand him a large construction site already underway."
  11. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: expand the metro network

    "Look at the metro expansion after 23 years."
  12. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: expand the metro network

    "And there it is: we've already delivered one station and there are six more stations ahead."
  13. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects

    "And in the past you know there were people who promised and never delivered."
  14. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects

    "I did the opposite: I didn't promise and I'm delivering."
  15. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: increase investment in public infrastructure

    "And with detail — with funds reserved for completion."
  16. Romeu Zema

    For

    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."
  17. Romeu Zema

    For

    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."
  18. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: pave state roads and build bridges

    "Duplication for Brumadinho and many others, two bridges over the São Francisco River that are under construction."
  19. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects

    "That in the past was promised and never done."
  20. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: continue executing long-term structural projects

    "I'm very happy to see Minas' progress, but we still have a lot to do ahead."
    State policyRomeu's profile
  21. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    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."
    State public debt
  22. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: reduce public debt

    "It is inherited and transformed, but it's a rather complicated situation."
    State public debt
  23. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: start an electoral campaign

    "Governor Matheus Simões has a big challenge, which is preparing to be elected."
    Electoral Strategy
  24. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    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."
    Public Budget
  25. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: reduce public debt

    "Paulo, Minas' big problem is the debt."
  26. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: reduce public debt

    "We're talking about 180 billion reais."
    State public debtRomeu's profile
  27. Romeu Zema

    Against

    About: maintain monetary policy with high interest rates

    "You must be enjoying those high interest rates under Lula, huh?"
    Monetary PolicyRomeu's profile
  28. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: reduce public debt

    "But Minas' debt really is a big problem, and the high interest rates in Brazil make that debt even worse."
    State public debtRomeu's profile
  29. Romeu Zema

    For

    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."
  30. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: adhere to Propag to restructure the state debt

    "Now, with Propag, we'll have relief."
  31. Romeu Zema

    For

    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."
  32. Romeu Zema

    For

    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."
  33. Romeu Zema

    For

    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."
    State policyRomeu's profile
  34. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    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."
    Public BudgetRomeu's profile
  35. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    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."
    Salary Policy
  36. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: increase public servants' salaries when necessary

    "We gave raises over these years where it was possible."
  37. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: increase public servants' salaries when necessary

    "I said, what we can give as a raise is what was given on that occasion: 10%."
  38. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: prioritize fiscal responsibility over reelection

    "I said, I'd rather hand over an organized State to my successor, not being re-elected."
  39. Romeu Zema

    For

    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."
  40. Romeu Zema

    For

    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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