Interview1st round · April 6, 2026· UOL

Daniela Lima e Fábio Zanini entrevistam Caiado sobre pré-candidatura à Presidência, eleições e mais

Interview with Ronaldo Caiado · 91 statements transcribed and classified · about national security, social policy, rare earths and strategic mining, leadership & management. Click a statement to hear that moment in the video.

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  1. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: restore economic growth

    "This is the moment where I will be grilled by these stars of the press here, Dani, with that connection to the Center-West, and to tell you that I want, at such an opportune moment as this — let's make the most of this time — to be able to reach the society that expects a government that delivers results and does not just stay in shouting back and forth, and that we can give real hope to the people who so desire for Brazil to develop again."
  2. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: defend private enterprise and property rights as policy principles

    "Daniela, I can tell you that I participated in the first election in Brazil in '89, when there was that enormous prejudice against free enterprise, the market economy, and the right to property."
  3. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: defend the rights of rural producers

    "At that time I was the only defender of the rural producer."
  4. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: guarantee property rights over agricultural production

    "We managed to consolidate the right to property on productive lands."
  5. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: combat drug trafficking and crime

    "Brazil gave room to criminality, gave room to drug trafficking."
  6. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: combat corruption and illicit enrichment

    "Today, a party that accumulates frequent scandals, corruption, illicit enrichment."
  7. Ronaldo Caiado

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    About: improve the quality of education

    "of poor quality education, public safety, without giving citizens the minimum conditions to have the capacity to develop their own activities."
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  8. Ronaldo Caiado

    Neutral

    About: reduce violence

    "Brazilians today spend more than 155 billion per year just on security infrastructure to survive with their businesses."
    National SecurityRonaldo's profile
  9. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: simplify rules for entrepreneurs and investors

    "Brazil's cost today reaches 30% due to bureaucracy."
  10. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: promote the development and adoption of artificial intelligence

    "At the same time, the low level of technology offered to the market today, lack of support in the area of artificial intelligence, also in terms of fuels and in the generation of energy as a sustainable source that we have, leave much to be desired in a country that has lost its standing on the international stage."
  11. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: reduce political polarization and promote national unity

    "I believe I will be able to break it and truly make society understand that it is with practical results, with practical deliveries, that we will improve the country."
  12. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: improve the quality of education

    "That is, taking care of people, delivering better education, better public safety, development, the capacity to install industries, artificial intelligence, research, in short, digitization of public services, young people believing in state education."
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  13. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: restore the quality of debate and in-person voting in the National Congress

    "Voting on topics of relevance like tax reform, which the majority don't know what they voted on."
  14. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: reverse the Petrobras auction

    "I am now against that absurd auction that just happened at Petrobras."
  15. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: increase funding for SUS

    "I need to expand health, so they come and invest here."
  16. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: increase investments in public education in Paraná

    "I need to expand education, they come and help me."
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  17. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: establish a 10-year term for STF ministers

    "We have a project, which was even reported by Senator Anamélia, that proposed a 10-year term and also proposed that a pre-ordered list be presented for the president to choose from."
  18. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: require a minimum age of 60 for appointment to the STF

    "Only from the age of 60, when you then recognize the authority of being a person who has a legacy of legal, constitutional knowledge, renowned, and that this person would then receive this role as guardian of the Republic and of the Constitution, and that they would conclude their life within a role that is the highest there is."
  19. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: order the suspension of STF ministers under investigation

    "That is, if there is any doubt about the behavior, these people... should be suspended so that they can prove or disprove their innocence, right?"
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  20. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: order the suspension of STF ministers under investigation

    "But without being there in the capacity of a justice of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) opining on matters at that moment."
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  21. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: expel a party member for misconduct

    "Also... to cut to the bone, let's be more direct."
  22. Ronaldo Caiado

    Neutral

    About: open impeachment proceedings against the president

    "If the situation is taken to the Senate and impeachment is instituted there, authorized, then it is already independent of the STF."
  23. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: order the suspension of STF ministers under investigation

    "I am saying that it is up to the STF to make a larger gesture."
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  24. Ronaldo Caiado

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    About: expel a party member for misconduct

    "who, at one point, was forced to be told, look, I'm sorry, you can no longer remain within the party's ranks."
  25. Ronaldo Caiado

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    About: preserve credibility and independence of democratic institutions

    "Now, you can't be that simplistic person who thinks you will govern in a Democratic Rule of Law without having Congress and with only the STF and without the president, the executive."
  26. Ronaldo Caiado

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    About: preserve credibility and independence of democratic institutions

    "These people sometimes don't know or have no notion of what it is to govern the country, so they think they can close the STF and govern."
  27. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: adopt a center-right political agenda in public policies

    "I have been a man of the right my whole life."
  28. Ronaldo Caiado

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    About: support and accelerate agribusiness development

    "Look, you know that I... am proud to be, along with energy, along with artificial intelligence, along with fighting terrorists, along with returning the patrimony, that is, the Brazilian territory to the decent Brazilians, which is my first commitment as well, I will return Brazil to the decent Brazilians."
  29. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: increase harshness of prison conditions and punishment

    "Caiado, President of the Republic, I can tell you that prisons in Brazil will return to being penitentiaries."
  30. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: Establish national public security coordination to combat organized crime

    "So you have to have within the structure what we created in Goiás."
  31. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: implement Goiás's public security framework at the national level

    "So we have a structure that is capable, and whatever proportion you have in Goiás you need to have at the national level."
  32. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: strengthen integration between the prison system and police intelligence

    "You have, first, your first action is prisons."
  33. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: establish security agreements with neighboring countries for joint actions

    "Second, partnership actions with neighboring countries."
  34. Ronaldo Caiado

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    About: implement an innovation center and integrate artificial intelligence into public security

    "Third, access to top-end technology: long-range drones, satellites, AI-based identification of those involved in drug trafficking."
  35. Ronaldo Caiado

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    About: reduce homicides and combat organized crime

    "You don't need to chase after the person snatching a cell phone."
  36. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: reduce homicides and combat organized crime

    "You have to go after the heads who are fueling this whole process."
  37. Ronaldo Caiado

    Neutral

    About: reduce vehicle thefts

    "Goiás used to be the state with the most diesel car thefts in Brazil."
    National SecurityRonaldo's profile
  38. Ronaldo Caiado

    Neutral

    About: reduce vehicle thefts

    "Why today can you openly drive around with a diesel car?"
    National SecurityRonaldo's profile
  39. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: classify PCC and Comando Vermelho as internal terrorist organizations

    "First thing, that needs to go on the agenda on the first day."
  40. Ronaldo Caiado

    For

    About: employ armed forces to reoccupy territories controlled by criminal factions

    "I need the Air Force, I need the Navy."

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