SAMARA MARTINS (UP) | CAFÉ NAS ELEIÇÕES #028

About: guarantee equal access to media and publicity spaces for pre-candidacies

"And I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you for the space, which for us at Unidade Popular these spaces are very precious, because we haven't had much room in the traditional media to present our platform—especially in this contest that seems to have only two presidential hopefuls, two pre-candidates—so being able to have space to present our program and our proposals is very important, so I already thank you for the space given to us."

About: run for the presidency

"It's the second time we've put forward our ticket for... for the presidential candidacy."

About: guarantee political representation of Black women in institutions

"And now our idea was to put forward a working woman, a Black woman, because that's the face of the Brazilian people."

About: lead a national effort to combat violence against women

"where violence against women is enormous, we are living an epidemic of femicide, of violence against women, where four women die in our country as victims of femicide, where every six minutes a woman is raped in our country,"

About: increase female participation in activism and party membership

"Having a single female pre-candidate for president is something that is very bad, because women should be in the spaces of power and decision in this country, because they live all these ills of capitalist society."

About: increase female participation in activism and party membership

"And we at Unidade Popular have argued that women need to be in these spaces."

About: reduce weekly working hours

"So, even when we now discuss... reducing working hours, and there are even sectors further to the right, the far right, defending even 52-hour workweeks."

About: reduce weekly working hours

"We, women, already work more than 60 hours a week when you add what we do as formal workers and as domestic workers."

About: encourage women's membership and mobilization for the party

"And that's why we've been running a campaign, 'Women, take a stand,' calling for women to join Unidade Popular."

About: expand childcare policies and family support

"And for capitalism it's great that they do it, because then you don't need daycare, you don't need a community cafeteria, you don't need a community laundry, if women do it for free."

About: approve measures that protect women against violence

"Because then they decide in Brasília about us, about our bodies, about our lives, including now in a debate about misogyny, saying 'no, they can't,' because they think that in fact women can be made inferior in our country, can be violated in various ways in our country, turned into an object, into private property."

About: expand childcare policies and family support

"Not only to have women come, but to create daycare spaces so that the children are also cared for in that space, because where will the children stay?"

About: implement a socialist program of economic and social policies

"We have been saying everywhere that we have a socialist program for Brazil and also a socialist program for the states."

About: prioritize social investments in the federal budget instead of paying interest and debt service

"So we have almost 30% of the 2026 budget already proposed to be paid on public debt, which goes to bankers, which goes to speculators, while you have less than 4% for education, for health, for social areas."

About: increase funding for income transfer programs (Bolsa Família)

"And in that discussion, including what happened now, whether it's Bolsa Família, we have said that for the 'Bolsa Banqueiro', only in 2025 it was 42% of the budget."

About: increase the minimum wage by 100%

"When we propose increasing the minimum wage by 100%, when we support this discussion of reducing working hours to end the 6x1 schedule, this is allied with having... income for our people."

About: increase the value of the social benefit (Auxílio Brasil/Bolsa Família)

"And then the answer cannot be to give people more credit, it is to give more income."

About: suspend public debt payments and carry out a debt audit

"But measures are needed, which are this: suspension of public debt payments, an audit, which is already a constitutional prerogative, but which we have never even raised the possibility of doing."

About: repeal the spending cap (PEC 95)

"It is to overthrow the fiscal framework, which when it was in the time of Michel Temer, and in the previous government of Bolsonaro, it was the spending cap."

About: hold a state convention to define candidacies for governor and the Senate

"Yes, at Unidade Popular we have this very collective construction."

About: present full slates in the states with candidates for all offices

"Of course the National Directory, which is not only me, but the National Directory also positions itself on our slates in the states and in most states we will have full slates with the state deputy, with the federal deputy, with the senator and also my pre-candidacy for the presidency to be able to present our program in the states as well."

About: reform electoral rules to make the process more democratic and equal

"Although called the elections the 'festival of democracy', it is an extremely undemocratic process."

About: ensure equal funding and TV/radio airtime among candidates

"We don't have television airtime, we don't have radio airtime, we don't have party funding because of that barrier clause you put in, which stipulates that only those who have elected federal deputies will receive all those allocations."

About: elect the party's federal deputies

"We believe it's possible for us to elect our first federal deputy; in fact we're in that campaign, including saying 'get to know Unidade Popular, get to know Unidade Popular's pre-candidates,' because if the people want to elect someone from Unidade Popular, they can."

About: require legislators to use public health and education services

"If you don't want to be a parliamentarian and want to keep using your health plan, your private school, fine."

About: ensure governability through allied legislative support

"Because a large part of the left thought that making agreements, including with sectors that aren't left, is necessary to stay in power, to guarantee governability."

About: ensure governability through allied legislative support

"We believe that popular strength is what is capable of guaranteeing governability."

About: approve proposals that shield parliamentarians from investigation and accountability

"For example... they were there trying to approve the shielding PEC, which we called banditry, which was meant to shield them from the crimes they commit."

About: investigate and hold accountable appointments that favored corruption

"And they do commit them, as we've seen, the Banco Master scandal, the INSS scandal, and they go about protecting themselves in institutional spaces as well."

About: organize popular demonstrations against governments or corrupt acts

"The people took to the streets and said this is an outrage."

About: combat corruption and impunity

"We will not cover up corruption."

About: increase transparency of public administration

"which is what they've been doing with our money."

About: investigate and punish corruption and recover public funds

"Each corruption scandal involves millions, billions in sums we can't even imagine."

About: criminalize abortion

"With the bill on rape, which even condemned girls and women who had the right to legal abortion, women went to the streets and said, this cannot pass."

About: adopt the 6x1 shift

"In the same way, now approving in the Chamber of Deputies, and the fight still continues, because it goes to the Senate, against the 6x1 work schedule."

About: guarantee approval of popular proposals in the National Congress through popular mobilization

"If it's not the mobilization of the people to secure that approval in the Chamber of Deputies, in the Senate, in Congress, which we've called a Congress hostile to the people, if it's not the people organized to put this on the agenda there, we won't succeed, because those agreements with those sectors, with the sectors that defended the impeachment, with the sectors that defend, even in the international arena,"

About: negotiate an agreement with the United States government

"U.S. imperialism, which has even invaded countries, killed people, a genocidal government, those agreements do not serve our people."

About: align presidential candidacies with the United States/Trump

"Because we are now seeing several of the main presidential pre-candidates trying to compete over who is more friendly with Trump."

About: align candidacies with Trump/the US

"A figure who today represents extreme capitalism in our country, who is not coming to Brazil to defend the ending of narcotrafficking."

About: investigate foreign countries' involvement in drug trafficking

"Because the United States is the country that profits the most from the drug trade in the world."