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"Good morning, Guilherme."

"Good morning, Paulo."

"Good morning, Laura."

"It's a great pleasure to be here once again, and good morning to everyone watching us."

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."

"I wanted to start... I'm looking back at what you've done since you took office in Minas in 2019."

"Are you leaving with the mission accomplished—50% of it, 80% of it?"

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?"

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."

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."

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."

"We have made progress."

"I'm not saying the State is perfect, no."

About: create formal jobs

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

About: attract investors and stimulate an investment climate

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

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."

"My administration was a very difficult one."

About: improve state public finances

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

About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects

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

About: expand the metro network

"Look at the metro expansion after 23 years."

"And I never promised a metro, no."

About: expand the metro network

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

About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects

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

About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects

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

About: increase investment in public infrastructure

"And with detail — with funds reserved for completion."

About: build and fund a ring road to relieve urban traffic

"Rodoanel Metropolitano, there it is."

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."

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."

About: pave state roads and build bridges

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

About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects

"That in the past was promised and never done."

About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects

"And I, who never promised, am delivering."

"So that's a very big difference."

About: continue executing long-term structural projects

"I'm very happy to see Minas' progress, but we still have a lot to do ahead."

"Matheus Simões has great challenges."

"But he's got the train on the tracks and is already prospering."

"And I picked up the train from the bottom of the ocean and had to take it out and fix it."

"So, Minas has improved and will continue to do so."

"All those projects I mentioned, Guilherme, are long-term, structural projects."

"So, as these are implemented and delivered, the State will keep improving."

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."