Q&A session1st round · August 18, 2026· SBT

SABATINA SBT ELEIÇÕES 2026 | AUGUSTO CURY #EleiçõesSBT2026

Q&A session with Augusto Cury · 47 statements transcribed and classified · about family assistance, political reform, private sector and entrepreneurship, political polarization. Click a statement to hear that moment in the video.

O SBT e o SBT News preparam uma rodada especial de sabatinas com os principais nomes que disputam a Presidência da República. Em cada dia, a programação eleitoral terá espaço, primeiramente, no SBT News, às 18h30, com apresentação de Celso Freitas e Marina Demori. Logo em seguida, os candidatos estarão no SBT Brasil, às 19h45, com Cesar Filho. A cobertura oferece ao público a oportunidade de acompanhar as propostas, os posicionamentos e as visões dos candidatos sobre os principais assuntos do país

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47 statements
  1. Desconhecido

    For

    About: not adopt a traditional political career

    "Well, I'm outside of politics, I don't have the traditional experience of politics and I don't want to have it, because that traditional politics sank the country."
  2. Desconhecido

    For

    About: reduce political polarization and promote national unity

    "I have more experience than most of them in company management and more than the vast majority of them in assembling brilliant, notable minds to make a national pact to pacify this country whose radicalization has become schizophrenic, where people are much more concerned with sitting in the presidential chair."
    Political PolarizationView this statement
  3. Desconhecido

    For

    About: reduce political polarization and promote national unity

    "So, I think I can indeed contribute by inviting the best economists, the best public managers and private managers to make this national pact, not an ego pact."
    Political PolarizationView this statement
  4. Desconhecido

    For

    About: step away from managing one's companies during the presidential term

    "Without any doubt, I relinquish the management of the companies."
    Conflict of InterestView this statement
  5. Desconhecido

    For

    About: implement shelters and referral centers for women experiencing violence

    "A bitadura da beleza is the women's revolution, and I defend the protection of women."
  6. Desconhecido

    For

    About: reduce political polarization and promote national unity

    "I would convene all the powers to make a national pact."
    Political PolarizationView this statement
  7. Desconhecido

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    About: reduce political polarization and promote national unity

    "More than ever, I would be in a position to invite the various parties to this national pact, because I am not a threat to anyone."
    Political PolarizationView this statement
  8. Desconhecido

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    About: assemble a technical economic team to implement the government plan

    "For example, I would call brilliant economists to help solve this economic equation in a country that is in chaos."
    Monetary PolicyView this statement
  9. Desconhecido

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    About: end re-election

    "And you saw in my government platform, my program was for four years, because I am against re-election, which is one of the sources of corruption."
    Political ReformView this statement
  10. Desconhecido

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    About: reduce the size of the state through administrative reform and privatizations

    "We will have to carry out an administrative reform, we will have to have performance indexes for civil servants; there are about 50 thousand commissioned positions."
    Political ReformView this statement
  11. Desconhecido

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    About: reduce the size of the state through administrative reform and privatizations

    "We have to cut at least some 15 thousand commissioned posts, we will have to reduce the ministries, merge some ministries, perhaps 8 to 10 ministries, and we will create a new Ministry of Security, because security is vital to reduce criminality, femicide and a series of other crimes."
    Political ReformView this statement
  12. Desconhecido

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    About: conduct an audit of public expenditures to reduce spending

    "But I would call a number of notable professionals to carry out an audit, to truly cut to the bone what is necessary."
    Public BudgetView this statement
  13. Desconhecido

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    About: reduce the public deficit to near zero

    "The deficit, I cannot promise a zero deficit which would be irresponsible, because there will be a very important fiscal bomb next year."
    Public BudgetView this statement
  14. Desconhecido

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    About: ensure governability through allied legislative support

    "What we have to do is use the Centrão and not be used by the Centrão."
  15. Desconhecido

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    About: adopt a parliamentary system

    "Number one, I would change from presidentialism to semi-presidentialism."
    Political ReformView this statement
  16. Desconhecido

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    About: adopt a parliamentary system

    "There must be a president for strategic matters, the armed forces and foreign policy, and a prime minister, for example... Tarcísio de Freitas, to govern the country day-to-day."
    Political ReformView this statement
  17. Desconhecido

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    About: carry out reform of the STF

    "And furthermore, an important reform in the STF as well."
    JudiciaryView this statement
  18. Desconhecido

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    About: adjust the Bolsa Família program

    "So, Bolsa Família... it would have to be adjusted."
    Social PolicyView this statement
  19. Desconhecido

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    About: defend and maintain Bolsa Família

    "Those who sign a work contract, rest assured, will not lose the benefit, at least for a certain time."
    Family assistanceView this statement
  20. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: encourage formalization of employment through rewards to formally employed workers

    "Because people are not encouraged by the executive."
    Labor policy
  21. Desconhecido

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    About: defend and maintain Bolsa Família

    "an individual microenterprise (MEI) would also not lose the benefit, at least for a certain time."
    Family assistanceView this statement
  22. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: improve the effectiveness of Bolsa Família to promote social mobility

    "People have the right to be happy, they have the right to have their house, their own home, but do you think that with Bolsa Família it is possible to have a house, to have a car, to have vacations, to have quality of life?"
    Family assistance
  23. Desconhecido

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    About: encourage entrepreneurship

    "So we have to encourage them to develop that entrepreneurial vein and that desire to have a place in the sun in a highly suffocating society."
  24. Desconhecido

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    About: reform Bolsa Família to promote beneficiaries' economic autonomy

    "Bolsa Família... It is important, it loves poverty, but it doesn't love the poor, because it perpetuates the poor in poverty, because you continue with financial difficulty."
    Family assistanceView this statement
  25. Desconhecido

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    About: transition Bolsa Família beneficiaries to formal employment and entrepreneurship with initial financial support

    "So we want Bolsa Família to exist, but people who signed a work contract, opened a microenterprise, should be able to supplement their income."
    Family assistanceView this statement
  26. Augusto Cury

    Neutral

    About: reduce the budget of social programs such as Farmácia Popular and Minha Casa Minha Vida

    "So do you propose a reduction, for example, of social programs, the BPC and other existing programs?"
    Social programs and housingAugusto's profile
  27. Desconhecido

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    About: review Bolsa Família eligibility criteria

    "I propose, well, there are Bolsa Família cases that have to be reviewed to see whether people have the right or not."
    Family assistanceView this statement
  28. Desconhecido

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    About: transition Bolsa Família beneficiaries to formal employment and entrepreneurship with initial financial support

    "I want to embrace Bolsa Família, but turbocharge Bolsa Família, encouraging each of the people — they are 19.7 billion families — to sign their work contract and have a microenterprise in order to... to supplement their income."
    Family assistanceView this statement
  29. Augusto Cury

    Neutral

    About: increase the amount of the Bolsa Família benefit

    "Do you think the Bolsa Família benefit is very high today?"
    Family assistanceAugusto's profile
  30. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: increase the amount of the Bolsa Família benefit

    "But it's not possible, the government doesn't have money."
    Fiscal and Social PolicyView this statement
  31. Desconhecido

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    About: encourage entrepreneurship

    "So you have to encourage people to develop entrepreneurship."
  32. Desconhecido

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    About: encourage entrepreneurship

    "To set up, for example, a pastry shop, a beauty salon, and so on."
  33. Desconhecido

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    About: create banks and entrepreneurship schools in communities

    "In every favela, in every community, there should be an entrepreneurs' bank and an entrepreneurs' school, like in every public school, like in every church and every small, medium, or large town."
  34. Desconhecido

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    About: split BNDES into two separate banks

    "In the first instance, the bank for large companies and a bank for microenterprises."
  35. Desconhecido

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    About: grant financial relief to small businesses and compensate subnational tax losses

    "I would even use the money from Petrobras' dividends, which goes to the government's coffers to plug holes, because the government ends up being a spendthrift, so that we could, at least, finance one million microenterprises with Petrobras' dividends."
    Monetary PolicyView this statement
  36. Desconhecido

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    About: review and regulate pejotização and labor charges

    "What I am clear about is that we will revisit this."
  37. Desconhecido

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    About: expand access to capital and credit for companies

    "Therefore, what I'm clear about is that we need to finance 10 million microenterprises in the coming years to prepare Brazil."
  38. Desconhecido

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    About: implement policies to preserve jobs and protect small businesses

    "We need to have a distributed economy, because if we only have big companies, there will be mass unemployment, without a doubt."
    Monetary PolicyView this statement
  39. Desconhecido

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    About: adopt a 5x2 work schedule

    "Well, I am in favor of the 5x2 schedule and I know that some exceptions need to be reviewed."
  40. Desconhecido

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    About: adopt a 5x2 work schedule

    "Now... In some sectors that will be harmed, we have to revise the 5x2 schedule to a 6x1 schedule."

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