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Sessão Deliberativa Extraordinária Presencial (AM nº 123/2020)
117 statements · 1 politicians · July 9, 2025
Statements by Nikolas Ferreira. 117 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Fiscal Reform, Judiciary, Political Reform, Intergovernmental Relations.
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Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, yesterday the voting here ended late.
I confess that people are left stunned; they expect us to vote for something that actually changes the reality of the country.
- Against
About: reduce government spending
Are we voting for spending cuts once again?
- Neutral
About: reduce Judiciary spending
On the contrary. Our Judiciary, which is the most expensive in the world, Deputy Zucco, spends 152 billion a year.
- Against
About: increase number of positions in the STF
STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) alone contributed nearly 1 billion to the 2025 Budget, and still has the nerve to say it needs more functions, more positions.
It's the Brazilian people who pay this bill.
It is the poorest who are paying this bill.
And they come and say that they defend the poorest and that we defend the richest.
Those who want to give the Ministers of the STF more advisers are not us; it's you.
- Against
About: increase number of Deputies
I voted against increasing the number of Deputies and I direct a "no" vote on this kind of measure. The guidance is "yes", Mr. President.
Thank you, Mr. President. I was cited. If the United States were invading Brazil, Deputy Boulos would be on the side of the United States, yet he is taxing Brazil.
Now, whose fault is it? It is written here in the letter, this is not something I made up.
It is written here, with regard to Bolsonaro: "This trial should not be taking place.
About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
"It is a witch hunt that should end immediately!" And, in the second paragraph, he speaks of free elections in Brazil and of the fundamental rights of Americans' freedom of expression that the Brazilian Supreme Court is breaking.
About: restore good diplomatic relations with the United States
The blame for this tariff lies with Lula and with Moraes, who have destroyed not only our freedom but also that of Americans.
About: not impose tariffs on Brazilian products
Do you want the taxation on Brazil to be lifted?
About: restore good diplomatic relations with the United States
That is in your hands. Start having a good relationship.
About: adopt a diplomatic stance and avoid public insults by representatives
Ask Janja to shut up for a month and stop calling people "vira-lata", stop insulting Elon Musk, so we can really have diplomacy, because then it will be resolved. It is in your hands.
- Neutral
About: not impose tariffs on Brazilian products
Thank you, Mr. President. The big question tonight is: whose fault is the 50% tariff imposed by the United States on Brazil?
I will not do like the Left and invent who is to blame.
I will read Trump's letter. It's much easier.
In the first paragraph, he says the following: The way Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a highly respected leader around the world (...), is an international disgrace.
About: ensure the Judiciary's independence and impartiality
This trial should not be taking place. It is a Witch Hunt that must end immediately.
About: ensure that content removal on social networks respects due process and adversarial rights
In the second paragraph, he says: In part due to Brazil's insidious attacks against free elections and the fundamental violation of Americans' freedom of expression (as recently demonstrated by the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) of Brazil, which issued hundreds of secret and illegal censorship orders to U.S. social media platforms (...), as of August 1, 2025, we will charge Brazil a 50% tariff on all and any Brazilian exports to the United States (...).
About: restore good diplomatic relations with the United States
The ball to resolve this is in your hands, it is in Lula's hands and it is in the STF's hands.
What are you going to say this is?
Is it a failure to defend the sovereignty of our country?
On the contrary. Those who do not defend our country's sovereignty are those who impose taxes on their own country.
Who is worse: the one who applies an economic sanction on another country to defend freedom, or those, like Haddad and the PT, who impose taxes on their own people to be able to fund all the perks of this Government?
I heard that Lula — the Left, actually — is saying that we are not defending national sovereignty.
Wait a minute! Wasn't Lula defending now the former President of Argentina who was convicted?
What is that? Isn't that interference? When Janja, our number 10 jersey, goes and tells Xi Jinping to censor the networks here, isn't that interference in national sovereignty?
We have the Foro de São Paulo, Deputy, which, since 1990, was founded along with Fidel Castro, and Lula says, in the 2000s: "All the countries of Latin America now have a leftist President."
Isn't that infringing on national sovereignty? Now, you know what I found interesting, Deputy Gayer?
Lula was questioned about this today.
Do you know what his answer was? I don't know, because he didn't say.
If this were Bolsonaro's and the Right's fault, he would have said so.
I am eager to know the answer from the President of the Republic of Brazil about whose fault it really is.
Trump has already made this very clear. (Displays document.) You don't have to believe me, no.
You can go on the Internet and see it. When we are...
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