RONALDO CAIADO | BP NAS ELEIÇÕES

"Hello everyone, World Cup atmosphere, right?"

"We know that every year there is a World Cup there is also an election, and today Brasil Paralelo gives our kickoff to coverage of the 2026 elections."

"There's nothing better to start this coverage than to talk with the protagonists, the stars who will be on this election field."

"We're going to speak with Ronaldo Caiado, a pre-candidate for the presidency for PSD."

"We have here a schedule with other pre-candidates, we invited everyone, and we hope to be able to speak with all of them here and bring each one's vision for Brazil at this very important moment."

"I'm Renato Dias and here with me on the panel are Ricardo Gomes, whom you already know — Ricardo is a lawyer and executive director of Instituto Millennium — and also Samir Aji, who is debuting with us on this program; Samir is a lawyer, a former judge, believe it or not, and also a professor of rhetoric."

"Our guest, as I already said, Ronaldo Caiado."

"Governor, welcome to Brasil Paralelo."

"Thank you very much, Renato, Ricardo and Salmerage, for the opportunity to talk a little with you about a matter as significant as an election to the Presidency of the Republic."

"Of course we'll have races for senator, for federal and state deputy, and for governors, but without a doubt, today I believe that voters will pay more attention"

"to something that has been a continuation of the PT over five terms and the current situation the country is going through."

"I think the public will have a different outlook in this 2026 election."

"Very well, Governor."

"I'd like to start with the first topic, which may be Brazilians' biggest concern: public security."

"You have a success story in the state of Goiás as governor."

"We have some figures here."

"Cargo theft."

"Down 97% between 2018 and 2025 — that's the statistic we pulled."

"Vehicle theft, down 95%."

"Robbery of pedestrians, down 92%."

"In short, some very impressive statistics here."

"What worked in Goiás?"

"Look, it worked because when I took office, the state was in a situation of complete calamity."

"In other words, people couldn't have diesel cars."

"There were over 11,000 cars being stolen."

"You couldn't live on your rural property because it would be robbed or people would be kidnapped."

"Even the humblest person couldn't, the next morning, open their bakery at dawn."

"You couldn't take the bus or access the bus stop because it was being robbed."

"You couldn't spend a weekend away because your house would actually be robbed."

"Anyway."

"and you created a climate where the factions also set up that new cangaço system over the city: they seized towns, put people as part of their apparatus, used human shields on cars and traveled the streets — some of the greatest barbarities in the world."

"bank robberies, armored car robberies."

"so the population had already stopped believing."

"she, she would leap out of the daylight."

"the population — the vast majority — can't afford to buy an armored car, can't afford private security."

"but you'll say this: 'So it was just isolated cases, not many.'"

"You had the government blocked at the National Treasury, indebted; education collapsed; healthcare concentrated only in Goiânia, there was no regionalization of health; people died not from the accident but because of the distance to reach an ICU bed."

"So it was a true collapse in terms of the administration's loss of credibility with the population."

"As a doctor and surgeon that I am, you have to know how to make a diagnosis and know what the main issue is in a run-over patient."

"In that image, you have a state run over, fractured, bleeding — what do you do first?"