Daniela Lima e Fábio Zanini entrevistam Caiado sobre pré-candidatura à Presidência, eleições e mais

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"Hello, very good evening to everyone who is here with us on UOL: the UOL channel, our YouTube channel, and Folha de São Paulo."

"I'm Daniela Lima, and as always I'm very well accompanied by my colleague Fábio Zanini, editor-in-chief of the Painel column at Folha de São Paulo."

"And this is your Frente a Frente, an interview program created in a very rare initiative between Folha and UOL."

"which every week, every Monday, brings figures who shape the course of the political debate in Brazil."

"Today is no different; in fact, this is the first presidential pre-candidate we host here on Frente a Frente."

"The hopes of those who believe in, bet on, or root for a kind of third way rest on the figure seated here in front of me."

"Something more aligned with the center-right than the right that bears the face of Bolsonarism, as embodied by Flávio Bolsonaro."

"The man seated here in front of me left the state government that he led for two consecutive terms with approval above 80%, shows indicators that make his peers quite envious, and that helped compose the menu he will present to you in this presidential election."

"He was a senator, he was a deputy, he witnessed the constituent assembly, and he has already been a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic."

"The person here with us today, with me and with Fábio Zanini, is someone I now wish a very good evening."

"Good evening, Dani."

"How are you?"

"It's him, Ronaldo Caiado, governor."

"Welcome."

"Good evening, Daniela."

"Welcome to this program, Frente a Frente; a historic fact that I am the first pre-candidate to be interviewed."

About: restore economic growth

"This is the moment where I will be grilled by these stars of the press here, Dani, with that connection to the Center-West, and to tell you that I want, at such an opportune moment as this — let's make the most of this time — to be able to reach the society that expects a government that delivers results and does not just stay in shouting back and forth, and that we can give real hope to the people who so desire for Brazil to develop again."

"Governor, you are a figure who has been actively involved in politics?"

"over the last four decades, right?"

"And you were already a candidate for the Presidency at a particularly acute moment for Brazil."

"What did you see, what has changed in Brazil from '89 until now, 2026?"

"What did you see as different, both in the expectations of the population and in the politics you practiced so diligently in the National Congress and within your party as well?"

About: defend private enterprise and property rights as policy principles

"Daniela, I can tell you that I participated in the first election in Brazil in '89, when there was that enormous prejudice against free enterprise, the market economy, and the right to property."

About: defend the rights of rural producers

"At that time I was the only defender of the rural producer."

"At that time the rural producer was not seen as livestock, nor TEC, nor POP."

"He was, often, that's right, a demonized figure."

"And it was at that moment that I showed, as a physician, a surgeon, with a solid formation in my field, that the country's economy would have agriculture as its backbone."

"And I confronted, at that moment, when Lula created the MST, I created the ruralist movement in Brazil so that we could confront it in the constituent assembly, which was the great victory, the UDR."

About: guarantee property rights over agricultural production

"We managed to consolidate the right to property on productive lands."

"Unfortunately, to this day there are still remnants who insist on breaking the law in Brazil."

"But what I want to tell the voter is that in this 37-year period, the PT governed the country for 20 years."

"Or 18."

"That Dilma interlude."

"18."

"What PT brought was truly something that greatly disappointed Brazilians."

About: restore international respect and admiration for Brazil

"Brazil ceased to be an international reference."

About: restore economic growth

"Brazil stopped growing."

About: combat drug trafficking and crime

"Brazil gave room to criminality, gave room to drug trafficking."

About: combat corruption and illicit enrichment

"Today, a party that accumulates frequent scandals, corruption, illicit enrichment."