Fernando Haddad: This is serious and for us to be able to fulfill our government plan... especially in priority areas like security, health and education, we will have to restore the State's finances.
Fernando Haddad: So, in the first six months, you can be sure there will be a lot of work ahead, doing more or less what we had to do during Marta Suplicy's administration and afterwards with Pita.
We had to review contract by contract; we cut the city's operating costs by an average of 20% at that time.
Fernando Haddad: We will have to do the same with the State of São Paulo.
Fernando Haddad: to free up budgetary space, so that then we can modernize health, education and public security, which have demotivated professionals and no technological updates.