Interview1st round · August 20, 2026· Record

Entrevista com Fernando Haddad (PT), candidato ao Governo de SP

Interview with Fernando Haddad · 95 statements transcribed and classified · about national security, state-owned companies, monetary policy, public health / public safety. Click a statement to hear that moment in the video.

O candidato do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) ao Governo de São Paulo, Fernando Haddad, foi o segundo e último entrevistado do ciclo de entrevistas do Balanço Geral comandado pelo jornalista Eleandro Passaia. Haddad, de 63 anos, nasceu em São Paulo e é candidato ao governo pela segunda vez consecutiva, sendo a primeira nas eleições de 2022, quando também disputou o cargo com o atual governador Tarcísio de Freitas. Durante a entrevista, o candidato destacou as estratégias que irá abordar para melhorar a qualidade da segurança no estado, discutiu estratégias para combater o crime organizado e também sobre a renegociação de contratos de privatização.

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  1. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: conduct integrated operations between the Federal Police and the Federal Revenue Service to combat money laundering

    "Candidate, recent operations integrated between the Federal Police and the Federal Revenue Service have caught billion-dollar money laundering schemes of criminal factions in the country's financial heart, which is Faria Lima."
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  2. Desconhecido

    For

    About: restrict the financial and logistical flow of organized crime through border control and financial intelligence

    "How do you translate this fight so that the average voter understands that choking the financial structure of these factions directly reduces violence, robberies, and insecurity in the neighborhoods?"
    National Security
  3. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: conduct investigations by the police, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Police

    "I think everyone can understand that when there is cooperation between the Federal Police, the Federal Revenue Service, and the state's forces here, the fight against organized crime is much more effective."
  4. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: conduct investigations by the police, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Police

    "Cooperation will always overcome disarticulation and fragmentation."
  5. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: establish a state security coordination office with seats for federal forces

    "Our proposal is that public security be managed in an institutional office chaired by the state's governor, but with seats for the federal forces."
  6. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: restrict the financial and logistical flow of organized crime through border control and financial intelligence

    "Because without the help of the Federal Police and the Federal Revenue Service... you will not be able to precisely asphyxiate organized crime."
  7. Fernando Haddad

    Neutral

    About: reduce lethality in police actions

    "Because when you... Police lethality is very high in São Paulo, it almost doubled under the current government."
  8. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: combat drug trafficking and crime

    "Because with the money you recruit new people."
  9. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: restrict the financial and logistical flow of organized crime through border control and financial intelligence

    "You need to end that financial flow that goes from the top down, recruiting young people, taking them out of school and leading them into crime."
  10. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: restrict the financial and logistical flow of organized crime through border control and financial intelligence

    "And for that you need to fight the higher levels."
  11. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: conduct investigations by the police, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Police

    "I repeat, without cooperation with the federal government, as it is today, we will not succeed against organized crime."
  12. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: Establish national public security coordination to combat organized crime

    "That is why my proposal starts with an integration of the national forces against crime."
  13. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: attract private and foreign investment to the state of São Paulo

    "Since you mentioned money, Brazil currently records positive economic indicators, with low unemployment rates and inflation under control."
    Monetary Policy
  14. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: attract private and foreign investment to the state of São Paulo

    "And I ask in what way your experience at the head of the Ministry of Finance can be converted into projects for the growth of the state of São Paulo?"
    Monetary Policy
  15. Fernando Haddad

    Neutral

    About: promote robust economic growth

    "Brazil has been growing in recent four years by around 2.7%, 2.8% per year."
  16. Fernando Haddad

    Neutral

    About: expand use of São Paulo's economic potential

    "In 2025 and 2026, the estimated growth is 0.5%."
  17. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: review state tax incentives granted to companies

    "You are giving tax benefits to companies that no longer need the tax benefit."
  18. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: end the fiscal war between states

    "I approved, in the federal government, the largest tax reform in Brazil's history, which comes into force on January 1st."
  19. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: end the fiscal war between states

    "This tax reform ends the tax war."
  20. Fernando Haddad

    Neutral

    About: end the fiscal war between states

    "And the tax war was what most harmed the state of São Paulo, which lost jobs to other states."
    Fiscal ReformFernando's profile
  21. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: implement public policies to encourage industry, reduce costs, and retain talent

    "We will, with tax reform, bring back to several regions of the State, several metropolitan regions: Sorocaba, Campinas, Vale do Paraíba, São José dos Campos, ABC."
  22. Fernando Haddad

    Neutral

    About: improve basic conditions and infrastructure of public education

    "If you look at the data for elementary education, you will see that the mayors did a good job."
    EducationFernando's profile
  23. Fernando Haddad

    Against

    About: improve basic conditions and infrastructure of public education

    "Those who did not do a good job were some governors in the country."
  24. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: value and train teachers with better pay and training

    "One of the problems is that teachers are not hired through public competitive exams."
  25. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: invest in infrastructure, teacher support, and exchange programs for public schools and ETECs/FATECs

    "Like the Céus here in São Paulo, which I implemented during Marta's administration and which spread throughout the city, we have to spread schools with good infrastructure throughout the interior of the State and continue building in the capital."
  26. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: improve basic education indicators in the State of São Paulo (IDEB)

    "I want to promise that we will, in four years... return the State to the top positions in the country, among the top three positions in the country."
  27. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: review privatization and concession contracts made by the state government

    "The current São Paulo government adopted a strong privatization agenda, completing the privatization of Sabesp and advancing concessions of metro lines, CPTM, and highways."
    State-owned companies
  28. Fernando Haddad

    Against

    About: review privatization and concession contracts made by the state government

    "Look, what is happening in São Paulo are rushed privatizations, very hurried to please the financial market."
  29. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: review privatization and concession contracts made by the state government

    "Sabesp, which was privatized, raised the water bill and worsened the service."
  30. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: use state companies to universalize sewage treatment instead of selling public assets

    "To universalize sewage treatment, you could use the state company itself for that."
  31. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: renegotiate concession and privatization contracts to reduce excessive gains by business owners

    "Sabesp's projected profit in two years is to triple at the expense of your personal bills."
  32. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: cancel concession contracts for poor service when necessary

    "If I have to cancel a contract due to poor service, I will do it."
  33. Fernando Haddad

    Against

    About: criticize and expose deficiencies of the current state government

    "Look, there are many governors with approval ratings much higher than Tarcísio."
  34. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: point out flaws in state management and offer political alternatives

    "One of the reasons that made me come to São Paulo... was to speak with those at home about the quality of education that fell to tenth place, the SUS waiting list that increased, the sense of insecurity that grew."
  35. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: oppose Bolsonaro

    "I consider Flávio Bolsonaro an institutional risk for the country, both from an economic point of view and from an ethical and social point of view."
  36. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: renegotiate state debt with the Union

    "And we quadrupled financing for works in São Paulo, renegotiated São Paulo's debt, reducing interest payments by 12 billion per year."
  37. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: implement a rapid, integrated police reporting system to expedite investigations

    "First of all, we will institute the police report via WhatsApp."
  38. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: implement a rapid, integrated police reporting system to expedite investigations

    "You will file a police report via WhatsApp with artificial intelligence assisting you."
  39. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: prohibit turning off body cameras during confrontations and stops

    "I heard the governor say here that in Paris it is the police officer who decides when to turn his body camera on or off."
  40. Fernando Haddad

    For

    About: end black boxes and increase transparency in public administration

    "So, to qualify police service, we need more transparency."

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