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VALE GÁS DO POVO? LULA TE ENGANOU
51 statements · 1 politicians · March 31, 2026 · 4 min
Statements by Nikolas Ferreira. 51 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Family assistance, Legislative Process, Populism and Vote-Buying, Poverty Reduction.
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- Neutral
About: reduce fees charged in the gas distribution program
Beneficiaries of the People's Gas complain about fees and about cities with no registered retailer.
I warned you.
- Neutral
About: vote against the bill that creates the Gás do Povo
At the time, only 29 out of 513 deputies voted against.
- Neutral
About: vote against the bill that creates the Gás do Povo
And I was one of them.
And then, obviously, what happened?
- Neutral
About: provide free gas cylinders to poor families
The little gossip pages came along, right, saying, 'Nicolas votes against the People's Gas, which guarantees a free gas cylinder for poor families.'
Asking to be allowed to spread that information as if I had done something bad to the population.
About: keep cash aid directly in accounts for gas purchases
Whereas all I did was explain the obvious, that Lula was complicating something that had already... been created.
About: keep cash aid directly in accounts for gas purchases
Obviously I voted against Lula's 'people's project'; I am in favor of the Brazilians' Gas, which is a program that already exists and which Lula only wants to complicate.
- Neutral
About: transfer aid directly to beneficiaries
Before, the benefit went straight into the mother's account and she decided where to buy.
About: keep cash aid directly in accounts for gas purchases
And now, Lula wants to force you to pick up your gas at government-authorized retailers and, in the end, it will make your gas more expensive and is intended to keep people trapped in order to get votes in the elections.
Ah, but I don't believe this Nicolas; I don't think it's like that either.
So listen to this fellow here, my son, maybe then you'll believe it, right?
About: keep cash aid directly in accounts for gas purchases
And before it would go onto her card, now she'll have to take the donkey and carry it beyond the rock.
Did you notice he's saying exactly what we said on February 3rd?
- Neutral
About: transfer aid directly to beneficiaries
that Maria and José's money used to be deposited into their account and now it isn't anymore.
About: keep cash aid directly in accounts for gas purchases
In other words, it will bureaucratize and worsen access to this gas, because now you'll have to pick it up only at an accredited agency.
About: keep cash aid directly in accounts for gas purchases
Consequently it will become more expensive, because, obviously, now he will have to go only to the accredited outlet and travel to it, as he explained.
So, will there be a headline saying, 'Nicolas was right, now the People's Gas has become more complicated'?
I don't think so, right?
About: prevent the use of social programs to obtain votes
And about the fact I was saying that this kind of social assistance is nothing more than electoral slavery, it goes without saying that I was right too, right?
- Neutral
About: provide social programs
More than 94 million Brazilians use some type of government social program.
- Neutral
About: provide social programs
That means nearly half of Brazil receives government aid.
Ah, Nicolas, so you mean you're against the aid?
So nobody should receive it then?
Of course not, you genius.
About: direct aid to the most vulnerable people
Aid does need to reach the most vulnerable, poor, miserable people in this country, who truly need help to be able, for example, to feed themselves.
About: transition Bolsa Família beneficiaries to formal employment and entrepreneurship with initial financial support
But it should be temporary, precisely because they need to get out of that condition.
That's what a government wants.
About: reduce poverty and promote income growth
Not celebrating that your own people, after 20 years in government, don't have money to have gas in their kitchen.
- Neutral
About: reduce poverty and promote income growth
But being able to celebrate that, look, after the aid, we managed to lift millions out of poverty.
About: prevent the use of social programs to obtain votes
What you can't have is the PT coming to say it took Brazil out of poverty and then every four years go visit the poor person it supposedly took out of poverty.
- Neutral
About: reduce default rates among the population
Now, here's an even more frightening figure: almost 82 million Brazilians are in default.
About: transition Bolsa Família beneficiaries to formal employment and entrepreneurship with initial financial support
In other words, on one side you have 94 million Brazilians who depend on the government, that is, are unable to support themselves, and on the other side you have 82 million people who are in default, which means they can't pay their bills on time.
- Neutral
About: reduce indebtedness of Brazilian families
So, the country is dependent and indebted at the same time.
So, be very wary, because the folks who have run the country all these years will try to blame a deputy, for example, as if I were the enemy of the people for telling the people the truth.
About: improve state public management
And who is the real enemy of the people, who had the chance to change many things in our country, continues promising things but doing exactly the opposite.
About: prevent the use of social programs to obtain votes
By making Brazilians dependent on their government, only so they can show up at election time and ask for their vote.
Once again.
So this video is for you who often believe only the headlines and end up thinking I'm the enemy of the people.
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