Radical right-winger launches presidential bid, vows to 'kill whoever steals'

Businessman Renan Santos launched his presidential campaign for the Missão party on Saturday, adopting a radical right-wing discourse that included personal attacks on President Lula and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. Santos called both "vagabonds" and stated that rivals "have to go to the dustbin of history." He also declared, "we are going to kill whoever steals."

The Missão party, founded in 2025 by individuals linked to the MBL (Free Brazil Movement), held a symbolic event in São Paulo's East Zone for its first national congress. This event followed an earlier convention on July 20, which was moved up to secure federal police protection for Santos after he received threats from criminal factions in Ceará. Santos currently polls at 3% in the Datafolha survey.

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we are going to kill whoever steals.

The congress, marked by security protocols and a predominantly young audience wearing t-shirts with the slogan "arrested, killed," aimed to position the party as a right-wing alternative to Brazil's political polarization. The platform combines proposals for strict fiscal adjustment with a "shock of law and order" against organized crime. The event also featured the presentation of Aroldo Medina, a retired lieutenant colonel, as the vice-presidential candidate, along with nominations for state governorships and a panel on favela de-densification.

The party unveiled its "Yellow Book," a 500-plus-page government program for 2026. It includes proposals for a "bitter medicine" fiscal adjustment, such as a constitutional amendment to de-index pension and welfare benefits from the minimum wage and to decouple health and education budgets, estimating R$1.1 trillion in savings by 2031. In public security, the program suggests adopting the "Law of the Enemy," creating super-prisons for criminal leaders, and confiscating assets from factions like the PCC and Comando Vermelho. It also proposes merging financially unviable municipalities to reduce the national total.

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