Having just completed two years in office, the governor () fulfilled 21% of the 124 promises made during the 2022 campaign to the Government of and cataloged by Sheet.
Furthermore, according to the survey carried out by the report, 44% of commitments are ongoing; 19%, at a slow pace, and 15%, stopped.
At this cadence, the governor managed to fulfill a promise every 28 days in office, slightly faster than in 2023, when there were 30 days for each item. To complete the commitments within the four years of administration, the hypothetical ideal average would be to complete one every 12 days.
The objectives of the head of the state Executive classified by Sheet They were established during the 2022 electoral campaign, in the government plan and in public speeches —during press interviews, for example— in the election in which he took part in São Paulo.
In total, there are 26 promises completed in the first half of the term; 55 in progress; 24 at a slow pace and 19 promises stopped.
In a note, the Government of São Paulo, through the Communication Secretariat, stated that the management achieved significant results in all areas of activity and that it had completed 40% of all campaign commitments, with another 58% in progress and 2 % pending.
He also highlighted public policies such as the modernization of the public machine, the reduction in the number of state-owned companies, the computerization of services for the population and the strengthening of state regulatory agencies, in addition to the progress of works such as the northern section of the Rodoanel and Line 17-gold from .
A Sheet considered finalized the proposals that had progressed and were completely implemented, as in the case of the opening of 30 new Bom Prato — 37 units were opened during Tarcísio’s mandate. On the other hand, commitments in which there was no announcement or action taken, directly or indirectly, are at a standstill.
For a proposal to be considered ongoing, it must have been announced and implemented, that is, the project has come to fruition. One of the cases is the expansion of accessibility in schools: the government injected R$1.75 billion for schools to invest in the topic, being an effective step towards the implementation of public policy.
Finally, they are classified as slow commitments in which some public policy has been announced, but is not in the process of being implemented.
One example is the evaluation of public servants based on performance, which Tarcísio promised in his government plan. Palácio dos Bandeirantes took indirect actions on the issue, modernizing the management systems of state employees, but did not take practical steps to evaluate them according to their results.
The current status of the promises was obtained from information from the state government’s own bodies. For political scientist Marco Antonio Carvalho Teixeira, professor at FGV (Fundação Getulio Vargas), the percentage is classified as “reasonable”, since the number of promises fulfilled and in progress total more than 60%.
“Rarely does the mayor, for example, manage to deliver more than 30% of what he promised at the beginning of the government. So, this balance is quite favorable, considering that he has two more years and also that governors and mayors seeking re-election deliver a lot in the last two years of government”, he states.
The areas of economy (6) and digital government (5) are those with the most promises completed so far. None of the objectives of the Culture, Sports, Environment and Transport portfolios and actions related to the city center of São Paulo were finalized.
Despite this, the governor’s big goals, such as the privatization of (basic sanitation company) and Emae (Metropolitan Water and Energy Company) were completed last year.
The commitment on reviewing the policy on body cameras used by military police officers went through twists and turns and went from ongoing in 2023 to stopped in 2024.
While he was still a candidate, in a nod to the former president’s allies () and contradicting public security experts, Tarcísio stated that he would remove the cameras installed on the PM’s uniforms if he were elected. Last year, after images circulated of an agent throwing a man off a bridge during an approach, the governor backed down.
“I admit, I was wrong. I was wrong, and there’s no problem with me coming here and telling you that I was wrong, that I was wrong, that I had a mistaken view of the importance of cameras [corporais]”, said the governor in December.
On the same occasion, the president stated that cameras are important to protect police officers. “The discourse of legal security that we need to give to public security professionals to firmly combat crime cannot be confused with safe conduct to do anything, to break the rules.”
In March 2024, Tarcísio had said that he “didn’t care” about allegations of abuse committed during the , on the coast of .
“Honestly, we are very calm with what is being done. And then people can go to the UN, they can go to the Justice League, whatever the hell, I don’t care,” said the governor at the time.
Political analyst and researcher Júlia Almeida assesses that it is important to measure promises beyond absolute numbers, reflecting on two main points: the degree of difficulty in implementing the fulfilled proposals and also the nature of the proposals with the impact of their management.
For her, it is possible to assess that the execution of public security proposals can be considered efficient from the point of view of implementing the agenda of a “more violent” police, in line with the defense of the governor’s allies, but not from the point of view increase public security for the population.
“Compliance with campaign proposals needs to take into account these problematic issues. He may come to comply in full, in an attempt to strengthen the construction of his image of efficient management. The objective is to become palatable for 2026. The costs, as we have seen, are high for the population”, says the researcher.
