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Renan Santos????? - Por que Lula não quer ir ao debate comigo?
61 statements · 1 politicians · August 17, 2026 · 2 min
Statements by Renan Santos. 61 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Electoral Strategy, Combating Impunity, Monetary Policy, Fiscal and Social Policy.
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- Neutral
About: attend electoral debates
They're saying all over the place that Lula ran away from me in the debates.
It's coming out in the press and I'm going to explain to you the real reason.
- Against
About: associate absence from debates with cases of corruption
And it has nothing to do with corruption.
Pay close attention.
- Neutral
About: attend electoral debates
Lula ran from the debates, Lula doesn't want to face me, he can't stand to see me as if I were the devil on the cross.
And the problem is this news that's coming out today, it's on everyone's front page.
Households are going to go under.
But you ask, how's that?
One company went bankrupt, Lula ran from the debate?
It's because it's not exactly a single company going under.
- Neutral
About: implement policies to preserve jobs and prevent company bankruptcies
Not only is it a giant company, but it's part of almost 8,000 companies that filed for judicial reorganization just now.
- Neutral
About: implement policies to preserve jobs and prevent company bankruptcies
It's a record in Brazil's history.
- Neutral
About: implement policies to preserve jobs and prevent company bankruptcies
Never have so many companies filed for judicial reorganization.
And what does something like that mean?
- Neutral
About: preserve the balance of public finances
It means that Brazil... went broke.
- Neutral
About: preserve the balance of public finances
Your country went broke.
- Neutral
About: preserve the balance of public finances
My friend, Brazil went broke.
- Neutral
About: preserve the balance of public finances
The chart you're seeing there is no joke.
- Neutral
About: preserve the balance of public finances
Brazil went broke.
- Neutral
About: attract investors and stimulate an investment climate
When a bunch of big companies start going under, everyone filing for judicial reorganization, it's because doing business here doesn't make sense.
But what's Lula's fault in all this?
I'll give you some clear examples.
- For
About: implement public spending controls and fiscal austerity policies
Remember he gave electricity to everyone?
- For
About: implement public spending controls and fiscal austerity policies
Remember he kept increasing spending on all the soy?
- For
About: implement public spending controls and fiscal austerity policies
Remember the COP30 that they spent billions on?
- For
About: implement public spending controls and fiscal austerity policies
Remember Janja's trips?
- For
About: implement public spending controls and fiscal austerity policies
All that costs a lot of money.
- For
About: implement public spending controls and fiscal austerity policies
When the government spends a lot, what happens?
- For
About: implement public spending controls and fiscal austerity policies
Everyone knows the government won't be able in the long run to pay its expenses, because the debt keeps getting high.
- For
About: reduce the Selic rate
When that happens... interest rates go up.
- Against
About: reduce the Selic rate
And the interest the government charges, the famous Selic rate, it's bizarre.
- Against
About: reduce the Selic rate
Brazil has one of the highest real interest rates in the world, if not the highest real interest rate in the world.
Nothing compares to Brazil.
- For
About: reduce the Selic rate
And companies can't plan long term, sell products, take on debt to invest with interest rates like that.
What happens?
The company goes under.
- Neutral
About: preserve the balance of public finances
And then, everyone's going under.
- Neutral
About: preserve the balance of public finances
That's what's happening.
- For
About: implement policies to preserve jobs and prevent company bankruptcies
But when everyone's going under, who pays the bill, which are the workers' companies, they can't take it anymore.
- Neutral
About: reduce public debt and combat embezzlement/corruption to balance the books
Then the government doesn't have money to pay the bills, which is what's happening now.
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