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Rio de Janeiro mayoral candidates Eduardo Paes (DEM) and Marcelo Crivella (Republicans), who are running for reelection, exaggerated figures, exchanged unfounded accusations and made equally fragile defenses in the debate promoted by TV Globo on Friday night (27). ).
Crivella defended his management with inaccurate data on the coronavirus, while Paes used exaggerated numbers to attack his opponent’s management.
These are the mistakes and successes of each candidate:
The homeless population, before the pandemic, even tripled, from 4,000 to 15,16,000 people.
Eduardo Paes (DEM)
False
According to the Public Defender of Rio de Janeiro, in October, the city reached 17,000 homeless people. However, in July 2019, eight months before the pandemic, the same body already estimated a population of 15,000.
I am not a defendant.
Marcelo Crivella (Republicans)
False
In September 2018, Crivella became accused of administrative irregularity in the case of a private meeting held with pastors and religious leaders at the City Palace, the seat of the City Council.
I am a clean slate.
Eduardo Paes (DEM)
True but
The former mayor has never suffered any sentence that fits him into the Clean Registry Law, which even requires a second instance sentence. However, in September, Paes was charged with corruption, money laundering and misrepresentation, accused of receiving undue advantages amounting to R $ 10.8 million.
I opened three popular restaurants, I didn’t close any.
Marcelo Crivella (Republicans)
True
Crivella opened three popular restaurants under his direction: in Campo Grande, in July 2017; Bangu, in August last year; and Bonsucesso, in February 2018. Two of them were the reopening of units that had been closed since 2016, during the Paes administration.
Rio has almost half the population of São Paulo and we had more or less the same number [de mortos por covid]; the fatality rate is double.
Eduardo Paes (DEM)
True
With 6.7 million inhabitants according to the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), the city of Rio de Janeiro has just over half of the 12.3 inhabitants of São Paulo. So far, according to data from the Ministry of Health, the capital of Rio de Janeiro has accumulated 13,226 deaths from covid; while São Paulo, in fact, had little more than 14,340 deaths.
In Rio, the death rate is 9.79%, with 194 deaths from covid per 100,000 inhabitants; against a fee 4.12% (just under half) and 115 deaths for every 100,000 inhabitants of the São Paulo capital.
In São Paulo 20 thousand people died, here 11 thousand. Taking 10% of Baixada, 10 thousand.
Marcelo Crivella (Republicans)
False
As previously verified, until this Friday, São Paulo had just over 14 thousand deaths from coronavirus while Rio de Janeiro registered just over 12 thousand. In addition, state departments collect COVID deaths based on the patient’s address. In other words, the inhabitants of Baixada Fluminense who die in hospitals in the capital have their deaths registered in their respective cities.
In your government, the tail of Sisreg [Sistema de Regulação] triplicate. Today, 360,000 people are waiting to be examined and operated.
Eduardo Paes (DEM)
True
The Sisreg, a system that regulates the waiting list for medical examinations, registers, this Friday, a waiting of 386,954 applications, almost three times that registered when Crivella took over the City Council. As Aos Fatos already verified this week, based on the Official Gazette of the Municipality, at the beginning of January 2017, the wait was 132,541 orders.
[Passagem de ônibus por] R $ 4.05 has no place in Brazil, the cheapest is here.
Marcelo Crivella (Republicans)
False
The ticket price for Rio de Janeiro is not the lowest, even among the capitals. Manaus is in the third consecutive year with a ticket of R $ 3.80; Vitória raised the rate to R $ 3.90; and Belém, for R $ 3.60.
* Felipe Oliveira and Pedro Ungheira collaborated
