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Renan Santos explica propostas polêmicas e os limites de um eventual governo; veja a íntegra
58 classified statements · 1 politicians · August 25, 2026 · 45 min
Statements by Renan Santos. 58 excerpts classified by topic and stance. Topics: Electoral Program, Labor policy, Gender & Education, Religious Freedom / Free Expression.
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Renan Santos
2:34
About: position oneself as a centrist candidate focused on economic policies
No, no, that's exactly what I wanted.
Why it was classified this way · 92% confidence Responds by stating that the viralization/attacks were intentional and desired.
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Renan Santos
2:35
About: position oneself as a centrist candidate focused on economic policies
Indeed, the Palvel poll captures that, because, look, I attacked Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro practically equally; I think I attacked Lula a little more.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Says he attacked Lula and Flávio equally, justifying the strategy.
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Renan Santos
3:21
About: maintain an authentic message without seeking to please opposing voters
I'm not there to please those who aren't going to vote for me.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Declares he is not there to please those who will not vote for him.
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Renan Santos
3:41
About: maintain a frank and spontaneous message in the campaign
I think I'll do—I'll be poetic—I'll do what my heart tells me.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Affirms he will do 'o que o coração mandar' and will commit 'sincericídios'.
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Renan Santos
4:01
About: reduce working hours
by Lula's lie, that they will be able to work less and earn more in a country where Casas Bahia are closing.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Criticizes the promise to work less and earn more, calling it a lie.
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Renan Santos
4:41
About: reduce working hours
It's a lie; that will make people lose their jobs.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Explicitly states that the promise 'vai fazer as pessoas perderem emprego'.
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Renan Santos
6:13
About: treat the first lady as a political actor subject to criticism and accountability
Janja behaves like a political agent; she interferes in her husband's government without having been elected to do so.
Why it was classified this way · 82% confidence Affirms that Janja 'se comporta como agente político' and must bear the consequences.
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Renan Santos
7:54
About: guarantee freedom of expression for all political spectrums
If a person is in the public debate, they must be held accountable for their positions.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence States that those participating in public debate must take responsibility for their positions.
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Renan Santos
10:02
About: investigate and punish corruption and recover public funds
Regardless of that, I think it is a moral duty of any political leader to point out the lie, the sham of an election in which two people who are, directly or indirectly, on Daniel Vorcaro's payroll are leading the polls.
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence Says it is a moral duty to denounce misuse of the FGC and payments to politicians.
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Renan Santos
10:58
About: avoid overly calculated strategies and prioritize authenticity in the campaign
When you are too strategic, and keep choosing opponents and so on, you lose in the end.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Claims that excessive strategizing leads to failure, defending authenticity.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
11:43
About: implement enemy penal law
You promised a bloodbath against faction members and defend the penal law of the enemy.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence interviewer states that the candidate 'prometeu banho de sangue' and invokes the term.
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Renan Santos
13:30
About: reduce procedural guarantees for members of criminal factions
And based on that, look, this person belongs to a faction, therefore their rights will be curtailed, therefore the State has to go after them in a very emphatic way.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence States that 'os direitos dela serão mitigados' and that the State must act emphatically.
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Renan Santos
13:45
About: destroy organized crime leaders
I'll speak literally: I want to carry out a bloodbath against them.
Why it was classified this way · 95% confidence Literally declares he wants to 'fazer um banho de sangue' against them.
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Renan Santos
13:50
About: destroy organized crime leaders
I see nothing other than killing someone like DOCA as necessary.
Why it was classified this way · 97% confidence claims that 'não vê nada além de matar um sujeito como o DOCA' is necessary.
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Desconhecido
14:46
About: authorize and reward lethal force by police without accountability
And, sir, don't you fear that this rhetoric might spill over beyond the factions?
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence asks whether the discourse can go beyond factions and incite violence against civilians.
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Desconhecido
15:10
About: dismantle organized crime leadership and their financial structures
Are you talking about DOCA, the faction's leadership, sir?
Why it was classified this way · 65% confidence asks whether the focus is DOCA leadership, seeking emphasis on leaders.
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Renan Santos
15:14
About: dismantle criminal factions' operations
I think it has to go beyond DOCA down to the base of his faction's pyramid.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence states 'tem que extrapolar... até a base da pirâmide' explicitly.
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Desconhecido
15:19
About: ensure the state's monopoly on violence
But then the monopoly on violence belongs to the State, not to the citizen.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence declares 'o monopólio da violência é do Estado' as a principle.
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Desconhecido
17:12
About: increase sentences and incarceration for criminals
But is your plan effectively related to jails, to mass incarceration—more generally, to mass incarceration?
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence asks if the candidate's plan is related to mass incarceration.
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Desconhecido
17:27
About: increase sentences and incarceration for criminals
And why—so our listener/viewer can understand—the jails, the 'cadeiões', house, depending on the State, from 40% to 60% of the inmates in the penitentiary system, because they are those awaiting final judgment.
Why it was classified this way · 68% confidence explains the difference between cadeiões and penitentiaries while questioning implementation.
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Renan Santos
18:03
About: reform the prison system for rehabilitation and social reintegration
The model—and we have to also include police stations that still house a good part of this arrested population, or situations where the police already have the person at the station.
Why it was classified this way · 92% confidence includes police stations and explicitly calls for a 'reforma completa no sistema prisional'.
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Renan Santos
18:45
About: reform the prison system for rehabilitation and social reintegration
We will need to create 300,000 to 500,000 spots in the Brazilian prison system.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence proposes 'fazer de 300 a 500 mil vagas' in the prison system.
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Renan Santos
18:56
About: increase sentences and incarceration for criminals
What I mean is the following: I'm going to have to arrest many more people and I will increase the prisoners; they will be imprisoned for longer, which means I will have to create more spots because there will be more people imprisoned for longer periods.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence says 'vou ter que prender muito mais gente' and keep them for longer.
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Renan Santos
19:27
About: use smart cameras integrated with public intelligence to increase on-the-spot arrests
I know one thing: from the moment we greatly increase the presence of cameras in the main cities, track the urban sprawl and increase them substantially, focusing on armed robberies — which is what creates the sense of security, armed robbery, which is what produces robbery-homicide — we will greatly discourage cell phone theft, car theft, home robbery, and ring theft, which today are the four central elements of violent crimes with firearms.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence supports greater use of cameras to discourage thefts and generate security.
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Renan Santos
20:21
About: reform the prison system for rehabilitation and social reintegration
I need to have decent prisons, with individualization of the cell when necessary, and with spaces that are at least, let's say... dignified for people to live in.
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence wants 'cadeias decentes' with individualized cells and dignity.
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Renan Santos
21:47
About: increase sentences and incarceration for criminals
If it didn't, I would punish for a long time, because it's a matter of justice.
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence advocates high penalties 'por uma questão de justiça' even without deterrence.
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Desconhecido
22:09
About: approve the labor reform
Speaking of reform, one of your proposals is a drastic change to the CLT.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence asks which CLT right would be changed under the government.
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Renan Santos
22:27
About: approve the labor reform
His main right is the right to work.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence states 'o direito principal é o direito de trabalhar' and advocates change.
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Renan Santos
23:22
About: approve the labor reform
It's a shady workaround that all of us Brazilians have to use to be able to hire someone knowing that we won't face a labor lawsuit and won't pay so many taxes to the government.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence criticizes MEI as 'cambalacho' and proposes a new regime to formalize work.
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Renan Santos
23:41
About: approve the labor reform
So, what we can create is a regime in which we increase the base, because we reach the informal sector — everyone contributes, and as we increase the tax base, everyone contributes less, but the system remains viable.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence proposes increasing the taxpayer base and reducing burdens to formalize work.
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Desconhecido
25:09
About: elect five federal deputies for the party in the current scenario
You say that, Missão has always said — even we have had it here in previous interviews — it intends to elect a relevant caucus in Congress, which counts on this to be able to advance and leverage projects, including ones that are unconstitutional.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence questions the aim of electing a caucus to push projects in Congress.
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Renan Santos
27:45
About: demand discipline and transparency in political parties
The beauty of having built the party is that now this will be much more difficult to do.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence says 'o partido tem regras internas' and will hold members accountable for party disloyalty.
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Desconhecido
29:23
About: debate structural reforms
So, briefly, I'd like you to talk a bit about the base reforms, which remind us of João Goulart, a political son of Getúlio Vargas, who was a dictator, and the Estado Novo refers precisely to that period from '37 to '45; by the way, there was also an Estado Novo in Portugal, which was a dictatorship.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence asks to discuss foundational reforms, without expressing an opinion.
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Desconhecido
29:39
About: explain the vision behind structural reforms
But I wanted, if possible, for you to detail what the vision behind that concept is — whether it was deliberate, whether it was a clever move — I think it's worth using those terms.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence asks for details about the vision behind the concept, without defending it.
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Renan Santos
29:50
About: use provocative language against political opponents
And all of this is provocation toward our opponents.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence explicitly declares that the actions are 'provocações aos nossos adversários'.
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Renan Santos
29:54
About: use provocative terms and symbols in the campaign
The Yellow Book — the term 'Yellow Book' — is a provocation to what there was, for example, the Red Book of Maltesecundi.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence cites examples ('livro amarelo') as an intentionally provocative tactic.
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Renan Santos
30:04
About: adapt messaging for different electoral bases
I'm appropriating the terms you use.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence states 'estou me apropriando dos termos que vocês usam'.
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Renan Santos
30:27
About: foster partnerships with mayors and support interior municipalities
For example, when we talk about the managerial responsibility law, we talk about sending representatives from the Ministry of Finance to help manage municipalities.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence explicitly proposes sending MF representatives to assist municipalities.
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Renan Santos
30:34
About: use the term 'commissioner' as a rhetorical provocation
The term we used, 'commissioner,' I don't think we'll use that term in the end, but the term is meant to provoke.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence acknowledges using the term 'comissário' as intentionally provocative.
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Renan Santos
31:32
About: plant subtle references for attentive voters
Maybe they won't notice, but then those who do will understand.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Says 'quem percebe vai entender', describing a tactic of 'easter eggs'.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
33:04
About: review and make parliamentary amendments and tax benefits transparent
And then there's also the discussion that we talk a lot about cutting spending and forget to talk about tax exemptions for large companies, which is another huge discussion that also involves amounts and investments in the billions.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Interviewer question requests an opinion on exemptions for large companies.
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Renan Santos
33:50
About: manage the country like a private company
First, I also think this CEO thing is pathetic.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Declares 'essa coisa do CEO patética', rejecting that comparison.
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Renan Santos
34:22
About: index increases in the minimum wage and social benefits
Second point, about indexations and linkages: those are terms very complicated to bring into public debate, but the reality is the following: only Brazil... among developing and developed nations — let's put them together — practices this kind of fiscal policy which is suicidal.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Calls the practice of linkage/indexation 'suicida' and criticizes its fiscal effects.
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Renan Santos
35:37
About: approve a fiscal reform
First thing, the tax reform — it will take care of most of that... It's already been discussed.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence States that the tax reform 'vai pegar' many tax exemptions.
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Renan Santos
36:03
About: change the Simples Nacional and the MEI regime
And I think it would be suicide for Brazil today to touch the Simples and the MEI, because the Brazilian economy, the small Brazilian economy is based on that.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Declares 'acho suicídio mexer no Simples e no MEI', opposing the change.
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Renan Santos
36:10
About: implement a low-tax system for individuals and expand the taxpayer base
We will have to create a labor system that allows for collection with very low taxes for people and an increase in the tax base.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Proposes creating a work system that allows revenue collection with very low taxes.
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Renan Santos
37:31
About: approve PEC 22/2025
So, everything that is a PEC, I will pass as a PEC.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Declares 'tudo que for PEC, eu vou passar como PEC', defending that path.
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Renan Santos
38:02
About: ensure political will to confront organized crime
I have to face the fiscal issue, I have to face the economic issue and I have to face organized crime.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Declares confronting organized crime as an initial government priority.
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Renan Santos
38:13
About: propose a constituent assembly to change entrenched clauses
I can only propose a constituent assembly to change an entrenched clause if I have a government that solves the economic, federative and security issues.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Says he would only propose a constituent assembly after solving problems and obtaining legitimacy.
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Renan Santos
38:27
About: address the country's problems within Brazil's institutional framework
But initially I have to respond using Brazilian institutions, and it is possible to respond with Brazilian institutions to the problems Brazil has today.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Advocates initially acting through institutional channels to resolve problems.
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Renan Santos
38:35
About: amend the Constitution through constitutional amendments (PECs)
And if it is necessary to change the Constitution via PEC, I will change it.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence States 'se precisar alterar a constituição via PEC, eu altero'.
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Renan Santos
38:59
About: adopt impeachment procedure for STF minister when applicable
We have to be, I'll use the term here, shrewd in this game.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence States that an immediate impeachment would show a lack of sagacity; rejects a precipitate action.
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Renan Santos
39:11
About: investigate and punish corruption in public administration
Not that I don't want to or that I don't think those involved in the Banco Amastra scandal should merely be removed, but also imprisoned.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Says those involved in the scandal should be removed and arrested.
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Renan Santos
39:17
About: appoint an independent Prosecutor General of the Republic
And not that I won't appoint an independent Prosecutor General of the Republic so that, during the investigation process, he can file a charge and that I won't support our Senate bench in presenting an impeachment request.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Says he will appoint an independent PGR to conduct investigations.
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Renan Santos
40:09
About: ensure political will to confront organized crime
At the very beginning of my term, I need to take a very clear stand against organized crime and against the fiscal destruction that will be inherited by my government from Lula.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Repeats the need for a clear confrontation of organized crime at the start of the term.
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Renan Santos
41:01
About: comply with the Constitution and rules of procedure
I'm not a thief, I wasn't with Vorcaro, I was democratically elected and I will procedurally comply with everything the Constitution commands.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Promises to comply procedurally with what the Constitution mandates.
- Neutral
Renan Santos
42:38
About: acknowledge that femicide is a recent penal classification
Second thing, when I said that the criminal offense of femicide is a recent creation, it's because it is a recent creation.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence States that the criminal classification femicide is a recent creation, without proposing change.
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Renan Santos
43:06
About: publish statistics on femicide
Today it represents about 4% of the total homicides that occur every day in Brazil.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Reports that femicide represents about 4% of homicides, presented as a factual datum.
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