Q&A session1st round · September 2, 2026· Inteligência Ltda

SABATINA: ROMEU ZEMA - Inteligência Ltda. Podcast #1923

Q&A session with Romeu Zema · 268 statements transcribed and classified · about public health / public safety, monetary policy, combating impunity, tax privileges. Click a statement to hear that moment in the video.

ROMEU ZEMA é candidato à presidência do Brasil. Ele vai participar de uma sabatina, respondendo perguntas de jornalistas, especialistas e, claro, do Vilela e do chat. O Vilela disse que não vai ser candidato à presidência por falta de vontade.

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6
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268 statements
  1. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: recover public services and state finances

    "I took over a broken, bankrupt, ruined state that paid salaries and pensions in three installments and... Five months ago I handed over a tidy state to my successor, with the accounts in order; what was a graveyard of abandoned, unfinished works is today a large construction site under way."
  2. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: expand the public healthcare network

    "And one of the things I am most proud of is how much we improved healthcare in Minas."
  3. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: expand the public healthcare network

    "More than 400 UBS, Basic Health Units."
  4. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: improve the quality of education

    "We improved education, the school meals and, of course, the security indicators."
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  5. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: stimulate economic activity

    "IBGE indicated that during the Zema government the flow was the opposite, Brazilians moving to Minas Gerais."
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  6. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: combat corruption and impunity

    "Vilela, those who follow me know that it's probably been a year since I've been fighting these untouchables."
  7. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: investigate and punish abuse of authority by members of the Judiciary

    "If a first-instance judge had done what this gentleman Alexandre de Moraes did, that judge could never continue performing his function."
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  8. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: investigate and punish abuse of authority by members of the Judiciary

    "For me, this is not just a case of expelling him, no."
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  9. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: investigate and punish corruption in public administration

    "He even wanted to arrange a contract for his wife, just because of his position, because nobody gets that kind of contract in Brazil, in the amount of 129 million."
  10. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: investigate and punish corruption in public administration

    "That it was on his computer that the contract was."
  11. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: investigate the use of intermediaries tied to politicians in contracts

    "Calls from the biggest criminal banker in history, Daniel Vorcaro."
  12. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: combat corruption and impunity

    "And what I did in Minas was that."
  13. Romeu Zema

    Against

    About: reelection of the President of the Senate

    "And I'm rooting for that president not to be re-elected."
  14. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: open impeachment proceedings against STF ministers

    "And there's no other route but the Senate for impeachment."
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  15. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: renew the composition of the Senate

    "And I'm confident we'll have a good renewal in the Senate on October 4th."
  16. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: investigate irregularities and transfers involving Banco Master

    "His state's pension fund was one of those that did business with Banco Master."
  17. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: investigate and hold those involved in financial scandals accountable

    "But the sold-out politicians, who appoint the board of directors, those profited in some way to put their money, my money and that of those following us here and there."
  18. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: preserve and recover the credibility of the Judiciary

    "And then they take up the issue of Justice André Mendonça, whom I... I respect and admire."
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  19. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: treat STF ministers as untouchable

    "And then he met with the criminal banker in an institutional capacity."
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  20. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: preserve and recover the credibility of the Judiciary

    "André Mendonça is another level, far superior to those who took a free ride."
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  21. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: develop a local mining and processing chain for rare earths

    "Ninety percent of rare earths processing today is done in China."
  22. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: present a public government plan

    "What you can't have is no plan."
  23. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: present a public government plan

    "You may not agree with their plan, but they have to have a plan."
  24. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: carry out mineral processing and beneficiation in Brazil

    "Vilela, I always like to say that rare earths here in Brazil need to follow a path similar to the one Brazil followed and was very successful at, which is the case of niobium."
  25. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: carry out mineral processing and beneficiation in Brazil

    "So I say that mastering the technology is fundamental, because Brazil cannot continue making the same mistakes of the past, as still happens with mining, which I am sad to see, with iron ore."
  26. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: carry out mineral processing and beneficiation in Brazil

    "Iron ore in Minas undergoes beneficiation and is exported with little added value."
  27. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: carry out mineral processing and beneficiation in Brazil

    "So, for me, that's not the way."
  28. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: ensure legal certainty for extraction and processing of minerals in Brazil

    "The way is for us to provide full legal security to whoever is extracting."
  29. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: coordinate federal universities for applied research on strategic minerals

    "For whoever is processing, industrializing rare earths here in Brazil, involve the federal universities to help with research."
  30. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: coordinate federal universities for applied research on strategic minerals

    "That was done in the case of niobium; federal universities also participated."
  31. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: offer public financing for strategic industrial projects

    "If it's a solid project that stands on its own, the government has to step in as a financing agent."
  32. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: promote development of a national value chain for energy and mining

    "So I say that the path rare earths will follow is the same that lithium has also followed in Minas Gerais — for those who don't know, during my tenure as governor we created the Vale do Lítio (Lithium Valley)."
  33. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: build an industrial mineral processing park in the Vale do Jequitinhonha

    "During my administration, we brought several lithium companies to that region, to the Vale do Jequitinhonha, which created thousands of direct and indirect jobs."
  34. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: build an industrial mineral processing park in the Vale do Jequitinhonha

    "And that region, which was the least developed in Minas, was the one that grew the most."
  35. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: build an industrial mineral processing park in the Vale do Jequitinhonha

    "In job openings, in job generation, proportionally to the population in the last five or six years."
  36. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: promote development of a national value chain for energy and mining

    "And to add value to the companies that are there in the Lithium Valley, in the Vale do Jequitinhonha."
  37. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: promote development of a national value chain for energy and mining

    "To have the commitment to, over time, keep adding value until we reach a battery, which is the product with the highest added value, in the case of lithium."
  38. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: strengthen oversight and accountability for environmental crimes

    "And remembering that all environmental care has been taken; the companies... are subjected to the same scrutiny."
  39. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: strengthen oversight and accountability for environmental crimes

    "Recall that I was the governor, Vilela, who faced the last major environmental disaster in Minas, which was the Brumadinho tragedy, which happened in my first month in office."
  40. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: strengthen oversight and accountability for environmental crimes

    "And I said, Minas Gerais will never face that again."

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