Interview1st round · August 27, 2026· CNN

ENTREVISTA COM CLEITINHO AZEVEDO (REPUBLICANOS) AO GOVERNO DE MG | CNN ELEIÇÕES

Interview with Cleitinho Azevedo · 111 statements transcribed and classified · about public service, electoral program, gender equality, national security. Click a statement to hear that moment in the video.

A CNN Brasil dá início, neste mês de agosto, a uma série de entrevistas com candidatos aos governos estaduais dentro de sua cobertura para as eleições deste ano. Em Minas Gerais, as conversas serão transmitidas ao vivo, às 21h10, na TV e YouTube.

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  1. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: continue the effective policies of the state government

    "First, whatever is good in the government, we have to continue."
  2. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: refrain from attacking the current government during the campaign

    "I am not here to attack the current government."
  3. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: continue the effective policies of the state government

    "I think it's important what we see is good."
  4. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: prioritize investment in and strengthening of public health

    "Now, what I have always said, since I presented myself as a pre-candidate for governor, if I would run as a candidate for governor, besides talking about health, security and education, which are the basics and the obligation of a public administration, is to fight injustice."
  5. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: improve basic sanitation and sewage treatment

    "I see various injustices within Minas Gerais here, where a citizen pays a water bill although there is no effective sewage treatment, and still pays that fee."
  6. Cleitinho Azevedo

    Neutral

    About: implement a social tariff in sanitation services with multiple discount tiers

    "Today, a water bill for a Minas Gerais worker here is R$ 300, R$ 350, for someone who earns R$ 1,600."
    SanitationCleitinho's profile
  7. Cleitinho Azevedo

    Neutral

    About: review energy tariff increases

    "The electricity bill is the same."
    Energy MixCleitinho's profile
  8. Cleitinho Azevedo

    Neutral

    About: review the composition of fees and taxes on the electricity bill

    "An energy bill where you pay more in fees and taxes than for actual consumption."
  9. Cleitinho Azevedo

    Neutral

    About: review the composition of fees and taxes on the electricity bill

    "A bill that reaches almost R$ 350, R$ 400."
    Energy MixCleitinho's profile
  10. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: reduce state IPVA charges

    "We have here the IPVA, the most expensive 'liquidadeira' in Brazil, together with the very bad, horrible roads we have here in Minas Gerais."
  11. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: combat injustices in the state

    "So what I want to do right away is to fight injustice."
  12. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: reduce state IPVA charges

    "I want in a way... There's even a controversy about this IPVA issue."
  13. Cleitinho Azevedo

    Ambiguous

    About: reduce state IPVA charges

    "Saying that I will do away with the IPVA because I want to prevent vehicles from being impounded for nonpayment of IPVA."
    State FinancingCleitinho's profile
  14. Cleitinho Azevedo

    Neutral

    About: reduce state IPVA charges

    "And the controversy is that people say I don't have the authority for that, that it's federal."
    State FinancingCleitinho's profile
  15. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: reduce state IPVA charges

    "If I am the governor and the one who collects the IPVA is the government... Then I have the authority to provide several alternatives so that the citizen of Minas is no longer humiliated in Minas Gerais, and from January 1st he will no longer be humiliated."
  16. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: combat injustices in the state

    "So whatever I can do within the State, on the first day of my term, to combat the injustice that happens to the people of Minas, I will do it with great pleasure."
  17. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: begin soliciting votes from the regulatory start date

    "In fact, you who are from Minas Gerais, I very much want to count on your vote, Edilene, because I believe that no candidate you've interviewed so far has asked you for your vote."
  18. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector

    "So what I need to do there is surround myself with competent people by my side, because no one does anything alone."
  19. Cleitinho Azevedo

    Neutral

    About: continue the effective policies of the state government

    "The State's public apparatus already functions; it already has a Secretariat of Education, a Secretariat of Infrastructure, a Secretariat of Planning, a Secretariat of Finance."
    Public ServiceCleitinho's profile
  20. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector

    "It is up to me to put the right people in the right places; that is what I will do."
  21. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: implement transparency in state public administration

    "and continue the work that has been going on, which today is that of the current governor, and fix what needs to be fixed, improve, be transparent."
  22. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: implement transparency in state public administration

    "I think that, for me, the principle of public administration is called transparency."
  23. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector

    "I will put competent secretaries in the ministries, including Dilene."
  24. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: hold selection processes to appoint secretaries and public managers

    "I already said that; I even made it official saying that the first secretary I wanted to have in my government would be a career official, from education, a woman."
  25. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: dialogue and negotiate with teachers' unions

    "I want to discuss this with teachers, with education professionals."
  26. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: invite experienced managers to join the state secretariat

    "Medioli, who was mayor of Betim as well, and I invited him to be part of this cabinet."
  27. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: prioritize appointing competent managers in the public sector

    "And I'm sure the most important thing is these hands here, look. I'll show you here."
  28. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: avoid conflicts of interest between public positions and ties to private companies

    "I will not do anything there, negotiate anything that is not for the people."
  29. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: preserve accountability for corruption and transparency

    "So, regarding Euclides, to be clear, he is not just an ally of mine, no."
  30. Desconhecido

    For

    About: appoint secretaries only if there are no relevant pending legal proceedings

    "Now, to be clear, candidate, you have already mentioned some names you intend to count on"
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  31. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: govern for everyone

    "I went through the Assembly, I lived and worked within the Assembly, I made many friends of various ideologies there, from various parties, and that's how I will work; I will work for everyone."
  32. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: prioritize the people's interests in public administration

    "There is my line of thought, my way of doing politics; I respect theirs, but when it comes to speaking for the people, you can count on me 100%."
  33. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: support Flávio Bolsonaro's candidacy

    "I am already doing that, because I had already said that since last year, when he was considering running for president, saying that I would support him."
  34. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: support Flávio Bolsonaro's candidacy

    "Because of the issue of the right, because I work with him in the Senate — I've worked with him for almost four years — and also because of his father, who is Bolsonaro, to whom I am very grateful as well, because beyond God and the people, if it weren't for Bolsonaro embracing me in that 2022 campaign, taking up a fight by calling the party's national president to secure my spot too, I might not be here giving this interview to you."
  35. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: unite right-wing candidates in the second round against the left

    "So, like I said, the right has to be united."
  36. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: unite right-wing candidates in the second round against the left

    "And I will be united with the right so that we can strengthen each other even more."
  37. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: conduct an independent campaign

    "The platform I will build now will be a solo platform."
  38. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: support Flávio Bolsonaro's candidacy

    "And whatever opportunity I have to help Flávio, I'll be available."
  39. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: dialogue with the federal government

    "With the greatest respect, in a republican and democratic manner."
  40. Cleitinho Azevedo

    For

    About: renegotiate the State's debt with the federal government

    "If Lula wins the election, and I win the election, my first act as governor — and I will tell you the truth — I will not wait to be certified or sworn in."

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