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"NENHUM pré-candidato tem CORAGEM DE FALAR O QUE EU FALO" | Romeu Zema na 98 News
282 statements · 1 politicians · February 20, 2026 · 27 min
Statements by Romeu Zema. 282 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Electoral Strategy, State policy, Public Budget, Monetary Policy.
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Good morning, Guilherme.
Good morning, Paulo.
Good morning, Laura.
It's a great pleasure to be here once again, and good morning to everyone watching us.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: run for the presidency
Governor, you are already in the final stretch of your second term and are also preparing to leave the government for your presidential pre-campaign.
Desconhecido
I wanted to start... I'm looking back at what you've done since you took office in Minas in 2019.
Desconhecido
Are you leaving with the mission accomplished—50% of it, 80% of it?
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: ensure continuity of state government projects
What still remains to be done and what will be left for Vice-Governor Matheus Simões at the end of the year?
- For
About: implement changes in the management of the State of São Paulo
Well, Guilherme... I am handing over to Vice-Governor Matheus Simões, within 40 days, a State much better than the one I received from Pimentel PT (Workers' Party) seven years and two months ago.
- Neutral
About: ensure timely payroll payments and transfers to municipalities
I should recall that the accounts were completely overdue, public employees didn't know when or if they would receive their 13th salary.
- For
About: ensure timely payroll payments and transfers to municipalities
Mayors weren't receiving transfers for ICMS or IPVA, nor for Education or Health; there was a huge graveyard of abandoned, vandalized public works, and that's in the past now.
We have made progress.
I'm not saying the State is perfect, no.
- For
About: create formal jobs
But major advances were made: one million formal jobs created.
- For
About: attract investors and stimulate an investment climate
More than 100 billion dollars in private investment, 530 billion reais.
- For
About: adhere to Propag to restructure the state debt
And today Minas Gerais, in addition to having the accounts up to date, has already joined Propag, which means that the next governors will not govern with a noose around their necks, as I had to.
My administration was a very difficult one.
- For
About: improve state public finances
A government that paid debts, put the house in order — so it wasn't an easy government.
- For
About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects
And they're going to hand him a large construction site already underway.
- For
About: expand the metro network
Look at the metro expansion after 23 years.
And I never promised a metro, no.
- For
About: expand the metro network
And there it is: we've already delivered one station and there are six more stations ahead.
- For
About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects
And in the past you know there were people who promised and never delivered.
- For
About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects
I did the opposite: I didn't promise and I'm delivering.
- For
About: increase investment in public infrastructure
And with detail — with funds reserved for completion.
- For
About: build and fund a ring road to relieve urban traffic
Rodoanel Metropolitano, there it is.
- For
About: build and fund a ring road to relieve urban traffic
Already granted, just waiting for the environmental license; 5 billion deposited in an account for the work, regardless of the election, the State's financial condition, or the political scenario — it will come off the drawing board.
- For
About: duplicate and revitalize state highways
The duplication for Belo Horizonte, Ouro Preto and Mariana, the same thing granted; there is 1.5 billion deposited for the execution of that work as well.
- For
About: pave state roads and build bridges
Duplication for Brumadinho and many others, two bridges over the São Francisco River that are under construction.
- For
About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects
That in the past was promised and never done.
- For
About: speed up execution of public works and infrastructure projects
And I, who never promised, am delivering.
So that's a very big difference.
- For
About: continue executing long-term structural projects
I'm very happy to see Minas' progress, but we still have a lot to do ahead.
Matheus Simões has great challenges.
But he's got the train on the tracks and is already prospering.
And I picked up the train from the bottom of the ocean and had to take it out and fix it.
So, Minas has improved and will continue to do so.
All those projects I mentioned, Guilherme, are long-term, structural projects.
So, as these are implemented and delivered, the State will keep improving.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: reduce public debt
Governor, despite this scenario of execution, of transformation of what you received — because you are delivering — Minas still has a quite complicated situation regarding its debt and its management.
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