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Veja Em Foco sabatina Ronaldo Caiado, candidato do PSD à Presidência
53 classified statements · 1 politicians · September 4, 2026 · 47 min
Statements by Ronaldo Caiado. 53 excerpts classified by topic and stance. Topics: Misuse of Public Funds / Corruption, Campaign Financing, Institutions, Transparency & Institutional Secrecy.
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Desconhecido
1:00
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.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports a plea bargain claiming donations were bribes, without asking for explicit action.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
1:12
About: investigate the source of campaign financing
In total, the transfers amounted to 5 million.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence States the amount transferred (fact) without proposing any measure.
- Neutral
Ronaldo Caiado
1:17
About: investigate suspicious campaign donations
He has already gone public to say clearly, both he and Tarcísio, that none of that happened.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence States that those involved denied the accusations; describes their public position.
- Neutral
Ronaldo Caiado
1:23
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.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Reports that the PF and the PGR initially did not accept the complaint (description).
- Ambiguous
Ronaldo Caiado
1:33
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.
Why it was classified this way · 50% confidence Calls for the allegations to be solid, but does not explicitly demand an investigation in this statement.
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Ronaldo Caiado
1:48
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.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Assigns the role of investigation to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) and the PGR, defending their action.
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Ronaldo Caiado
2:00
About: conduct a broad, independent investigation by competent institutions
The proceedings cannot be a process of machismo; they have to be well-founded.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence States that the process needs to be well founded, not improvised.
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Ronaldo Caiado
2:05
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.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Says it is up to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) to give an opinion and verdict on the allegations.
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Ronaldo Caiado
2:17
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.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Argues that cases should be taken out of secrecy and made public.
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Ronaldo Caiado
2:33
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.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Argues that voters have the right to know before voting.
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Ronaldo Caiado
2:43
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.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Says that cases like Banco Master and Dark Horse should 'vir à tona'.
- Neutral
Ronaldo Caiado
2:54
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.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports a survey on voter behavior in the face of scandals.
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Ronaldo Caiado
3:25
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
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Calls for someone with moral authority to restore order and democracy.
- Neutral
Ronaldo Caiado
4:23
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
Why it was classified this way · 60% confidence Says they have never seen this level of scandal at the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) (observation).
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Ronaldo Caiado
4:45
About: hold ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) accountable for controversial decisions
So we cannot here blame other branches.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Says the ministers' performance has been lacking and they should be held accountable.
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Ronaldo Caiado
4:51
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.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Criticizes each minister's image and performance, calling for greater rigor.
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Ronaldo Caiado
5:20
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.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence States there was a lack of decorum and dignity in the exercise of the office.
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Ronaldo Caiado
5:31
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.
Why it was classified this way · 92% confidence Explicitly says Moraes should have been removed.
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Ronaldo Caiado
6:16
About: hold ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) accountable for controversial decisions
So it's time for us to safeguard the institution.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Says it's time to safeguard the institution by holding individuals accountable.
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Ronaldo Caiado
6:28
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.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Says the problem is behavior incompatible with exercising the office.
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Ronaldo Caiado
6:44
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).
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Uses publications as evidence of a minister's improper conduct.
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Ronaldo Caiado
9:12
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.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence States a candidate cannot invoke presumption of innocence in the electoral process.
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Ronaldo Caiado
11:20
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.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Proposes age, resume and post-term waiting-period criteria for nominees.
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Ronaldo Caiado
12:17
About: nominate ministers to the STF
I will nominate four women to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
Why it was classified this way · 95% confidence Explicitly declares he will nominate four women to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
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Ronaldo Caiado
12:46
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.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Argues that appointing women will restore the credibility of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
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Ronaldo Caiado
16:18
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.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Says he will send the first nominee to Congress on January 5.
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Ronaldo Caiado
21:14
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
Why it was classified this way · 95% confidence Explicitly announces he will create a Ministry of Public Security.
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Ronaldo Caiado
22:46
About: build maximum-security prisons in Rio de Janeiro
And, for that, I said that I will build 40 maximum-security penitentiaries in Brazil.
Why it was classified this way · 95% confidence Declares he will build 40 maximum-security prisons in Brazil.
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Ronaldo Caiado
22:52
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.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Proposes partnerships with neighboring presidents for integration and transnational counter-operations.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
24:11
About: employ armed forces to reoccupy territories controlled by criminal factions
At what moment would the army enter a community to combat a faction?
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Asks when the Army would enter communities to fight factions.
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Ronaldo Caiado
24:18
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.
Why it was classified this way · 92% confidence Explicitly proposes submitting a bill to Congress to make that classification.
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Ronaldo Caiado
24:28
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.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence States the need to fight factions that are occupying territory.
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Ronaldo Caiado
24:51
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.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Says that only the Air Force, Navy and Army can combat the region.
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Ronaldo Caiado
26:06
About: use artificial intelligence to combat organized crime
Now, inside cities... No, I will use what we implemented as well: artificial intelligence.
Why it was classified this way · 92% confidence declares intention to use artificial intelligence for policing inside cities.
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Ronaldo Caiado
26:14
About: use artificial intelligence to combat organized crime
Precise identification so that you can combat these criminal factions.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence defends 'identificação precisa' via AI as a tool for combating.
- Against
Desconhecido
26:28
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?
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence labels the change in classification as a possible 'cortina de fumaça', a direct criticism.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
26:49
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?
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence lists police integration, coordination and border control as necessary measures.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
30:19
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.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence asks whether there will be a prison revolution inspired by El Salvador.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
30:38
About: reform the Federal Police
Do you intend to make any major revolution in the Federal Police?
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence directly asks about the intention to change the Federal Police.
- For
Ronaldo Caiado
32:19
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.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence advocates separating faction commanders from co‑opted inmates in prisons.
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Ronaldo Caiado
32:42
About: prohibit conjugal visits and record lawyers' visits in prisons
So he doesn't have conjugal visits and visits with a lawyer are recorded.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence says that faction leaders do not have conjugal visits and that visits with lawyers are recorded.
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Ronaldo Caiado
32:55
About: expand work programs in the prison system
Others serve their sentence and then you'll see, it's worth visiting the model we installed there: you think you're going to enter a factory, the whole garden is neat, the trees well pruned, everything beautiful, you don't see that prison stench, and you'll see huge facilities there.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence describes workshops, garment manufacturing and vocational training inside prisons.
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Ronaldo Caiado
34:09
About: restrict privileges and restore order in the prison system
After we established control over the penitentiaries, look, you can't imagine the drop in crime in the state.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence claims a drop in crime after controlling the penitentiaries (track record).
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Ronaldo Caiado
35:17
About: submit a constitutional amendment to limit public spending
In the first year it's to submit a PEC, an Amendment to the Brazilian Constitution, called the Fiscal Emergency PEC.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence says the first measure is to submit an Emergency Fiscal PEC in the first year.
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Ronaldo Caiado
36:10
About: submit a constitutional amendment to limit public spending
This parameter is defined, that is, it will be half of GDP growth.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence proposes a spending parameter equal to half the GDP growth.
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Ronaldo Caiado
37:49
About: use technology and artificial intelligence to reduce waste and corruption in public spending
An AI-based system to find out where benefit money is being diverted.
Why it was classified this way · 92% confidence proposes using AI to find out where benefit funds are being diverted.
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Ronaldo Caiado
38:01
About: review and make parliamentary amendments and tax benefits transparent
Conduct an extensive review of all areas that have tax incentives or tax benefits—whatever their name—that today amount to over 600 billion reais, to identify what is being improperly used as a benefit.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence calls for a sweep of tax incentives totaling about 600 billion.
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Ronaldo Caiado
39:26
About: implement public spending controls and fiscal austerity policies
Lula himself, with that demagoguery, populism, irresponsibility, handed Brazil, it’s true, into the hands of drug trafficking and corruption.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence criticizes increased spending by the previous government, advocating the opposite (control).
- Neutral
Desconhecido
40:10
About: defend Brazil's commercial interests abroad
Candidate, how would you deal with Trump’s tariffs?
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence asks how the candidate would deal with U.S. tariffs and defend exporters.
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Ronaldo Caiado
40:31
About: compensate exporters affected by foreign tariffs with state support
I called all the business owners and said there would be State compensation wherever they were affected by these tariff measures.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence says that, as governor, he compensated exporters and provided state compensation.
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Ronaldo Caiado
40:45
About: revalue and strengthen the Brazilian chancellery (Itamaraty)
First, I will transform it; I will restore the Brazilian Itamaraty.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence declares explicit intention to 'resgatar o Itamaraty brasileiro'.
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Ronaldo Caiado
44:00
About: promote industrialization of raw materials and development of national value chains
Where you have startups developed in our tech hub, where you see that I rose up against selling rare earths in raw form in order to seek memoranda of understanding with Japan and the United States, so that they are obliged
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence advocates memoranda to force transformation and add value to the country.
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Ronaldo Caiado
44:30
About: create the civil framework for artificial intelligence in Brazil
So, as governor of the State, I have an artificial intelligence law, I have a Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, I have a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, I have a law for an authority on critical minerals in the State of Goiás.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence claims to have a law, a center and an AI regulatory framework in their state government.
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