Analyzed statement

What Eduardo Paes said about participate in televised presidential debates

About: participate in televised presidential debates

Desconhecido: Candidate, to ask a question of a political nature and about participation in the public debate: why didn't you go to the Bande debate?

Eduardo Paes: Look, first point, right?

The campaign hadn't even officially started yet, right?

Eduardo Paes · 0:54

Eduardo Paes: Then you go to a debate, you can't even ask for votes.

Eduardo Paes: Second point, you had — and that's why I think it's a mistake — I defend, I've already taken part in several debates here on Band, I've run — this is my seventh major election; if you count runoffs it's about ten major elections — and I've always participated in Band's debates, but this one noticeably had an ineligible candidate, and the advance in the pre-election registration deadline means that someone who is ineligible — which is the case of garotinho, right?

Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence

justifies absence by saying the campaign had not started.

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