Q&A session1st round · September 4, 2026· Veja+

Veja Em Foco sabatina Ronaldo Caiado, candidato do PSD à Presidência

Q&A session with Ronaldo Caiado · 53 statements transcribed and classified · about national security, judiciary, prison system, fiscal and social policy. Click a statement to hear that moment in the video.

O candidato do PSD à Presidência, Ronaldo Caiado, foi sabatinado por Marcela Rahal, José Benedito, editor de Política de Veja, e Diogo Schelp, editor e colunista de Veja.

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  1. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: investigate suspicious campaign donations

    "He said in a plea-bargain proposal that the donations made to Tarcísio's and also Bolsonaro's campaigns in 2022 were bribes negotiated with his running mate, Gilberto Kassab, who is the president of the PSD."
    Misuse of Public Funds / Corruption
  2. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: investigate the source of campaign financing

    "In total, the transfers amounted to 5 million."
    Campaign Financing
  3. Ronaldo Caiado

    Neutral

    About: investigate suspicious campaign donations

    "He has already gone public to say clearly, both he and Tarcísio, that none of that happened."
  4. Ronaldo Caiado

    Neutral

    About: investigate suspicious campaign donations

    "And the information that came was that even the Federal Police and the Prosecutor's Office had not even accepted it."
  5. Ronaldo Caiado

    Ambiguous

    About: thoroughly investigate possible irregularities regardless of who is investigated

    "Any other question that is raised will need to be addressed, but the accusation must be solid."
  6. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: investigate corruption allegations by the STF and the PGR

    "Look, it's not about denying; this should be handled precisely by the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) and, at the same time, by the Procuradoria-Geral da República."
  7. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: conduct a broad, independent investigation by competent institutions

    "The proceedings cannot be a process of machismo; they have to be well-founded."
  8. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: investigate and judge corruption allegations at the STF

    "If it is well-founded, it will be up to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) to give the opinion and deliver the verdict."
  9. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: make corruption investigations public

    "is that we, the voters, have the right to see all these cases taken out of secrecy and made known to the entire population."
  10. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: increase transparency and accountability of the federal government to citizens

    "Because it would be a betrayal of Brazilian democracy to vote for someone who tomorrow you will discover is involved in corruption."
  11. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: make corruption investigations public

    "So, what I think — as happened in the case of Banco Master, Dark Horse, the INSS situation — all of this should come to light."
  12. Ronaldo Caiado

    Neutral

    About: make corruption investigations public

    "Voters have already said in polls that were carried out, saying, look, if I see that my candidate is involved in corruption, I will change my vote."
    Electoral StrategyRonaldo's profile
  13. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: restore order and the Democratic Rule of Law

    "So I think that at a moment when scandals are reported all the time, citizens no longer have reason to believe in the constituted powers in Brazil, and it's time for us to have someone who has that moral authority to be able to restore"
  14. Ronaldo Caiado

    Neutral

    About: investigate possible biases of STF ministers

    "No — you've seen other crises that occurred, Shelp, and you never saw the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) — also because I spent 24 years in the National Congress — but you never saw this level of scandal"
    JudiciaryRonaldo's profile
  15. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: hold ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) accountable for controversial decisions

    "So we cannot here blame other branches."
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  16. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: hold ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) accountable for controversial decisions

    "We must frankly say that the image of that branch — the conduct of each minister of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) — is leaving much to be desired regarding the level of rigor required of behavior in that office."
    JudiciaryRonaldo's profileView this statement
  17. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: hold ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) accountable for controversial decisions

    "We must go straight to the heart of the discussion: there was a lack of decorum and a lack of the proper dignity in exercising the office."
    JudiciaryRonaldo's profileView this statement
  18. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: order the suspension of STF ministers under investigation

    "Thus, in a situation like this, with the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) being a collegiate body, the minister Alexandre Moraes should have been temporarily suspended until he could actually address all this evidence; but, whether one likes it or not, those calls and those messages totally disqualify the minister's moral authority, leading to a worrying situation."
    JudiciaryRonaldo's profileView this statement
  19. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: hold ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) accountable for controversial decisions

    "So it's time for us to safeguard the institution."
    JudiciaryRonaldo's profileView this statement
  20. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: hold ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) accountable for controversial decisions

    "It's not an attack on the institution, but on those who have not behaved in a manner compatible with the exercise of the office."
    JudiciaryRonaldo's profileView this statement
  21. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: hold ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) accountable for controversial decisions

    "What has already been published shows that Minister Alexandre de Moraes really, as I said here, did not take care to behave like a minister of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)."
    JudiciaryRonaldo's profileView this statement
  22. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: limit application of the presumption of innocence for candidates in electoral proceedings

    "So, really, at that moment I said that he needs to understand that a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic cannot claim the right to the presumption of innocence."
    Electoral ProcessRonaldo's profile
  23. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: establish requirements and cooling-off periods for nomination and post-term of STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) ministers

    "First, what is already very clear: from the age of 60, for any supreme appointment, the past life and background of a person with a respected reputation — an ethical, dignified person with a curriculum in the legal field to support them."
    JudiciaryRonaldo's profileView this statement
  24. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: nominate ministers to the STF

    "I will nominate four women to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal)."
  25. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: nominate ministers to the STF

    "I'm convinced that if we put four women on the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) now, I am absolutely certain that we will restore the STF's credibility."
  26. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: nominate ministers to the STF

    "One will be immediate — on January 5 they already want to forward to the National Congress the name of the first for the vacancy that exists there."
  27. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: create a Ministry of Public Security

    "Now, it's important to say that I will create a Ministry of Public Security, an artificial intelligence system called IA Sentinela, where I will be aggregating — which is what's missing — aggregating all the information from the Federal Revenue Service, from COAF, also from the Federal Police's intelligence area, from the CVM, all that information entering into an AI system and guiding"
  28. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: build maximum-security prisons in Rio de Janeiro

    "And, for that, I said that I will build 40 maximum-security penitentiaries in Brazil."
  29. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: establish security agreements with neighboring countries for joint actions

    "I said that, from then on, I will also make partnerships with the presidents of neighboring countries, with Brazil, so that there is this integration of forces, so that the border is not an impediment to the continuity of the evolution of combating crime in another territory."
  30. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: employ armed forces to reoccupy territories controlled by criminal factions

    "At what moment would the army enter a community to combat a faction?"
    National SecurityView this statement
  31. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: classify criminal factions as terrorist organizations and increase penalties

    "In other words, also submit a bill to the National Congress considering the factions as domestic terrorism."
  32. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: disrupt and destroy organized crime through federal operations and special measures

    "And you cannot fight what I have just reported here, the invasion of factions from Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, the PCC, the Comando Vermelho and other Brazilian factions that are occupying territory."
  33. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: employ armed forces to reoccupy territories controlled by criminal factions

    "You cannot fight that area except with the air force, the navy and the army."
  34. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: use artificial intelligence to combat organized crime

    "Now, inside cities... No, I will use what we implemented as well: artificial intelligence."
  35. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: use artificial intelligence to combat organized crime

    "Precise identification so that you can combat these criminal factions."
  36. Desconhecido

    Against

    About: classify criminal factions as terrorist organizations and increase penalties

    "Candidate, changing the classification of criminal factions to factions... Doesn't that seem like more of a smokescreen, considering that the basics against criminality are not being done in Brazil?"
    National SecurityView this statement
  37. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: integrate security forces across the Union, states, and institutions

    "Integration of the police as well, coordination between the federal government, the states, border control and, above all, the candidate wanted to know your opinion: is it possible to actually combat organized crime without combating corruption?"
    National Security
  38. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: build new prisons inspired by the Alçavador model

    "I wanted to know if you intend to carry out a revolution in the prisons and if it would be inspired by the model of El Salvador, which has inspired much of the right across the continent, or if you see that with any reservations."
    Prison systemView this statement
  39. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: reform the Federal Police

    "Do you intend to make any major revolution in the Federal Police?"
    National Security
  40. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: confine criminal leaders in solitary confinement in federal prisons

    "how you really have a separation between the people who are in command of the faction and those who were pressured and were co-opted by them."

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