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EU FUI PERSEGUIDO POR FAZER ISSO... | Romeu Zema no Os Sócios
56 classified statements · 1 politicians · February 11, 2026 · 6 min
Statements by Romeu Zema. 56 excerpts classified by topic and stance. Topics: Public Service, Public Health / Public Safety, Education.
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Desconhecido
0:00
And what major differences did you notice in the way the private sector operates versus the public sector, the main ones?
Desconhecido
0:07
And I also wanted to know whether your experience in retail helped you.
Desconhecido
0:10
Because I really like it when I meet executives who have worked in retail, because margins are always very tight.
Desconhecido
0:17
So if someone isn't attentive to costs, before long they'll go into the red, you know?
Desconhecido
0:22
And then when that person arrives at a company with great margins, they say, 'wow, this is a different life.'
Desconhecido
0:27
But I wanted to know whether you were able to bring the lessons from the private world into the public sector and actually apply them.
Romeu Zema
0:34
You put it very well: retail companies have minimal margins; in fact, if you look at the retailers from 30 years ago, few are still around today.
Romeu Zema
0:46
I think about 90% are gone.
Romeu Zema
0:48
And many of those that remain are limping along.
Romeu Zema
0:50
And it's currently a very difficult period.
Romeu Zema
0:53
I get updates from my company there, which I sometimes learn about; we are paying to work.
Romeu Zema
1:02
And many retailers are in that situation.
Romeu Zema
1:06
E‑commerce came on strong, delinquency is high, interest rates are high.
Romeu Zema
1:14
The consumer has changed a lot; Betis arrived, other competitors appeared that never existed before.
Romeu Zema
1:21
So traditional retail, which is our case there, has suffered a lot.
Romeu Zema
1:28
But it helps a lot, because I've always noticed, Bruno and Malu, that you need, above all, to put together a good team.
Romeu Zema
1:39
And we have excellent people in the public sector.
Romeu Zema
1:43
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
Remember that in the public sector you have many civil servants who passed public competitive exams, who are capable, but usually these people are relegated to a secondary role by politicking.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence criticizes politicking that sidelines public servants hired via competitive exams, advocating technical appointments.
Romeu Zema
1:55
Let's take the case of Minas Gerais.
Romeu Zema
1:58
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
Never before had a career official from the Secretariat of the Environment or the Secretariat of Education served as Secretary of the Environment or Secretary of Education.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence reports that career civil servants were never secretaries, implying a change.
Romeu Zema
2:14
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
It's the same as in a company, Bruno, saying, 'look, you here can grow, but you'll never be the company's president.'
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence makes an analogy about limiting careers, suggesting support for promotion by merit.
Romeu Zema
2:22
Do you understand?
Romeu Zema
2:24
Do you agree that this is a cold shower to the morale, to the enthusiasm of someone who wants to grow?
Romeu Zema
2:30
So there, in Minas, and I think in much of Brazil, it works like that.
Romeu Zema
2:35
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
But we held a selection process and, for the first time in history, put a woman in charge of the Secretariat of the Environment who is a career official there; we put a former director, a professor, in charge of the Secretariat of Education.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence claims to have run a selection process and appointed career civil servants.
Romeu Zema
2:56
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
And when you have good people, and we carried out a selection process — including headhunters, which we used when I won the 2018 election — you start to have an edge.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence mentions using selection processes and headhunters as a management differentiator.
Romeu Zema
3:08
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
The public sector doesn't like competent people.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence claims the public sector resists competence, implying support for change.
Romeu Zema
3:13
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
It prefers people who go there to engage in politicking.
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence criticizes appointments made for political reasons, favoring technical selections.
Romeu Zema
3:16
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
That's why healthcare doesn't make progress, that's why public security doesn't make progress in Brazil.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence attributes health sector stagnation to political maneuvering and calls for technical appointments.
Romeu Zema
3:22
This is the big problem of the public sector.
Romeu Zema
3:25
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
They put there people who are more campaign operatives than people who understand health, security, education, public security.
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence criticizes placing political operatives in education secretariats, advocating technical appointments.
Romeu Zema
3:34
About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending
And there... We are today, Bruno, the state that has the fewest secretariats.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence portrays the state as leaner, claiming a reduction in secretariats.
Romeu Zema
3:42
About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending
If you were to do a survey, despite Minas being the second most populous state in Brazil — second only to São Paulo — we are the leanest state, with 14 secretariats.
Why it was classified this way · 74% confidence highlights having 14 secretariats as an example of administrative downsizing.
Romeu Zema
3:55
About: streamline the public apparatus and reduce government spending
Many cities in the interior have more secretaries than we have there.
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence compares the number of secretaries, advocating for a leaner public administration.
Romeu Zema
3:59
Now, do you need three dentists in your mouth to solve your tooth problem?
Romeu Zema
4:04
You don't need to.
Romeu Zema
4:05
One good dentist will do.
Romeu Zema
4:08
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
And that's how we did it there.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence says they implemented management changes upon taking office.
Romeu Zema
4:09
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
So the public sector, besides having good people, has the politicking that, in my opinion, causes these people to be underutilized and also indignant.
Why it was classified this way · 87% confidence Repeats criticism of politicking that underutilizes civil servants, advocating meritocracy.
Romeu Zema
4:22
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
And we got there by making that change.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence Claims he arrived making changes against politicking.
Romeu Zema
4:25
About: implement the Managerial Responsibility Law for city management
Now, it helped a lot. Besides that personnel approach I've always had—always keeping the best, constantly selecting your team—the issue of having targets and follow-up simply didn't exist.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Explicitly defends having targets and monitoring in public management.
Romeu Zema
4:41
About: implement the Managerial Responsibility Law for city management
The former governor of Minas, Fernando Pimentel, from PT, the information I have is that he was there for four years and didn't hold a single cabinet meeting.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Criticizes the lack of secretariat meetings, advocating follow-up.
Romeu Zema
4:53
I don't know how that works.
Romeu Zema
4:55
About: implement the Managerial Responsibility Law for city management
I hold at least two a month.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence Claims to have implemented regular meetings to monitor policies.
Romeu Zema
4:58
to be able to monitor, set the guidelines, and discuss some issues.
Romeu Zema
5:04
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
But I think the thinking in the past was different: it was to dole out positions.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Contrasts loteamento with meritocracy, advocating technical appointments.
Romeu Zema
5:09
It was about talking to the party.
Romeu Zema
5:10
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
like, 'this secretariat here is yours, you do whatever you see fit here.'
Why it was classified this way · 84% confidence Reproduces a speech about loteamento, implying opposition to that practice.
Romeu Zema
5:15
There was no need to talk to anyone about anything.
Romeu Zema
5:18
About: implement the Managerial Responsibility Law for city management
I don't think any company or institution functions if you don't have a well-oiled process.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Argues that institutions need an integrated process across areas.
Romeu Zema
5:25
About: implement the Managerial Responsibility Law for city management
If procurement isn't communicating with production, which communicates with sales, which communicates with marketing, which communicates with finance, do you agree?
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Uses the example (purchasing, production, sales) to argue for coordination.
Romeu Zema
5:34
About: implement the Managerial Responsibility Law for city management
There, nobody talked to anyone.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Complains that previously no one communicated, advocating integration between areas.
Romeu Zema
5:36
About: implement the Managerial Responsibility Law for city management
So you can see how the public sector in Brazil lacks efficiency, because everyone is only looking at their own belly button.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Attributes inefficiency to lack of coordination, supporting integration measures.
Romeu Zema
5:48
About: implement the Managerial Responsibility Law for city management
without looking at the results, the synergies you can be extracting from the whole.
Why it was classified this way · 82% confidence Cites a lack of focus on results and synergies, advocating oversight.
Romeu Zema
5:53
So it's a huge source of opportunity.
Romeu Zema
5:56
About: appoint qualified career civil servants to public management positions
When someone arrives there with a vision of efficiency, with a focus on delivery, you start to make a striking difference.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Argues that managers with an efficiency mindset make a big difference.
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