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HADDAD RESPONDE: O FUTURO DA SABESP
41 classified statements · 1 politicians · June 23, 2026 · 10 min
Statements by Fernando Haddad. 41 excerpts classified by topic and stance. Topics: Privatizations and Economic Policy, Concession Policy, Public Management, Transparency & Investigation.
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Excerpts classified by topic and stance. This is not the full transcript of the video.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
0:01
About: privatize state-owned companies
And, on the contrary, we still saw the government pursuing a privatization agenda.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Reports that the government maintained a privatization agenda, without expressing explicit support.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
0:05
About: concede public services to the private sector
That was the case with the prisons, for example — a case that was even kind of strange, leaving the government's agenda, coming from the government's agenda, privatizations.
Why it was classified this way · 60% confidence mentions a past proposal to privatize prisons, describing it as 'meio estranho'.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
0:20
About: concede public services to the private sector
I haven't heard of prison privatization.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence denies being aware of prison privatization — factual assertion.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
0:24
About: concede public services to the private sector
There were proposals earlier to privatize prisons.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence states that proposals arose in the past — factual report.
- Neutral
Desconhecido
0:29
About: concede public services to the private sector
It didn't proceed, but it came from the government itself.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence attributes the origin of the proposal to the government itself — account of responsibility.
Fernando Haddad
0:37
About: privatize state-owned companies
First of all I... There are two ways to privatize, let's say.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence explains two forms of privatization — descriptive statement.
Fernando Haddad
0:48
About: privatize state-owned companies
So, when you sell Eletrobras, that is the sale of assets, you're selling assets.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence gives the example that selling Eletrobras is selling off patrimony — factual explanation.
Fernando Haddad
0:59
About: grant infrastructure concessions
But there are concessions that I, personally, am against.
Why it was classified this way · 92% confidence explicitly declares 'sou contra' regarding certain concessions.
Fernando Haddad
1:04
About: grant infrastructure concessions
There are concessions that I don't see any reason for.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence reaffirms that they see no reason for certain concessions.
Fernando Haddad
1:06
About: privatize state-owned companies
For example, here in São Paulo, the sale of Sabesp.
Why it was classified this way · 72% confidence cites the sale of Sabesp as an example — informative statement.
Fernando Haddad
1:34
About: ensure competitive, transparent public procurements
They made so many rules throughout the bidding process that it ended up with one bidder, Equatorial, which wasn't even in the sector.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence alleges clauses steered the bidding, calling for competitive procedures.
Fernando Haddad
1:49
About: ensure competitive, transparent public procurements
The other two withdrew because of the clauses they kept adding to the tender notice.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence says others withdrew because of clauses in the tender notice — criticism of the process.
Fernando Haddad
1:55
About: ensure competitive, transparent public procurements
The two realized that the governor was steering the bidding process.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence accuses the governor of steering the tender — calls for transparency.
Fernando Haddad
2:13
About: ensure competitive, transparent public procurements
Because it realized that the state government was steering the tender.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence says a competitor perceived steering — complains of lack of transparency.
Fernando Haddad
2:32
About: maintain Petrobras as a state-owned company
He sold 15% of Sabesp to... to Equatorial, at a price convenient to Equatorial because it was the only bidder, it made the offer alone, and then he sold the other 17%.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence reports a sale of a stake under conditions favorable to the buyer, criticizing it.
Fernando Haddad
2:47
About: maintain Petrobras as a state-owned company
He sold on the stock exchange, with the share at eighty-something?
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence questions the price and sale mechanism — criticism of the privatization process.
Fernando Haddad
2:52
About: maintain Petrobras as a state-owned company
He called a group of investors and chose to whom he sold the other 17% at the price that Equatorial paid for the 15% in the bidding in which only it participated.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence denounces the selection of buyers by convenient criteria — opposes the method of sale.
- For
Desconhecido
3:28
About: challenge irregular public tenders at the Court of Accounts
And shouldn't the State Court of Auditors have impugned this tender?
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence asks whether the TCE should not have challenged the irregular bidding.
Fernando Haddad
3:32
About: investigate irregularities in public procurement by the MPF
Look, I don't know... What did the Public Prosecutor's Office think of that?
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence asks what position the Public Prosecutor's Office took on the case.
Fernando Haddad
3:36
About: investigate bidding irregularities by the Court of Accounts
What did the Court of Auditors think of that?
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence asks what the Court of Auditors' understanding was regarding the bidding.
Fernando Haddad
3:46
About: privatize state-owned companies
And if I were, for any reason, forced to sell, by law or whatever, it would never be in the way it was sold.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence says that if forced to sell, they would not do it that way.
Fernando Haddad
4:05
About: reduce water tariffs
The increase in the water bill that he said he would reduce was caused by Sabesp.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence states that the water bill went up instead of down — factual report.
Fernando Haddad
4:15
About: form municipal consortia for sanitation concessions
And another thing, now he's pressuring the interior mayors to join a program called Universaliza.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence states that mayors are being pressured to enter the 'Universaliza' program.
Fernando Haddad
4:28
About: form municipal consortia for sanitation concessions
In the other half of the state not served by Sabesp, he's going to form a consortium there to sell.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence reports a plan to create consortia for areas not served by Sabesp.
Fernando Haddad
4:34
About: concentrate water services in a single concessionaire
So you're going to have the entire state of São Paulo in the hands of one water utility company?
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence questions the risk of a state monopoly, calling the idea 'loucura'.
Fernando Haddad
4:43
About: concentrate water services in a single concessionaire
But even from the point of view, first you don't have economies of scale, because you have municipalities with 20,000 inhabitants.
Why it was classified this way · 82% confidence argues that small municipalities would not gain economies of scale.
Fernando Haddad
5:03
About: form municipal consortia for sanitation concessions
And he will be imposing on, pressuring the mayors.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence says mayors will be coerced to join — opposes that imposition.
Fernando Haddad
5:07
About: guarantee municipalities' autonomy in sanitation management
If I'm elected, I'll put an end to that.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence promises 'acabar com isso' if elected — an explicit commitment.
Fernando Haddad
5:20
About: release BNDES credit lines to states
To give you an idea, how much credit line did Bolsonaro release to São Paulo from BNDES?
Why it was classified this way · 60% confidence asks comparatively about the credit release from BNDES.
Fernando Haddad
5:48
About: renegotiate state debt with the Union
Because we reduced the state's debt service with the Union by 11 billion per year.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence claims action by 'nós' that reduced debt service — defense of the measure.
Fernando Haddad
6:13
About: join the fiscal recovery regime to renegotiate the state's debt
That is, he... wasted Massabesp just because of the delay in joining Propag, and nobody says anything.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence criticizes the delay in joining that caused financial loss, and advocates rapid adoption.
Fernando Haddad
6:21
About: investigate suspicious negotiations involving amendment submissions
That would at least warrant opening an investigation to be examined by the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence states the case would justify opening an inquiry by the Public Ministry.
Fernando Haddad
7:14
About: combat corruption in the state administration
Because of blind ideological adherence, people don't want to see what's happening with security, what's happening with education, what's happening with health, what's happening with privatizations, what's happening with finances, the holes where there is corruption, in the Finance Secretariat, in the Agriculture Secretariat.
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence mentions 'buracos onde tem corrupção' and calls for confronting it.
Fernando Haddad
7:44
About: base public policies on data and evidence
Let's look at the data, let's look at what's happening, let's give our state a direction.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence advocates looking at the data and giving the State direction.
Fernando Haddad
8:15
About: maintain monetary policy with high interest rates
I am critical, I was critical of Roberto Câmara's administration.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence states having been critical of the management and the monetary policy applied.
Fernando Haddad
8:28
About: maintain Central Bank autonomy
But the Central Bank is an autonomous entity; it is not part of the government.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence explains that the Central Bank is autonomous and accountable to society.
Fernando Haddad
9:03
About: control inflation
Look, inflation had been falling until the Iran war.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence attributes inflationary trends to an external shock (war), explaining the causes.
Fernando Haddad
9:10
About: adopt an independent foreign policy toward China and the United States
It was Bolsonaro's allies who provoked that war.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence attributes responsibility to allies for the external shock and criticizes the alignment.
Fernando Haddad
9:35
About: adopt an independent foreign policy toward China and the United States
We are paying the price for the irresponsibility of a president who has the support of Bolsonarism, even when he acts against Brazil.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence calls the actions of those who supported harmful alignments 'irresponsabilidade'.
Fernando Haddad
9:44
About: respect STF decisions and hold conspirators accountable
And then Eduardo Bolsonaro, who campaigned against Brazil at the White House, who campaigned against one of the powers of the Republic at the White House, was convicted by the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) and Tarcísio goes there and criticizes the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) because it convicted, according to the law, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who was conspiring against Brazil.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence supports condemnation by the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) and criticizes those who publicly contest it.
Fernando Haddad
10:11
About: apply severe penalties to those who conspire against national sovereignty
In a serious democracy, a guy who betrays his country could even be subject to martial law.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence states that betraying the country is serious and should be severely punished.
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