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The audio comes from a São Paulo City Council meeting on 31 March 2015, when Fernando Haddad was mayor of the city and was discussing Ceagesp and the Arco do Futuro urban development project. During that discussion he joked about reorienting development to the right, immediately adding that he meant it in a metaphorical sense, evidently. The moment circulated online as a short political soundbite because the pun works both as urban planning language and as political commentary. It remains useful for Brazilian creators commenting on shifts in direction, policy changes, and political irony.
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Fernando Haddad jokes about turning right, in a metaphorical sense, during a 2015 São Paulo City Council meeting about Ceagesp and urban development.
This clip captures Fernando Haddad speaking calmly and with dry humour during a São Paulo City Council meeting, as he plays on the double meaning of turning right while discussing the reorientation of urban development around Ceagesp and the Arco do Futuro project. His voice is measured and conversational, with a brief pause for emphasis before he clarifies that he means it in a metaphorical sense, evidently, which lands as a knowing joke rather than a political statement. The humour comes from that careful, almost academic delivery colliding with a phrase that sounds political, making listeners smile at the wordplay and the self-aware timing.
