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DEBATE COMPLETO RENAN SANTOS no INSTITUTO UNIDOS BRASIL!
819 statements · 1 politicians · August 18, 2026 · 70 min
Statements by Renan Santos. 819 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Fiscal and Social Policy, Education, Combating Impunity, Social Security.
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Thank you, Nabil.
Thank you, Castilho.
- Neutral
About: reduce public debt and combat embezzlement/corruption to balance the books
To greet our longtime senator Anamélia, our deputy Kim Kataguiri, awarded every year by the Politicians' Ranking, fiscal problems, public indebtedness, endemic corruption.
I could be speaking about 2026 as much as 2016, at the birth of the Movimento Brasil Livre, where you gave a great cry of hope for Brazil during the impeachment of the president, then-president Dilma Rousseff.
Brazil, since then, has moved forward, we have progressed, but we have still progressed in a very incipient way.
- Neutral
About: improve literacy and numeracy
Today we have some 90 million people without access to basic sanitation, 4 million illiterates, ranking in the hundreds, thirties and sevenths in the economic freedom index.
So we are caught up in the same chaos.
United by that sentiment, and led by Luan Esperandio, who is also director of the Politicians' Ranking, we made a modest contribution.
which was precisely the creation of this book that we are handing to all the pre-candidates, now candidates for the presidency of the Republic.
I know that regarding proposals for the presidency, Missão indeed took the lead, and took it well, but they are confidential contributions for the Brazil we desire and the Brazil we can actually achieve.
So count on us always.
We wish you luck on this journey and hope that we emerge from this election with a Brazil of hope.
Alexandre Dumas, in The Count of Monte Cristo, quotes this.
To wait and to have hope is what remains for Brazil.
So, good luck, candidate.
Thank you, thank you, Juan.
Renan will give his presentation for about 30 minutes.
Afterwards he will answer some questions.
Then we'll go to lunch and he will be able to mingle with all of you during lunch.
Renan, please.
Hello.
My friends, thank you very much for the honor of being here with you.
Always a pleasure to meet new people and reconnect with old friends.
Rodrigo is here; he is one of the main architects of the liberal movement, and Luan I can mention as well.
So, for me, I am truly happy.
And indeed, Juan, the question you raised is very interesting, because we have moved forward, evolved in some areas, but it seems that Brazil is worse off.
And where is it worse?
Brazil has given up.
I think it's... Obviously, for those who don't know, I am a candidate for the presidency of the Republic, my number is 14 — remember that, it's always good to exercise your memory.
That said, I have been in this contest, in this fight since 2014 as well; the numbers... There's something almost cabalistic — I was also born on the 14th.
And what I can tell you is that I've never seen such a great feeling of giving up within the country.
And, in fact, our candidacy stands apart from that, because this is a moment in which the political-institutional design for these elections was built to ensure that Lula goes for re-election.
facing a weak candidate like Flávio Bolsonaro, tainted by corruption scandals, beat him in the runoff and everything keeps moving sideways, like a crab — sideways, slowly, with companies, as was shown on the counter there, ceasing to exist.
slowly, with social benefits arriving, but we no longer know how they will be paid for, with a certain elite distancing itself from reality.
And many of our best Brazilian names, especially among young people, are leaving Brazil; in all of this out there, there's a sense of giving up.
And I've never seen such a strong feeling.
And it manifests itself in every respect.
In '15, '16, when we started, there was the whole Lava Jato operation, the fall of the Dilma government, there was a strange feeling of hope.
For the first time we were seeing wealthy people linked to crime — not organized crime in the classic sense, but a kind of organized crime: political crime.
together with politicians being arrested.
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