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?Mateus Simões é do Centrão e Cleitinho é alinhado ao Lula?, diz Ben Mendes | Café com Política

23 statements · 1 politicians · June 29, 2026 · 2 min

Statements by Ben Mendes. 23 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified.

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  1. Desconhecido

    In recent interviews, you have said that you are the only right-wing candidate in these elections.

  2. Desconhecido

    What distinguishes you, for example, from Cleitinho and Matheus Simões, who are candidacies that also position themselves on that spectrum?

  3. Desconhecido

    What is the difference between your project and theirs?
  4. Ben Mendes
    Perfect.
  5. Ben Mendes
    Matheus Simões — his party's president is Kassab.
  6. Ben Mendes
    I don't think I even need to elaborate much.
  7. Ben Mendes
    Gilberto Kassab is the epitome of political opportunism.
  8. Ben Mendes
    which has done so much harm to Brazil.
  9. Ben Mendes
    Gilberto Kassab is the politician who was once a minister under Dilma Rousseff and who has positions in Lula's Ministry, so he goes where the band plays.
  10. Ben Mendes
    And the band plays to the personal interests, the financial interests, of these party leaders.
  11. Ben Mendes
    So that's the centrão.
  12. Ben Mendes
    Matheus Simões represents the centrão.
  13. Ben Mendes
    Matheus Simões is not right-wing.
  14. Ben Mendes
    Cleitinho Azevedo — as much as Cleitinho respects me a lot and I respect him as a person too, we have a respectful personal relationship — I don't think Cleitinho is dishonest.
  15. Ben Mendes
    As a politician, though, Cleitinho is not right-wing at all.
  16. Ben Mendes
    Why?
  17. Ben Mendes
    Because Cleitinho's main political partner here in Minas Gerais, including in political style, is André Janones.
  18. Ben Mendes
    We're from Minas, we don't forget things.
  19. Ben Mendes
    Cleitinho and Janones started together, making videos together; their way of operating is the same.
  20. Ben Mendes
    Cleitinho is one of the senators responsible for putting priests and pastors at risk of being arrested in Brazil today, simply for preaching their faith, because he supported the misogyny bill.
  21. Ben Mendes
    The misogyny bill brands Christian discourse about gender roles as criminal speech.
  22. Ben Mendes
    And Cleitinho was someone who supported it — in his words, he 'pressed the button' there, voting yes.
  23. Ben Mendes
    On this agenda, Cleitinho supports and votes almost 100% in line with the Lula government's positions.
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