Nogueira defends 'municipalism' in Congress and says that internet candidates 'drained' votes from regional representatives

Nogueira defends municipalism and says that internet candidates 'drained' regional votes Pre-candidate for federal deputy for São Paulo, the former mayor of Ribeirão Preto (SP), Duarte Nogueira (PSD), defended this Thursday (16) the need to decentralize the country and said that it is necessary to give more power to municipalities. "I will be a federal deputy, after being elected, a defender of municipalism, decentralization and the strengthening of city structures, which is the experience I had very strongly during the period I was in city hall." To g1, Nogueira said that, if elected, he will be a defender of municipalism, decentralization and the strengthening of city structures. "I was very convinced that we have to decentralize the country. The more strengthening we have in our cities, the more municipalized Brazilian programs are, the better the resources are applied and, proportionally, they are also better supervised." ?Click here to follow the g1 Ribeirão e Franca channel on WhatsApp According to Nogueira, the Ribeirão Preto region needs representatives who live the reality of the cities and have ties with them. "If it doesn't exist, we lose space, both in the federal budget and in the discussion of public policies, of the reforms that need to be made. So, regardless of who the next president of the Republic is, Congress will continue to have this relevance." Duarte Nogueira, pre-candidate for federal deputy for São Paulo, from Ribeirão Preto (SP) Murilo Corazza/g1 Nogueira said that in previous years, cities such as São Carlos, Araraquara and Franca already had representatives in the Federal Chamber, but, in recent years, they have lost space to "social media candidates". "In the past, we have had many representatives in the Federal Chamber, mainly from the region as a whole, in the city of São Carlos there was a federal one, Araraquara had a federal deputy, Franca had a federal deputy, Ribeirão Preto. Today, only Ribeirão has one. These other cities no longer have them because of the advent of this drainage of votes, which went to candidates from the region, which went to candidates on social media issues. I think we need to turn our eyes to the importance of valuing votes for candidates from the region to have this political strength in the Congress.” More transparency in parliamentary amendments A recently published study by the Transparência Brasil Organization showed that, in 2025, the Chamber of Deputies registered R$1.3 billion in committee amendments on behalf of party leaders, without identifying the parliamentarians who actually indicated the beneficiaries of the resources. Nogueira maintains that total transparency is necessary when it comes to public money and states that the practice needs to change. "Public money cannot be anonymous. You have to know the origin of the resource and who allocated it. This thing about rapporteur amendments, secret budgets, this is an excrescence. This has to be changed, there has to be total transparency, because there is a lot of corruption with the use of parliamentary amendments." Agribusiness in the crosshairs Agribusiness is also in the sights of the pre-candidate, who assessed the need for producers to invest in debt renegotiation. A recently published Serasa survey shows that default rates in the sector in 2025 reached 8.2%. The data shows that producers remain pressured by high costs, volatile prices and tighter credit. "What we need to do is invest now in debt renegotiation, yesterday [Wednesday] a provisional measure number 1376 was published, creating criteria for family farming, which will have up to ten years to be able to amortize, with a two-year grace period, its accumulated debts, for those who had more than two harvests in debt, for PRONAMP, which is the medium producer, and corporate agriculture with fewer facilities, but is also having the opportunity to renegotiate its debts. And at a moment important, because we are now starting the harvest year". Presidential election When talking about the presidential election, Nogueira said that he will support the party's pre-candidate, Ronaldo Caiado (PSD) and also stated that he hopes he will be in the second round. "I'm not going to anticipate the second round choice, because I hope, in the second round, to have Caiado, so that he can be our candidate and be elected president. I think he will be a president who meets what the country needs, reforms, fighting crime and doing tasks, not in the short term, but preparing the country for the next generations. And this is done with a lot of determination and with examples. I think he is capable of that." See more news from the region on g1 Ribeirão Preto and Franca VIDEOS: Everything about Ribeirão Preto, Franca and the region