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BRASIL Flávio Bolsonaro visited Globo headquarters in Rio before giving an interview on the network
According to O Globo, the PL candidate was received by top executives in an institutional visit with no journalism leaders present. Later, he took part in an interview broadcast by TV Globo, GloboNews and g1.
Flávio Bolsonaro, the PL presidential candidate, was at Globo’s headquarters in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, October 16, for what O Globo described as an institutional visit. He was received by Grupo Globo president João Roberto Marinho and institutional relations vice president Paulo Tonet.
According to the same report, no leaders from Globo’s journalism division attended the meeting. The outlet added that this kind of request is part of the routine for media company executives and that courtesy meetings with electoral candidates are common.
Later in the day, Bolsonaro gave an interview from Estúdios Globo in Rio as part of coverage of the 2026 presidential runoff, according to g1. The program was aired by TV Globo, GloboNews and g1.
In that interview, the senator said he would keep the minimum wage adjustment linked to inflation, would not decouple pension increases, and would not remove minimum spending requirements for health and education. He also said he would pursue a fiscal adjustment by cutting ministries and through other revenue measures, g1 reported.
According to that outlet, he also said he had changed his position on ending the 6×1 work schedule after listening to workers during the campaign and denied he would seek to reverse the measure if elected. He also addressed a possible judicial reform, defended the impeachment of Alexandre de Moraes, and said Kassio Nunes Marques should also be investigated over the allegations raised in the interview.
g1 also reported that Bolsonaro said he would not support changes to reelection rules that would allow relatives to run, denied that Eduardo Bolsonaro would become foreign minister, and said his father, Jair Bolsonaro, had not asked him for any role in a future government.
On public security, the candidate said those involved in the January 8 events should be punished under the law and in proportion to the crimes committed, while also questioning the characterization of those acts as an attempted coup, according to g1. He also said he would respect the election result and stated that one of his first acts if elected would be to gather military and police chiefs to declare war on drug trafficking.
The day also drew political reactions. According to Folha de S.Paulo, the interview triggered pot-banging protests in neighborhoods of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The newspaper also reported that Lula criticized Globo during a campaign event in Ipatinga, questioned the company’s impartiality, and said the broadcaster was now under suspicion from his campaign after Flávio Bolsonaro’s lunch or meeting with company executives.
Still according to Folha de S.Paulo, Globo said the meeting was institutional, involved no journalism executives, and that Lula would also have been received had he asked for a visit.
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About this piece. Written by El Notero with AI assistance, from reporting published by the outlet cited above. El Notero did no original reporting on this story.
