Renan Santos: or the municipality/the mayor is screwed and even becomes ineligible for eight years.
Renan Santos: If I create that problem down at his base.
Then the guy will have to, when sending an earmark, use the earmark to meet a performance target. Let me fix public security, let me fix basic investment, let me increase economic activity to increase revenue. Don't want a federal government commissioner in your municipality? Make the municipality collect revenue. If the municipality is collecting, we don't poke our nose in. It's like this: today the Brazilian municipality—more than half of them—depends on federal government resources to exist. If it depends on the federal government to exist, that municipality is like a child living in your house; you pay its bills. So you'll tell how the child behaves, what time it goes to bed, when it will wake up, right?
Renan Santos: Right. Now, if that child has become an adult and is living in its own house, if the father wants to meddle, the child says, 'no, let me fend for myself here.'
Renan Santos: That's how it should be. If the municipality is self-sustaining, it is self-sustaining. If it's not self-sustaining, we who are paying the bill have to take care of it.