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Flávio Bolsonaro - Cada real gasto que o governo Lula desperdiça é uma hora do seu traba...
42 statements · 1 politicians · August 18, 2026 · 4 min
Statements by Flavio Bolsonaro. 42 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Use of Public Funds, Public Service, Debureaucratization & Digitalization, Tariff Policy.
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About: reduce public spending by the federal government
Look, I'm going to make this big cut with a lot of enthusiasm, because that's how President Bolsonaro began his administration.
- Neutral
About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending
Right at the start of President Bolsonaro's administration, he cut 20,000 commissioned positions with a single stroke of the pen.
- Against
About: create commissioned positions
Do you know how many commissioned positions Lula has already created during his administration?
22 thousand.
- Neutral
About: create commissioned positions
The 20 that Bolsonaro had cut, plus two more.
About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending
22 is even a good number, but we'll also make a massive cut to these commissioned positions.
About: debureaucratize the state
We're talking about making a massive cut to normative instructions, ordinances, many things that brought bureaucracy back that we had cut during President Bolsonaro's government.
So, there's a special person on my team, Antônio Saxida, who is an economist, a great economist, worked with us, and was once Minister of Mines and Energy.
About: debureaucratize the state
He is already doing work so that, starting on the 1st, we will also make a big cut to all that bureaucracy.
- Neutral
About: debureaucratize the state
He's doing an inventory; there will be more than a thousand.
About: debureaucratize the state
Regulations that will be cut right off the bat as well.
About: reduce taxation on capital
There are some taxes we'll have to cut right from the start as well.
- Neutral
About: establish an export tax on oil
For example, Lula created an export tax on oil to try to ensure that the oil produced here in Brazil would stay in Brazil and not be exported because of the war that is happening and that is closing off the Strait of Ormã.
- Neutral
About: establish an export tax on meat
In the Middle East, something Argentina also did recently, there with the leftist Néstor Kirchner, when he created an export tax on meats, what happened?
- Neutral
About: establish an export tax on meat
Thinking that the manufacturers, the beef producers in Argentina would not export.
About: reduce federal taxes
When he creates the tax to make the export of that product unviable, what was the consequence?
- Neutral
About: establish an export tax on meat
People stopped producing meat in Argentina; shortages began; meat became expensive; it caused inflation and it disappeared from the shelves.
About: reduce the tax burden on goods and services
And Lula did the same here, it makes fuel more expensive, it doesn't solve the problem, it doesn't protect the citizen who goes to the pump.
To fill up your car, your motorcycle, or to put gasoline or diesel in your little boat with an outboard motor.
About: set the oil export tax to zero
So this, for example, is a practical example of a tax that we'll cut right from the start.
- Neutral
About: establish a 25% tax on parts for building data centers
There's another tax he created that is making it unfeasible to attract the construction of data centers here in Brazil, which is a 25% tax on the parts used in building data centers so that they would be made here in Brazil.
- Neutral
About: reduce taxes that hinder data center construction
That is, it blocks several opportunities Brazil could be having right now.
About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending
And the massive cuts will also be in ministries.
I'll give just one example here of what the waste is like.
- Neutral
About: increase the number of ministries in the federal government
Lula has 39 ministries.
- Neutral
About: ensure the Central Bank's independence and technical autonomy
President Bolsonaro had 23 and even made the Central Bank independent because it was also considered a ministry.
So I'll give you an example here.
About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending
I can merge all these ministries here: Ports and Airports, that's one.
Transport is another.
Integration and Regional Development is another.
Cities is another.
About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending
It's just an example that we can gather all this into just the Ministry of Infrastructure.
And we can make it the Ministry of Infrastructure.
- Ambiguous
About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending
I'm not saying here that I'm going to do this exactly.
About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending
I'm giving a quick example here that it's possible to slim down the ministries.
About: implement technology- and AI-based governance in the federal government
Because when we modernize the public administration, and I will also implement governance based on technology and artificial intelligence.
About: implement technology- and AI-based governance in the federal government
The Brazilian government will do the same.
Singapore and South Korea did it.
About: implement technology- and AI-based governance in the federal government
There will be governance here based on artificial intelligence.
About: monitor public spending in real time with transparency
Every cent of public money will be monitored in real time with transparency to avoid waste.
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