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ENTREVISTA COM CLEITINHO AZEVEDO (REPUBLICANOS) AO GOVERNO DE MG | CNN ELEIÇÕES
632 statements · 1 politicians · August 28, 2026 · 47 min
Statements by Cleitinho Azevedo. 632 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Public Service, Electoral Program, Public Health and Hospital Infrastructure, Sanitation.
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Very good evening, CNN Brasil continues the series of interviews with the candidates for the main state governments and the Federal District.
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Since last week, we have been speaking with the candidates for the government of Minas Gerais.
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Those best placed in the CNN index, CNN Brasil's poll aggregator developed in partnership with IPESP Analítica, are being invited for this round.
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We have received Matheus Simões, from PSD, Gabriel Azevedo, from MDB, Flávio Rosco from PL, and Patrus Ananias from PT.
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Today it's Cleitinho Azevedo's turn, from Republicanos, already in the Itatiaia studio in Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte.
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Here in São Paulo, beside me, political analyst Caio Junqueira, and in the Cineira studio in Brasília.
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the analyst Edilene Lopes.
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I already say good evening to all my colleagues, especially to the candidate, wishing a good interview for all of us.
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This interview lasts 45 minutes, as with all the others.
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The clock starts counting from now.
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Candidate, I want to hear from you, who were the last to officially enter this race.
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What have you already observed about the current administration that is working and that you want to maintain, should you be elected governor of Minas Gerais, and what is the first measure, that crucial, fundamental one, that you will take and radically change in relation to what is happening now in the state of Minas?
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Good evening.
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Can you hear me?
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Yes, we can.
About: continue the effective policies of the state government
First, whatever is good in the government, we have to continue.
About: continue the effective policies of the state government
I will do that with great humility.
About: refrain from attacking the current government during the campaign
I am not here to attack the current government.
About: continue the effective policies of the state government
I think it's important what we see is good.
About: continue the effective policies of the state government
We carry it on.
About: prioritize investment in and strengthening of public health
Now, what I have always said, since I presented myself as a pre-candidate for governor, if I would run as a candidate for governor, besides talking about health, security and education, which are the basics and the obligation of a public administration, is to fight injustice.
About: improve basic sanitation and sewage treatment
I see various injustices within Minas Gerais here, where a citizen pays a water bill although there is no effective sewage treatment, and still pays that fee.
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About: implement a social tariff in sanitation services with multiple discount tiers
Today, a water bill for a Minas Gerais worker here is R$ 300, R$ 350, for someone who earns R$ 1,600.
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About: review energy tariff increases
The electricity bill is the same.
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About: review the composition of fees and taxes on the electricity bill
An energy bill where you pay more in fees and taxes than for actual consumption.
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About: review the composition of fees and taxes on the electricity bill
A bill that reaches almost R$ 350, R$ 400.
About: reduce state IPVA charges
We have here the IPVA, the most expensive 'liquidadeira' in Brazil, together with the very bad, horrible roads we have here in Minas Gerais.
About: combat injustices in the state
So what I want to do right away is to fight injustice.
About: reduce state IPVA charges
I want in a way... There's even a controversy about this IPVA issue.
- Ambiguous
About: reduce state IPVA charges
Saying that I will do away with the IPVA because I want to prevent vehicles from being impounded for nonpayment of IPVA.
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About: reduce state IPVA charges
And the controversy is that people say I don't have the authority for that, that it's federal.
About: reduce state IPVA charges
If I am the governor and the one who collects the IPVA is the government... Then I have the authority to provide several alternatives so that the citizen of Minas is no longer humiliated in Minas Gerais, and from January 1st he will no longer be humiliated.
About: combat injustices in the state
So whatever I can do within the State, on the first day of my term, to combat the injustice that happens to the people of Minas, I will do it with great pleasure.
Because there the ones who will govern are the people.
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We will rotate the questions here.
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I'll pass the word to Edilene Lopes so we can deepen the conversation here.
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And I also leave you at ease, candidate, if I need to adjust the audio return while Edilene asks the question to make it more comfortable.
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Please, Edilene.
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Senator Cleitinho, the voter who still hasn't decided today about which candidate they will vote for in Minas Gerais has a question in mind, which is the following.
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After such a long process to decide whether or not he would be a candidate, is Senator Cleitinho... prepared?
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Can we be confident that he is prepared to occupy that office?
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A second question that voters always ask is: Cleitinho was a councilman, a state deputy, and a senator, but has not held any executive office.
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In Minas Gerais, it is a state that has, for example, a large debt with the Union.
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Would he be prepared?
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That is, in summary, can the voter trust him?
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Secondly, do you consider yourself prepared?
Edilene, what an excellent question.
First, I wish you good evening.
About: begin soliciting votes from the regulatory start date
In fact, you who are from Minas Gerais, I very much want to count on your vote, Edilene, because I believe that no candidate you've interviewed so far has asked you for your vote.
I am asking you for your vote.
The vote is secret, but you can vote for me.
All right?
But this question is extremely important, because I always say this: you have never been part of the executive.
So I ask you a question.
The current president of the republic — before becoming president, had he ever been president of the republic?
Lula?
Bolsonaro himself, who was the previous one, had he always been from the Legislative?
Had he been president, had he ever held any executive position?
The former governor himself, who is now a presidential hopeful, Romeu Zema.
What political role had he had before becoming governor?
So why can't I?
This experience—anyone who is here, including you, Edilene—I guarantee you that when you started, you were one way.
Today you are much more experienced.
No one is born knowing anything.
So what do I already know?
I know very well how to distinguish what is right and what is wrong.
About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector
So what I need to do there is surround myself with competent people by my side, because no one does anything alone.
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About: continue the effective policies of the state government
The State's public apparatus already functions; it already has a Secretariat of Education, a Secretariat of Infrastructure, a Secretariat of Planning, a Secretariat of Finance.
About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector
It is up to me to put the right people in the right places; that is what I will do.
I don't know everything and no candidate knows everything.
Now I know very well what is right and what is wrong.
And what I will do in the governor's chair is do what is right.
It is to carry out the actions that need to be done for the people.
I am a political leader; I make political decisions.
And the decisions I will make will always be in favor of the people.
Jesus Christ, who didn't need anyone, he walked with 12 disciples.
Now imagine me.
So I have to surround myself with honest people, competent people.
About: implement transparency in state public administration
and continue the work that has been going on, which today is that of the current governor, and fix what needs to be fixed, improve, be transparent.
About: implement transparency in state public administration
I think that, for me, the principle of public administration is called transparency.
What I will do within the State, within the government, is be transparent.
About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector
I will put competent secretaries in the ministries, including Dilene.
About: hold selection processes to appoint secretaries and public managers
I already said that; I even made it official saying that the first secretary I wanted to have in my government would be a career official, from education, a woman.
About: dialogue and negotiate with teachers' unions
I want to discuss this with teachers, with education professionals.
And today here I also talked a lot this week with... Do you know him?
About: invite experienced managers to join the state secretariat
Medioli, who was mayor of Betim as well, and I invited him to be part of this cabinet.
Because Medioli was one of the best mayors, not only of Betim, he was one of the best mayors in Brazil, Medioli.
And I'm sure he has a lot to add to my team here with the experience he has in that administrative area.
Besides, my running mate is Falcão, who left the mayoralty of Pátio Minas, for those who don't know, with an approval rating of 80%.
He knows how to administer.
Who is elected and then re-elected with 80% is because they knew how to administer.
So I'm going to put together a great team for the people of Minas Gerais, put the right people in the right places.
About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector
And I'm sure the most important thing is these hands here, look. I'll show you here.
These hands of mine are clean.
And that's what matters.
They say, 'ah, hell is full of good intentions.'
But what politics needs is good intentions.
That's what politics needs: well-intentioned people who will take the people's money and return it to the people.
About: avoid conflicts of interest between public positions and ties to private companies
I will not do anything there, negotiate anything that is not for the people.
I will not negotiate anything for my own pocket; I will only negotiate for the people.
And about the issue of having left and come back, to the dismay of politicians, that note the party released at the time saying I would not be a candidate, I'm sure many politicians in Minas Gerais set off fireworks.
But after I grabbed and said I was going to be a candidate, poor that bunch, they must have started to cry.
So, then, to the dismay of politicians, to the joy of the people, I am a candidate for governor.
I am doing what the people asked me to do.
I made that clear, Edilendo, you accompanied this trajectory, you told me last year that if I continued leading in the polls until the end, until July, which would be the conventions, I would make myself available to be a candidate.
So that's what I did, I listened to the people.
Now, most importantly... That indecision was not because I'm ineligible, not because I'm 'ficha suja', not because I have corruption attached to my name, there is none of that.
The only thing it was was a party issue with me, because at the time of the convention I was burying my brother, I was dealing with my brother's situation, I was in mourning, it was only because of that.
We resolved it and I am a candidate to the joy of the people and the sorrow of the politicians.
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You raised... The issue of you not having processes against you, of you having clean hands, but around you there are people who have involvement, at least, minimally, in allegations.
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I bring up here Euclides Pettersen, who is president of your party in Minas Gerais and is suspected, accused, involved, according to the CPMI of the INSS, of being involved in INSS frauds.
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of your party.
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And I also bring up the issue of Marcelo Arno, about whom there are also allegations, mainly in the Minas press, related to his involvement with the Master case; he is also an ally of yours in this race, he is a candidate for the Senate.
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How do you see these two figures and you carrying these two figures in the election?
About: preserve accountability for corruption and transparency
So, regarding Euclides, to be clear, he is not just an ally of mine, no.
During this process, for people to understand, I befriended him; today he is my friend.
But his CPF is one thing, my CPF is another.
And if, unfortunately, during this process he is convicted, I will be very sad because he is my friend, but like any other citizen like me, like you, he will have to pay for it.
I can't do anything, unfortunately.
If he did that... Because so far it went to the PGR, the PGR is on the case, right, investigating to later determine whether he will be convicted or not.
If he is convicted, he will have to pay for it.
Now, regarding Aro, just so people understand, four years ago we competed in a Senate election, which I won, and he came in third place.
He attacked me a lot during that election.
But one thing I learned in life is to know how to forgive.
He came and asked me for forgiveness.
I accepted his apology and this composition also came about because of the party issue.
When the party came to ask me, to officially present my candidacy, Marcos Pereira, who is president of Republicanos, asked me to, in that case, support Aro.
Now, Aro, so far, there are... There are news items linked to him.
If there is any process against Aro as well, folks, he will have to pay, like any other person.
If they investigate, look into it, and he is convicted, he is not above the law, neither he, nor Clídes, nor any candidate, nor am I.
They will have to pay.
That's how Brazil works.
That's how Brazil's justice system works.
That's how it should be.
About: preserve accountability for corruption and transparency
I will not cover anything up.
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About: appoint secretaries only if there are no relevant pending legal proceedings
Now, to be clear, candidate, you have already mentioned some names you intend to count on
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in a possible cabinet should you be elected.
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Those two names that were mentioned by Caio Junqueira, if there is nothing weighing against them in the courts, could be part of the government.
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Cleitinho Azevedo, in particular Marcelo Arco, who has even been a secretary in the current administration?
No.
I am very direct and very objective.
Just so you understand, in Euclides's situation, I like to say this because I know that during the campaign they will always link me with Euclides, which, as I said to you, Euclides became a friend of mine because I am grateful to him, because at the time of the 2022 election, if not first God, but if he hadn't invited me to join and taken up that fight with me, maybe today I wouldn't even be giving you interviews because I wouldn't be a senator.
So I have that gratitude with him.
But gratitude is one thing, friendship is one thing, and politics is another.
So then... This issue of the cabinet, while he doesn't resolve his problem, for you to have an idea, he could have come as a candidate for the Senate.
It was a conversation between us and the party in which we explained, resolve your problem first, because at this moment I can't support you as a senator.
It was a face-to-face conversation.
I explained this to him.
So he already knows that.
Aro, for you to have an idea, Aro himself, in the conversation I had with him, he himself said that he will run in the election and if he doesn't win the Senate seat, he doesn't want any position inside the government anymore, because he doesn't want to be a government secretary anymore, whether mine, Matheus's or whoever's.
That is also his decision and he would also not, likewise, take part in my cabinet.
That's already a conversation I've had with him, already.
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Edilene?
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Senator, do you think your candidacy ended up disaggregating the right in Minas Gerais, given that we have candidates on other slates, even though your slate is a pure slate, only from Republicanos, declaring support for you, for example there are candidates in the PL (Liberal Party) declaring support, even from the left as well — a mayor from the PT (Workers' Party) declared support for you and runs the risk of being punished.
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Do you think it was a disaggregating factor for the right and do you think you will also be able to reduce the left's candidacies?
Man, I don't think it happened like that.
No, Edileno, for the following reason.
I am leading the polls.
If you look at the polls, that right-wing voter is with me.
I think it's a natural process.
There is Roski, who is a guy I admire, whom I respect.
And I think there's the first round and there may also be a second round.
If I go to the second round, I want to count on his support.
If I'm not, and if either Matheus or Roski make it, they will have my support.
I am very transparent, very truthful.
Don't expect me to stay here, beat around the bush, lie, try to pull the wool over your eyes, no.
So, like I said... I am very objective.
My situation, what happened to me, was that party situation.
The PL did want to support me, yes.
We had even already agreed to that, right?
That I would also support Domingos Sávio, who is a candidate for senator.
But with this situation in the party, this indecision, the PL ended up fielding a candidate.
That's part of the process; it's natural.
And I think if we talk so much... Look, what I want to say to you here, so you can hold me to it after the second round, or after the elections are over.
And I hope that so many candidates on the right will have the same coherence that I'm showing.
They've always said that the right had to be united.
What did I say, God, last year?
Look, I'm here, including Nicolas, who is a candidate for federal deputy; I had several conversations with him, because since I have the Senate here and had four more years in the Senate, I made it very clear to Nicolas: if you want to run for governor, since you're old enough, I'll step aside for you and I'll be glad to be able to support you.
Nicolas thought at the time not to be a candidate.
So, right-wing candidates always talk about the unity of the right.
At this moment, now in the first round... There's no way that can happen, each one will go their own way, but I really hope, if I reach the second round, that I can count on them, because I'm sure that if I'm not there, I'll do everything I can to support them as well.
And about the issue of the PT mayor, this is what I keep saying to you: I am an extremely democratic politician.
I am, yes — I'm someone who doesn't look at labels, I don't look at party or ideological affiliation, I look at people.
What happened is that my office, when I was elected senator, I made it clear that any mayor, any party, who wanted to use my office to bring their cities' demands, I would be happy to assist — with great honor.
And what she did was bring a demand from the city; I have those funds that are the amendments, and I made a point of sending that amendment to the city, to her — which isn't just for her.
No — there is already a PT councilor who went to... In my office there's a PT councilor who will support me as well, there are councilors from other parties too, from the center and the left; there are mayors who went there and I have always helped, and I always will.
If I win the election I will govern for everyone.
I keep saying one thing: I may be on the right, but my heart is for everyone.
And if I win the election I have the obligation to serve all 853 municipalities.
All the mayors of Minas Gerais who have brought fair demands that are in favor of the people — my heart will be open, my office open to serve everyone: politicians, federal deputies, state deputies, senators.
About: govern for everyone
I went through the Assembly, I lived and worked within the Assembly, I made many friends of various ideologies there, from various parties, and that's how I will work; I will work for everyone.
About: prioritize the people's interests in public administration
There is my line of thought, my way of doing politics; I respect theirs, but when it comes to speaking for the people, you can count on me 100%.
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Now, senator, nationally, your candidate is Flávio Bolsonaro.
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Will you campaign for him?
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Will you commit yourself to that candidacy?
About: support Flávio Bolsonaro's candidacy
I am already doing that, because I had already said that since last year, when he was considering running for president, saying that I would support him.
About: support Flávio Bolsonaro's candidacy
Because of the issue of the right, because I work with him in the Senate — I've worked with him for almost four years — and also because of his father, who is Bolsonaro, to whom I am very grateful as well, because beyond God and the people, if it weren't for Bolsonaro embracing me in that 2022 campaign, taking up a fight by calling the party's national president to secure my spot too, I might not be here giving this interview to you.
So I had already said that — my situation was that Flávio would also campaign for me, but the indecision about my party's candidacy came, and Flávio went and, in this case now, there's Flávio Roschi, who is campaigning.
About: unite right-wing candidates in the second round against the left
So, like I said, the right has to be united.
About: unite right-wing candidates in the second round against the left
And I will be united with the right so that we can strengthen each other even more.
So I will keep doing it here.
I will not have their platform.
About: conduct an independent campaign
The platform I will build now will be a solo platform.
Not alone — with the people.
Just today I already toured three cities walking among the people.
About: support Flávio Bolsonaro's candidacy
And whatever opportunity I have to help Flávio, I'll be available.
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Candidate, one of the points we've been addressing a lot in interviews is the fiscal situation of Minas Gerais.
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You began by saying, for example, that you have faced criticism regarding what you think about the IPVA and the enforcement measures that result in people having their cars impounded, etc.
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But this issue of Minas' financial situation depends on conversations, on dialogue with the federal government.
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By Minas and national polls, you... are the favorite to be elected governor and President Lula to be re-elected for a new term.
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How do you expect to deal with Lula, if this result is confirmed — both you elected and the president re-elected — how will you approach the federal government to discuss Minas' fiscal issue?
About: dialogue with the federal government
With the greatest respect, in a republican and democratic manner.
I have already said this in several interviews.
About: renegotiate the State's debt with the federal government
If Lula wins the election, and I win the election, my first act as governor — and I will tell you the truth — I will not wait to be certified or sworn in.
About: renegotiate the State's debt with the federal government
When November comes, if I have been re-elected, and I have also been elected as... governor of the state, the first meeting I want to hold is with Lula.
About: renegotiate the State's debt with the federal government
I want to look him in the eye and ask for help, because it makes no sense to be confrontational when you're the one in debt.
It's the same thing as if I owe Edilene here and I go talk to Edilene in a rude way, pointing my finger at her and wanting her to help me pay that debt to Edilene.
About: dialogue with the federal government
It won't be with fights or arguments; it will be with dialogue.
I need, the next governor of the State — I need to understand that he has to have humility.
to have this dialogue with the federal government, since everything we collect here doesn't even stay here; the majority goes back to the federal government — 70%.
There is a lot that needs to be done here within Minas Gerais that is the responsibility of the federal government.
About: dialogue with the federal government
And if this ideological fight continues, this fight that leads nowhere, the ones who lose are the people — in terms of public policy, the only ones who will lose are the people.
About: govern for everyone
So I must have respect, I must think about the people, and I must understand that I govern for everyone.
About: govern for everyone
From the moment the election is over, once I become governor, I will be governing for those who voted for me and those who didn't.
I will be.
About: adopt a moderate political stance
Yes, I'm not at all a radical person, not at all an extremist.
When I lost my brother, Lula called me, was sympathetic to me, and offered his condolences.
About: promote dialogue and mediation in politics
So I will never be here putting any politician or president or whoever as a mortal enemy.
About: prioritize the people's interests over party alliances
I have my own views; he is not my ally just as I am not his ally — he is supporting another candidate — but above all I am an ally of the people.
About: dialogue with different political forces to implement public policies
So anything that is for the people, I will be willing to discuss.
So... Remember what I'm telling you here.
About: renegotiate the State's debt with the federal government
If I win the election, the first act as governor will be to address this debt of Minas, because it's impossible — it's almost unpayable.
About: renegotiate the State's debt with the federal government
So the government also has to have that sensitivity; Lula needs to understand that we need to implement public policy here. I'll give you an example: the installment payment we are paying today — if that payment, at minimum, the government could take it and return it to the state as investment in its own infrastructure — there are several federal roads here that are the federal government's responsibility; with dialogue, us talking, I'm sure Lula will do this for us.
If it's not Lula, if it's Flávio Bolsonaro, if it's Cury who is emerging now, or if it's Renan himself — Renan has been attacking me in a disrespectful way all the time.
I have always treated the people from MBL with great respect.
Renan has been treating me in a very disrespectful way, and I don't know why.
But I will not hold grudges, I will not be here wishing harm on anyone.
I don't have that kind of thing in my heart.
When I leave the house, I go out to bring people together; I don't go out to harm anyone.
And if Renan also wins the election, I will show humility.
Renan, I'll get his phone number.
Answer me, please.
Let's deal with Minas.
Any candidate, whether Caiado or Zema himself, who was governor here as well.
About: renegotiate the State's debt with the federal government
So whoever wins the election, you can be sure that I will stay on top of it, respectfully, so that we can address the state's debt.
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Senator, you say that renegotiating the state's debt with the Union is a priority for you.
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Have you already thought about who would be your Secretary of Finance?
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Once, in an interview you gave me, even when you announced that Falcão would be your running mate, you mentioned Paulo Guedes, who was Jair Bolsonaro's minister.
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Who will be your Secretary of Finance?
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Which ministry should Medioli and that mayor of Betim you mentioned occupy?
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And who is the education civil servant who should be the secretary of that department?
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
No, first, Edilene, the education civil servant is still a matter I will discuss with the education professionals themselves.
So I will listen to the education professionals; they will be, I believe, many names, and based on that we will work.
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
But I have already made a point of making it clear that it will be a woman and a career civil servant.
About: consult governors/experts to appoint the Finance Secretary
Regarding the Secretariat of Finance, I'm arranging a meeting with Governor Tarcísio, because Tarcísio, for me, needs no introduction, right?
He is governing the State of São Paulo; Tarcísio's approval today must be close to 70%.
So, I'm here to learn, to be able to evolve; I want to learn from those who know how to do it.
About: consult governors/experts to appoint the Planning Secretary
So I'll go to Tarcísio and one of the pieces of guidance I want to ask from him is a suggestion: if he has someone inside, whether here in Minas Gerais or even in São Paulo, a Secretary of Finance he could advise me and recommend to me, because that is extremely important for us — both the Secretariat of Finance and the Secretariat of Planning.
Regarding Medioli, I made that invitation to him; to be clear, it was Cleitinho.
Alright, I'll study it, because, Edilene, he is a candidate for state deputy, he's running in the election, so if he wins the election, I don't know whether you would want, in that case, him to continue his term as state deputy, or whether he will accept this invitation, but he could be Secretary of Government, he could be Secretary of Infrastructure — it's in his heart.
I extended this invitation to him and I'm sure that if he wins the election as deputy as well, I believe, for the good of Minas Gerais, because of the administrative experience he has.
for having been re-elected mayor of Petim and he will help me a lot.
About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector
And as I told you, I want to surround myself with capable people.
and most importantly, it's not just about being capable, you know?
Honest people, people who have good intentions in public administration, who understand that the interest is collective and not individual, not an interest for some.
The interest will be only for Minas Gerais.
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Now, candidate, many of your proposals carry a cost — a fiscal cost, a resource cost.
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And I note that you do not necessarily indicate the source of revenue to implement these proposals.
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Here I include salary restoration for the police, an end to queues, and the very issue of IPVA.
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Where do you intend to get the resources to implement your proposals?
About: exempt vehicles over 20 years old from IPVA
Excellent question, because I even had a PEC approved here in the Senate, which Cleitinho always talks about — he's more of an overseer, he points out the accusations, he oversees — but I managed to... get a PEC approved, right, which was just at the end of the year, and it extremely benefited two states, Pernambuco and Minas Gerais, which were charging IPVA on cars even up to 50 years old, even a 60-year-old car here in Minas Gerais was being charged IPVA.
Other states already have limits, right, one is 10, another is 15; we set this limit at 20 years.
About: exempt vehicles over 20 years old from IPVA
So Minas Gerais now had one — it was benefited now — that if a car is over 20 years it no longer pays IPVA.
Those people... Here in Minas Gerais there were 4 million vehicles that this year will not pay.
So, I want to leave you with a challenge here: it seems that, removing it from revenue now, it will amount to, I think Matheus even said this, if I’m not mistaken it will be 1 billion reais, right?
That the State will stop collecting.
I guarantee you the State will not stop collecting.
About: stimulate the economy by reducing income tax for workers
I'll give you a simple example.
We have to stop thinking that when we remove a tax, the person will take that money and put it in their pocket.
The worker isn't stingy like some billionaires, no.
The worker, he takes... I'll give you an example.
that happened to me.
When I did this in January, when a worker there in Minas Gerais went to pay his IPVA, a Palio of R$1,995.00 with a value of R$800.00, he sent me a message on Instagram.
He said, 'Cleitinho, I want to thank you, because I was going to pay this IPVA now, I wouldn't have money to buy diapers for my daughter.'
I took that money and bought diapers.
He didn't stash that money in a drawer, he took that money and injected it back into the economy.
So I issue a challenge to you here.
I guarantee you that this 1 billion they’re saying the State will stop collecting, it will collect more, it will not stop collecting.
About: review and make parliamentary amendments and tax benefits transparent
And under this situation, both the restoration and even this issue of IPVA, the State stopped collecting through tax exemptions almost... billions of reais.
Am I against tax exemptions?
No.
I want to know the counterparty.
I don't want to keep the tax exemption secret.
The principle of public administration is called transparency.
What is the reason to put the tax exemption in secrecy?
Who is being benefited?
So we're going to look at exemption by exemption, look at each company... What is the counter-benefit?
What job creation?
If it's not providing counter-benefit or job creation, it will pay.
That's where I'm going to take to be able to do this.
About: increase public sector efficiency by at least 1% per year
And from others, we can also collect more.
I have to make the State efficient here.
I have to understand that the State is a source of expenditure.
Who is the source of wealth?
It's the entrepreneur.
About: debureaucratize the state
I have to eliminate bureaucracy.
About: value and support entrepreneurs from Minas Gerais
I have to value the greatest source of wealth here, which is the entrepreneur here in Minas Gerais.
It's the business owner.
It's the industries.
And that's what I want to do.
End bureaucracy.
Don't make things harder to make them easier.
About: investigate and punish corruption in public administration
We also saw several accusations now about the environmental issue, that the mining companies were paying bribes to some, including politicians, who are even being indicted now; they received almost R$8 million in bribes, which yielded profits for those companies of almost R$20 billion.
This here in Minas Gerais will end.
About: implement artificial intelligence in the state tax administration
The state revenue service — I want to put artificial intelligence inside the state revenue service, structure it, because we want to know who is granting exemptions.
I want to know who these big players are who are doing this.
Why does the small producer have to pay their taxes rigorously while the big one is not paying?
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