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De EMPREENDEDOR a GOVERNADOR de Minas Gerais | Zema conta sua trajetória no Os Sócios
123 classified statements · 1 politicians · February 3, 2026 · 76 min
Statements by Romeu Zema. 123 excerpts classified by topic and stance. Topics: Public Service, Role of the State, State-owned companies, Public Budget.
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Romeu Zema
10:32
About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector
But it helps a lot, because I've always noticed, Bruno and Malu, that you need, above all, to build a good team.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Advocates building a strong team and values selection for the public sector.
Romeu Zema
11:40
About: hold selection processes to appoint secretaries and public managers
But we carried out a selection process and for the first time in history we put a woman in charge of the Secretariat of the Environment who is a career official there.
Why it was classified this way · 92% confidence Says he held a selection process and appointed a career professional to the Environment Secretariat.
Romeu Zema
11:53
About: hold selection processes to appoint secretaries and public managers
We placed a former director, a professor, in charge of the Secretariat of Education.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Mentions having placed a former director/professor in charge of the Secretariat, claiming action.
Romeu Zema
12:00
About: hold selection processes to appoint secretaries and public managers
And when you have good people, and we held a selection process — headhunters even, which we used when I won the election in 2018 — you already begin to have an edge.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence States use of a selection process and headhunter in appointments.
Romeu Zema
12:39
About: reduce the size of the State and bureaucracy
And there... Today, Bruno, we are the state that has the fewest secretariats.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence States 'nós somos hoje' with a smaller number of secretariats — claims action.
Romeu Zema
13:04
About: reduce the size of the State and bureaucracy
Now, do you need three dentists working on your mouth to solve your tooth problem?
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Uses an analogy (a good dentist) to justify fewer secretariats.
Romeu Zema
13:41
About: implement targets and periodic monitoring in state secretariats
The issue of having goals, of having follow-up, didn't exist.
Why it was classified this way · 66% confidence Reports a lack of targets and follow-up in the past.
Romeu Zema
14:03
About: implement targets and periodic monitoring in state secretariats
to be able to follow up, give the guidelines, discuss some issues.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Explains the purpose of the meetings: to monitor and issue guidelines.
Romeu Zema
15:01
About: improve public management
When someone arrives there with a vision of efficiency, with a focus on delivery, you begin to make a striking difference.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Argues that a focus on efficiency makes a striking difference in public management.
Romeu Zema
16:51
About: avoid political appointments to state-owned company leadership
And these companies were... Bruno, in that situation you described, the positions were political, meant to serve political favors, but first of all they were bloated, just like the State.
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence Describes the situation: state-owned companies filled with political appointments and bloated.
Romeu Zema
17:07
About: reduce the size of the State and decrease dependence on government
Between state-owned companies, the State and autonomous agencies, we cut more than 50 thousand positions.
Why it was classified this way · 92% confidence Explicit statement: 'reduzimos mais de 50 mil cargos' (concrete action).
Romeu Zema
17:23
About: ensure timely payroll payments and transfers to municipalities
The previous government paid salaries in installments, didn't pay the 13th salary, didn't make payments to suppliers or transfers to municipalities, and you had to cut back.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Criticizes delays by the previous government and implies having regularized payments.
Romeu Zema
17:40
About: improve management incentives in state-owned companies
Now, the fact that most demonstrates how a state-owned company impedes development, I'll tell you two cases I lived through.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Announces cases that prove how poor state management hinders development.
Romeu Zema
17:58
About: prioritize CEMIG investments in Minas Gerais infrastructure
CEMIG — anyone who follows it knows that around the 2010s it went to invest all over Brazil, except in Minas Gerais.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Criticizes investments made outside Minas and argues for local prioritization.
Romeu Zema
18:43
About: ensure technical independence of state-owned companies by avoiding political appointments
These four investments together caused accounting losses of more than 12 billion reais for CEMIG.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Mentions an accounting loss of R$12 billion and criticizes poor investments.
Romeu Zema
19:46
About: recover and invest in power transmission and distribution infrastructure in Minas Gerais
Besides CEMIG having that accounting loss of over 12 billion on the books, there was also the deterioration of the entire transmission and distribution infrastructure in Minas.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Denounces the dilapidation of infrastructure and implies the need for rehabilitation.
Romeu Zema
20:02
About: guarantee electricity supply to rural producers
When I ran my campaign in 2018, Bruno and Malu, what I saw most... When I arrived in a town, there was a rural producer saying, 'oh, my center pivot is stopped, it's been four years, why don't I get power?'
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence Reports producers' complaints about lack of energy, without proposing action.
Romeu Zema
20:19
About: guarantee electric power supply to industries and producers
'Oh, my factory — I had to buy a generator, I expanded production and Semig doesn't deliver power to me.'
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence Reports a supply problem and use of a generator, with no explicit proposal.
Romeu Zema
20:29
About: expand transmission and distribution infrastructure for electric power
So much so that, in my administration, to correct this, we — Semig just turned 70 years old recently.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence Says his administration acted to correct the problem (claims credit for action).
Romeu Zema
20:37
About: expand transmission and distribution infrastructure for electric power
In 70 years, it had built 400 substations.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Cites the history of substations built by the state company as descriptive information.
Romeu Zema
20:42
About: expand transmission and distribution infrastructure for electric power
In my administration, we delivered 200, to give you an idea.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Claims delivery of 200 substations during his administration (concrete action).
Romeu Zema
20:48
About: expand transmission and distribution infrastructure for electric power
In 7 years, we are building 200 to make up for that backlog.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence Says that in 7 years they built 200 substations to 'tirar o atraso'.
Romeu Zema
20:54
About: invest in materials and personnel to execute infrastructure works
Now, it's not just money that fixes this.
Why it was classified this way · 66% confidence Says that money alone isn't enough; material and personnel are needed.
Romeu Zema
21:13
About: expand transmission and distribution infrastructure for electric power
Of those 200 substations, we're already delivering the last ones.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Says the last substations were delivered as a result of his administration.
Romeu Zema
21:19
About: implement effective planning for expanding electric infrastructure
And another problem which, in this case, isn't just incompetence, no, it's lack of planning.
Why it was classified this way · 74% confidence Attributes the problem to a lack of planning and argues for corrective action.
Romeu Zema
21:28
About: invest in logistical infrastructure and renewable energy (waterway, railway, roads, solar, wind)
When I took office in Minas Gerais, it generated... 500 megawatts of photovoltaic, solar energy.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports initial generation of 500 MW when assuming office, stated without an explicit prompt.
Romeu Zema
21:48
About: invest in logistical infrastructure and renewable energy (waterway, railway, roads, solar, wind)
That means we've practically put an Itaipu inside Minas Gerais.
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence Uses 'nós' to attribute the large increase in solar to his administration.
Romeu Zema
22:16
About: authorize installation of solar plants transparently and competitively
Because CEMIG only authorized the construction of a solar plant for those who were friends of the king.
Why it was classified this way · 87% confidence Accuses the state company of authorizing only 'amigos do rei' — defends transparency.
Romeu Zema
22:26
About: authorize installation of solar plants transparently and competitively
Then the king's friend built a solar plant, which was and still is, despite changes, a very profitable business.
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence Describes favoritism in authorizations, implying a call for fair criteria.
Romeu Zema
22:50
About: authorize installation of solar plants transparently and competitively
You pay me 4 million, I'll sell it to you.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Reports that authorization was sold for payment, criticizing favoritism.
Romeu Zema
22:56
About: authorize installation of solar plants transparently and competitively
And the line wouldn't move to favor a few of the king's friends.
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence Says the line wasn't moving to favor a few — calls for transparency.
Romeu Zema
23:03
About: increase transparency and anti-corruption mechanisms in license issuance
A lot of people got rich that way while the State was left without electrical power.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence reports illicit enrichment and power outages, criticizing corruption.
Romeu Zema
23:12
About: improve management incentives in state-owned companies
When I took office, we put in a new CEO at Semig, chosen
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence says they installed a new CEO at the state-owned company as a corrective measure.
Romeu Zema
23:17
About: improve management incentives in state-owned companies
by Red Hunter, went through that whole process, and one of the things I demanded of him was a map of Minas online, which is still there to this day, anyone can consult it, showing where it's possible to get a connection.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence demands a public map and transparency in the state-owned company - claims this action as their own.
Romeu Zema
23:35
About: privatize Petrobras
So you can see how a company... can stall the development of a State and of a country.
Why it was classified this way · 82% confidence says a state-owned company can hinder development and is not a good business.
Romeu Zema
23:42
About: privatize Petrobras
That's why a state-owned company is not a good business.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence explicitly declares 'empresa estatal não é um bom negócio'.
Romeu Zema
23:45
About: privatize Correios
You mentioned the Correios there and that's a current example.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence cites Correios as a current example when criticizing state-owned companies.
- For
Desconhecido
24:05
About: privatize Correios
Because you have an entire infrastructure that was created by private competitors, who invest much more, because they make a profit and use the profit to reinvest.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence suggests that private competitors reinvest profits, a pro-market argument.
- Against
Desconhecido
24:13
About: capitalize Correios with public funds
And then to be able to solve this problem of the Correios, what's going to happen?
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence declares that the State will capitalize Correios and criticizes the use of taxes.
- Against
Desconhecido
24:19
About: allocate public funds to recapitalize loss-making state-owned companies
So it ends up that our tax money, instead of going to education, to security, goes to save the Correios.
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence criticizes that taxes would go to save Correios instead of education/security.
- For
Desconhecido
24:31
About: prioritize public investments based on science, data, and technical expertise
So I say that my task, together with the group's directors, is to allocate the assets well.
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence advocates allocating money where it yields more results, closing inefficient entities.
- Against
Desconhecido
24:51
About: capitalize Correios with public funds
They say they don't have money, don't have resources, they blame that.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence criticizes injecting public money into a business that isn't moving forward.
Romeu Zema
25:00
About: privatize Correios
And the Correios, as you said, was worth a ton of money back then, 10 years ago, 8 years ago, when privatization was being considered.
Why it was classified this way · 68% confidence states that Correios was worth much more before and has lost value today; market description.
Romeu Zema
28:27
About: donate public office salaries
And I, from the start, have always given my salary.
Why it was classified this way · 76% confidence claims to have donated his own salary while public servants were not receiving pay.
Romeu Zema
31:00
About: expand the public healthcare network
Because he believes he can contribute and health in Minas is making extraordinary progress with his management as well.
Why it was classified this way · 74% confidence attributes health improvements to the secretary's management, claiming credit for the result.
Romeu Zema
33:22
About: improve state public finances
And we proved, after seven years, that it's possible to reverse this chaotic picture.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence claims they reversed a chaotic situation in seven years, taking credit for the action.
Romeu Zema
33:29
About: implement the Managerial Responsibility Law for city management
And it's with competent people, as I told you, with targets, with monitoring.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence Argues that progress came with competent people, targets, and monitoring.
Romeu Zema
33:34
About: implement measures to prevent corruption in public administration
We didn't have a scandal in my government, we didn't have corruption.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Claims there were no scandals in the government, citing this as an anti-corruption result.
Romeu Zema
33:40
About: publish government spending and acts in full
I was criticized recently, now because of a flight I took, that I was late for.
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence States that everything they spend is posted on the transparency portal.
Romeu Zema
34:25
About: improve public management
So, in Minas we made this progress and that's what Brazil needs.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence States that the progress made in Minas is what Brazil needs.
Romeu Zema
34:31
About: improve state public finances
We went from a deficit in the PT era of R$11 billion to a surplus in 2024 of R$5 billion.
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence Presents figures moving from deficit to surplus as a result.
Romeu Zema
35:10
About: complete ongoing state public works
And I will hand over to my successor in a few months an ongoing construction site.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Says they will leave the construction site with funds deposited for completion.
Romeu Zema
36:07
About: prioritize technical management over politicking in public administration
Now, what we need in Brazil is management and not politicking.
Why it was classified this way · 82% confidence Declares the need for management, not politicking, for Brazil.
Romeu Zema
36:17
About: elect a president with an entrepreneurial profile and business experience
And there has never been a businessman running Brazil, an entrepreneur — do you agree?
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Asks why not give an entrepreneur the opportunity to run the country.
Romeu Zema
37:24
About: ensure STF respects Executive and Legislative decisions
That STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) there, I think it could recommend closing the Central Bank, closing the Federal Police, and it would assume everything.
Why it was classified this way · 87% confidence Criticizes the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) for 'se intrometer em tudo' and advocates restricting its role.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
38:09
About: reduce the public deficit (context: inherited deficit)
We could say we have about R$1 trillion of nominal deficit when you take the primary plus the interest on the debt.
Why it was classified this way · 68% confidence States the country has about R$1 trillion in deficit.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
38:16
About: improve the country's economic productivity
We are a country with stagnating productivity practically since the 1980s.
Why it was classified this way · 66% confidence Notes stagnation in productivity since the 1980s.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
38:20
About: implement pension reform
Social Security underwent reform recently, but it will have to be reformed again in the future.
Why it was classified this way · 65% confidence Says that the pension system was reformed, but may require a new reform.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
38:24
About: ensure quality public education
Education — we are in the worst positions in international exams; we are second-worst in the ranking of countries, only behind South Africa.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Reports poor performance in international exams without proposing concrete measures.
Romeu Zema
39:37
About: reduce growth of federal public spending
And Brazil — when you correct this issue of the federal government's overspending (I think you who follow the economy will agree with me) — you begin to correct a series of other problems.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Criticizes 'gastança' and says that correcting it will solve other problems.
Romeu Zema
39:51
About: reduce public debt as a proportion of GDP
The big numbers today, I think, are a federal government debt of R$8 trillion; 15% interest on R$8 trillion means R$1.2 trillion per year in interest payments alone, not considering all the other expenses.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Presents debt figures and interest calculations without proposing immediate action.
Romeu Zema
40:13
About: implement fiscal responsibility in federal public spending
Because we have a profligate, wasteful government that has no responsibility toward the future.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Calls the government 'perdulário' and demands fiscal responsibility.
Romeu Zema
40:29
About: implement fiscal responsibility in federal public spending
When a government comes in and says, 'we're going to be serious about spending, here every year...'
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Directly proposes that the next government 'seja sério com gasto'.
Romeu Zema
40:36
About: limit growth of federal public spending to a rate below inflation
If inflation is 3% I'll only allow spending to increase by 2%.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Defines an explicit rule: if inflation is 3% allow spending to increase 2%.
Romeu Zema
40:41
About: reduce the Selic rate
We'll improve the accounts, that interest rate will fall by at least half.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Claims that fiscal discipline will make the interest rate fall by half.
Romeu Zema
41:11
About: reduce the real interest rate
So, with that, besides improving public finances, you also have a gigantic impact on the private sector.
Why it was classified this way · 82% confidence Says that a fall in interest rates will allow companies to invest and modernize.
Romeu Zema
42:03
About: increase investments in public education in Paraná
Then you have the capacity to invest more in education—the municipalities, the states, the Union—you have the capacity to invest more in public security and in health.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Says that with a better economy there will be capacity to invest more in education.
Romeu Zema
42:16
About: reduce growth of federal public spending
So I say that this problem of the PT's overspending, of Lula's, is a problem that keeps Brazil stuck.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Criticizes 'gastança do PT' and points to it as an obstacle for the country.
Romeu Zema
42:36
About: implement fiscal responsibility in federal public spending
Everyone only wants to spend, spend; everyone just wants another slice, nobody wants to tighten their belt.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Rebukes a culture of excessive spending and calls for tightening the belt.
- For
Desconhecido
44:56
About: implement fiscal responsibility in federal public spending
Exactly, we can't achieve the surplus, but when someone comes in with a much more fiscally responsible stance, just that person having that stance can cause long-term interest rates to plummet.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Claims that a fiscalist stance by a new government can lower long-term interest rates.
Romeu Zema
47:02
About: reduce interest payments and prioritize social transfers
Because what it pays in interest, that 1.2 trillion, is much more than what it pays in Bolsa Família.
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence Contrasts interest payments with Bolsa Família, criticizing the prioritization of rentiers.
Romeu Zema
48:36
About: resume anti-corruption agenda
First you have to have zero tolerance.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Declares 'primeiro você tem de ter uma tolerância zero' explicitly.
Romeu Zema
49:08
About: disclose government expenses and acts publicly and transparently
The only expenditure, in my opinion, that has to be confidential is that related to the country's security.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Says that only security expenditures should be confidential.
Romeu Zema
50:25
About: separate public and private interests and oversee conflicts of interest
So, I think we need to separate the public from the private.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Advocates separating the public from the private and overseeing those who hold positions.
Romeu Zema
51:02
About: implement measures to prevent corruption in public administration
So I think we need to start to moralize.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence States that the fight requires 'bons exemplos' and 'leis rígidas'.
Romeu Zema
52:15
About: implement measures to prevent corruption in public administration
Fachin is there at the STF wanting to introduce a code of ethics and it seems that no one wants a code of ethics.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Mentions support for a code of ethics for members of the STF and authorities.
Romeu Zema
53:18
About: increase rigor in combating crime and incarcerating criminals
And regarding crime, it's somewhat along the same lines.
Why it was classified this way · 82% confidence Associates fighting crime with the need for greater toughness in enforcement.
Romeu Zema
54:07
About: increase rigor in combating crime and incarcerating criminals
When you act that way, it seems you start to make the message clear.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Justifies lethal police action as a way to send a message to criminals.
Romeu Zema
55:10
About: toughen criminal law
So, we need to make the laws stricter here.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Explicitly says 'precisamos tornar as leis mais rígidas'.
Romeu Zema
55:15
About: use police force to arrest or neutralize criminals
A criminal does not receive police with dialogue or a bouquet of flowers; he receives police with bullets.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence States that police should retaliate with 'bala', not dialogue.
Romeu Zema
55:31
About: increase rigor in combating crime and incarcerating criminals
And not with an electronic ankle bracelet in the street — a criminal who poses some degree of risk to society, as has often been the case in Brazil.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Advocates prison instead of an ankle monitor for high-risk criminals.
Romeu Zema
57:50
About: guarantee financing for Social Security
There is also a cost to the social security system, how many end up disabled.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports the cost to Social Security from disability without proposing a policy.
Romeu Zema
57:57
About: reduce armed violence
He took a shot in the spine, had a limb amputated because of that rivalry, that war.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Describes injuries caused by rivalry without proposing concrete action.
Romeu Zema
58:05
About: reduce armed violence
So, the cost to Brazil is enormous.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence States that the cost of violence for Brazil is enormous, without a proposal.
Romeu Zema
58:08
About: reduce armed violence
And you generally lose young men who are in their productive years.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports the loss of young people of productive age due to violence.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
58:14
About: reduce street crime
Indeed, crime is one of the most urgent problems in Brazil.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Declares criminality an urgent problem without proposing a specific measure.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
58:23
About: investigate agreements between government officials and criminal organizations
Who knows if they're not running the country from behind the scenes.
Why it was classified this way · 55% confidence Suggests criminals' power behind the scenes without proposing explicit action.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
58:26
About: investigate and hold politicians accountable for corruption
Because I said the other day, what Vorcaro did with a few billion showed that it's not that expensive to buy a country.
Why it was classified this way · 60% confidence Cites the case as evidence of the country being bought, without recommending a legal measure.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
59:26
About: improve municipal education indicators
Regarding education, Zema, why do you think Brazil doesn't make progress in education?
Why it was classified this way · 60% confidence Asks why Brazil doesn't progress in education, without proposing action.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
59:30
About: improve municipal education indicators
If you want a country to develop, to be more productive, that generally happens because people receive education, have good ideas, and start businesses in that country.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Links education to development without presenting a concrete policy.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
59:42
About: ensure legal certainty and protection of private property
If the environment is friendly to that, if there is private property, if they are clear that the results will be theirs, if there is more legal certainty — but it all starts with education.
Why it was classified this way · 65% confidence Lists legal security and property rights as conditions for entrepreneurship.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
60:22
About: improve municipal education indicators
So that's the level of education in Brazil today.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Summarizes the education level as low with a practical example.
Romeu Zema
60:32
About: ensure quality public education
But I, who have been leading the Minas government for seven years, we have made progress in education.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Claims advances in education during their government (own action).
Romeu Zema
60:40
About: ensure quality public education
As I mentioned here, we renovated more than 2,500 school buildings, major renovations.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence Mentions the renovation of more than 2,500 school buildings as a government action.
Romeu Zema
60:50
About: improve state school infrastructure
We have places in Brazil, in Minas — I think that no longer exists — where people have classes in totally improvised places.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Describes classes in improvised locations without proposing new policy.
Romeu Zema
61:07
About: improve state school infrastructure
First, I think you need to have all that infrastructure.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Says 'você precisa ter' infrastructure, advocating concrete action.
Romeu Zema
61:11
About: ensure quality public education
We installed Wi‑Fi everywhere, CCTV and TVs for security purposes, and a school meal that I insist on eating when I go to the countryside, which isn't much different from my home.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Lists measures implemented (Wi‑Fi, school meals) as government actions.
Romeu Zema
61:23
About: increase funding for school meals
To give you an idea, the PT, in 2018, invested 20 million in school meals.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Compares investments and demands increased funding for school meals.
Romeu Zema
61:55
About: increase discipline and values education in public schools
What we need, and you who come from the armed forces, from a military background, know very well.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Declares 'o que nós precisamos' is discipline and learning principles.
Romeu Zema
62:13
About: maintain and expand social benefits conditioned on school attendance
In Brazil, what we have today — I talk a lot with some teachers — are students who sometimes come from poorer families who even receive Bolsa Família, and the teacher says, 'they don't come'; when the mother is warned that she might stop receiving Bolsa Família she starts to worry a little.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports that warnings about attendance affect Bolsa Família, without proposing a law.
Romeu Zema
62:36
About: maintain and expand social benefits conditioned on school attendance
So, in my opinion, every father and mother should be responsible — whether or not they receive Bolsa Família — for their children's attendance.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Argues for holding parents responsible for their children's attendance to receive benefits.
Romeu Zema
62:46
About: maintain and expand social benefits conditioned on school attendance
Just as you need to be up to date with your tax payments, you also need to be up to date with your child's school attendance.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Compares school attendance to civic obligations, supporting conditioning.
Romeu Zema
62:56
About: maintain and expand social benefits conditioned on school attendance
I think that in a country where people still don't have that sense of the importance of attending school, we need to toughen the rule a bit.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Supports tightening school attendance rules explicitly.
Romeu Zema
63:07
About: maintain and expand social benefits conditioned on school attendance
Say, your child needs to attend at least 80% of classes; otherwise you are not up to date with your obligations as a citizen, like voting, like performing military service, etc.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Proposes 80% attendance and administrative/civic sanctions otherwise.
Romeu Zema
63:20
About: maintain and expand social benefits conditioned on school attendance
So I'm kind of hard-line, because otherwise you don't change things.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence States a hardline stance to change parents' behavior.
Romeu Zema
63:42
About: reform the role of unions in education
And another point, we need to change the structure, the way many unions operate in education.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Advocates changing how unions operate in the educational area.
Romeu Zema
63:52
About: implement civic-military schools in public schools
Last year in Minas we wanted — I'll make this very clear — to hold a public hearing to implement civic-military schools throughout the state.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence States intention to hold public hearings for civic-military implementation.
Romeu Zema
64:29
About: implement civic-military schools in public schools
We are going to convert, like, 5, 10% of the schools into civic-military.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Declares a plan to convert 5–10% of schools into civic-military schools.
Romeu Zema
64:43
About: implement civic-military schools in public schools
The teachers' union filed a lawsuit to prevent there from being a public hearing.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Criticizes a union action that prevented the hearing, advocating implementation.
Romeu Zema
64:51
About: implement civic-military schools in public schools
And they got, at the State Court of Auditors, which has nothing to do with education, a decision not to allow the hearing.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Reports a TCE decision that blocked the hearing and criticizes the obstruction.
Romeu Zema
65:02
About: implement civic-military schools in public schools
But thank God, this week we reversed that situation in the ordinary courts.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Reports that the situation was reversed, supporting continuation of the project.
Romeu Zema
65:10
About: implement civic-military schools in public schools
I know that many fathers, many mothers, students and even teachers... want the school to be civic-military.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Says parents and teachers want civic-military schools.
Romeu Zema
65:19
About: implement civic-military schools in public schools
There will be a military person inside that school accompanying them; it will provide discipline, notions of morality, of civics, which we need in Brazil.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Attributes discipline, morals, and civics as benefits of civic-military schools.
Romeu Zema
66:00
About: promote mindset change in the education system
So the educational system needs a change of mentality.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Declares the system needs a change in mentality.
Romeu Zema
66:43
About: combat clientelism and benefit-dependency practices
And only in favor of that paternalistic State and not of those who need to qualify themselves and have moral principles.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Criticizes a paternalistic state and advocates accountability and autonomy.
Romeu Zema
67:01
About: promote a work culture and value qualification
People need a different mental model — that working is worthwhile.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Supports a mindset where working and getting qualified is worthwhile.
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Desconhecido
67:23
About: implement civic-military schools in public schools
No, I found it interesting, I thought it a good alternative, perhaps a good alternative to some, because... I studied at a military school, Bruno studied there too.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Says he is a good alternative and that he studied at a military school.
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Desconhecido
67:38
About: increase military presence in civic-military schools
Now a single person inside the school won't make that much difference, I think.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Says one person alone will not make a difference, advocating for more personnel.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
69:06
About: promote ideological plurality in public universities
So everything depends on the frame of reference and in fact there is no space for the right at the public university.
Why it was classified this way · 60% confidence Reports a lack of space for the right on campus, stating it as a fact.
Romeu Zema
70:37
About: support candidacies of managers without political careers
Well, I'm talking to Bruno, who I think understands business — which you follow — and institutions.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Advocates managerial leadership and new ideas instead of career politicians.
Romeu Zema
73:48
About: incorporate topics debated in the electoral campaign
One thing I haven't mentioned, which I want to contribute a lot to during my pre-campaign and campaign, is the debate.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Promises to contribute to the debate and present ideas during the pre-campaign.
Romeu Zema
73:58
About: publish government spending and acts in full
Everything you spend, you have to show.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Asks why the president's credit card cannot be shown.
Romeu Zema
75:24
About: adopt long-term planning and discipline in public management
You need discipline, you need a long-term plan; nothing gets better overnight, right?
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Advocates discipline and long-term plans to improve public policies.
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