BrazilTarcísio de Freitas, an engineer and former army officer, was Brazil's infrastructure minister from 2019 to 2022 and has been governor of São Paulo since 2023 for Republicanos. He oversaw the Sabesp privatization, expanded civic-military schools and stood for re-election in October 2026.
In the 12 Axes register, Tarcísio de Freitas leans hardest on Planned – Markets: Markets 83%; the register median is Planned 68%.
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Where Tarcísio de Freitas sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Federal
Governs São Paulo within Brazil's federal system
Representative Democracy
Elected governor in 2022; stood for re-election in 2026
Statist
2023–24 coastal police operations left 84 civilians dead
Anti-Interventionist
Aligned with Bolsonaro's national-conservative movement
Neutral
Former army engineer officer; no distinct defense stance
Centrist
No distinct policy on immigration or minority rights
Capitalist
Completed the 2024 Sabesp privatization
Free Market
Privatized airports and ports as infrastructure minister
Free Trade
Structured concessions to attract foreign capital
Spiritual
Practicing Roman Catholic
Traditionalist
Expanded civic-military schools
Neutral
Took no distinctive technology position
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Planned – Markets
On Planned – Markets, Tarcísio de Freitas is at Markets 83%. The register median is Planned 68%.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, Tarcísio de Freitas is at Democratic 68%, almost the register median of Democratic 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.gov.br
Portrait: Ciete Silvério/Governo do Estado de SP, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
