SABATINA: PABLO MARÇAL - O PRÓXIMO PRESIDENTE DO BRASIL?

About: appeal court decisions to maintain candidacy registration

"Thanks to the Electoral Justice, which cleared the candidacy, and I hope to win the next judicial battles so I can serve the people."

About: guarantee freedom of political action against undue institutional interference

"There is a lot of power in this country that... won't let someone free, someone prosperous, someone open-minded, disruptive, fight for the people."

About: combat corruption and the buying of parliamentary support

"When you see that there are certain politicians who do business with the innocent blood of people to be able to be in places, or who consecrate the entire nation to principalities and protests, so they can continue sucking the energy of these people, you'll understand what we're suffering here."

About: ensure candidates can run even when improper affiliations are being investigated

"The politicians, most of the politicians made a conspiracy so that this wouldn't happen."

About: guarantee freedom of political action against undue institutional interference

"Then these guys want to make deals and keep you as a puppet."

About: maintain pre-candidacy until final decision

"Go ahead, we're going to fight to the end for the people."

About: appoint ministers to form the government

"Man, Caiado is a good guy to be a minister."

About: appoint ministers to form the government

"Augusto Cury, if he doesn't win the election, he could be an excellent Minister of Education."

About: promote political renewal and alternation of leadership

"How is Brazil a country of the future discussing with a candidate who ran in 1989, man?"

About: field strategic candidates to split opponents' support

"If some key people had been put in, we could have eased the pressure from Lula."

About: win the presidential election without relying on support from Congress

"At the end of the video, which you don't watch, you have reading-comprehension problems; you need to know you have to win a major office."

About: win the presidential election without relying on support from Congress

"Win a major office, Missão, this year—it's on the video, man."

About: guarantee freedom of party disaffiliation

"There's party pressure to prevent those who want to leave from leaving."

About: Switch parties to enable a candidacy

"When I realized in March that that wasn't going to happen, I had already made moves and, thank God, everything worked out."

About: veto candidacies within parties

"União, due to pressure to control the Senate and do the things they want there, wouldn't allow that candidacy to happen."

About: Seek victory in the first round

"Lula is carrying out a somewhat risky operation."

About: Reduce the number of candidacies to avoid vote splitting

"For example, having several left- or right-wing candidates doesn't split the vote."

About: adopt racial quotas at public universities

"To call someone by the color of another race, you're already crazy in life."

About: adopt socioeconomic quotas for public universities

"Now, to put quotas at university for those who are poor, I'm in favor, because I came from poverty, so I think you should define something... But wanting to justify that we're in debt, I think we should compensate the 5 million slaves who came from Africa."

About: adopt socioeconomic quotas for public universities

"Now, for university, if that's what you're talking about, for me the quota has to be for the poor, come on."

About: adopt socioeconomic quotas for public universities

"For me quotas have to be quotas for the poor, not quotas of empty talk."

About: Allow carrying and possession of firearms for the population

"Man, every country that was disarmed ended up like Venezuela."

About: Allow carrying and possession of firearms for the population

"But I would like qualified people to be allowed to carry arms."

About: implement the death penalty for sexual offenders

"Death penalty for rapists, for terrorists, for people who really live off crime."

About: Redraft the Penal Code

"For a person who does it repeatedly, we will propose this reform of the Penal Code."

About: lower the age of criminal responsibility for perpetrators of crimes against life

"Also, the age of criminal responsibility must be lowered for those who live in crime—crimes against life."

About: classify home invasion to commit a crime as terrorism in legislation

"Yeah, another thing we'll propose is—today it's already inviolable, right, even a person's correspondence—but if a guy wants to enter someone's home to commit a crime, that's terrorism."

About: Redraft the Penal Code

"We will fight to change that in our legislation."

About: reform the Penal Code to clarify home invasion and the classification of terrorism

"And this Penal Code is the following: the home is inviolable, but in such a way that you go from ordinary citizen to terrorist in two minutes."

About: increase severity of punishment for robberies on public transport

"If it's inside public transport, buses, any environment where a person should be at peace, then you'll see if the criminals will act like that."

About: Increase penalties for members of criminal factions

"Man, we have to really hammer these guys so they'll respect us."

About: decriminalize drugs

"Man, there's a fight... I don't think it's possible to decriminalize in Brazil."

About: decriminalize drugs

"A Brazil that can't even deal with the 'tigrinho' nor with gambling—are you going to decriminalize with the mindset Brazilians have today?"

About: integrate public policies to address open scenes of drug use

"It's something like 80% public health and 20% criminal."

About: expand partnerships with religious institutions for addiction recovery programs

"So, the church, for example, does an exceptional job, bigger than the State, of rehabilitating people."

About: implement ecological, collective agrarian reform with rural technical assistance

"MST, man, in agrarian reform there's land for everyone."

About: disband the MST and reinstate possession of lands occupied irregularly

"Finish that off; in 30 days it'll be over."

About: repress invasions of private property and punish invaders who trade stolen goods

"If you take more than 90% of those scoundrels who keep invading private property, they take it to sell — it's become a business, you know?"

About: implement ecological, collective agrarian reform with rural technical assistance

"If Lula, who's been around for 23 years, really wanted to give land to the people, wouldn't he have already done it?"

About: privatize Banco do Brasil

"Man, privatization — for example, I saw one happen, right?"