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Lula accepts Flávio Bolsonaro’s conditions to open records and sets Thursday deadline
The PT candidate’s campaign said it will file its response with the Superior Electoral Court at 11 a.m. Thursday. It also demanded that his rival do the same by that time.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s campaign said the PT candidate has accepted the conditions set by Flávio Bolsonaro to open his banking and phone records, as well as those of his relatives. Campaign coordinator Camilo Santana said the response will be filed with the Superior Electoral Court at 11 a.m. on Thursday.
According to Agência Brasil, Santana said Lula has no objection to any of the requirements proposed by his opponent, provided that Flávio also complies with what was requested in the filing already submitted to the court.
Lula’s campaign also set the same Thursday 11 a.m. deadline for Flávio to authorize the opening of his own records and those of his relatives. Santana said the issue cannot be postponed until after the election, with the runoff scheduled for Sunday the 25th.
The dispute began during the presidential debate on Sunday the 18th, when Lula challenged Flávio to open his banking and phone records, including those of his wife and children, if Lula did the same. Agência Brasil reported that Lula had gone to the Superior Electoral Court on Tuesday the 20th to authorize disclosure of those records and was waiting for his rival’s position.
Flávio replied on Wednesday that he would agree, but only under additional conditions. Among them, according to Agência Brasil and Folha de S.Paulo, was the inclusion of Marco Aurélio Santana Ribeiro, a former presidential chief of staff. Agência Brasil also said he demanded the release of businesswoman Roberta Luchsinger’s entry logs at Palácio do Planalto and the opening of records for José Ferreira da Silva, known as Frei Chico, Lula’s brother.
Folha de S.Paulo added that Lula’s campaign also accepted including Marco Aurélio Santana Ribeiro’s records. The newspaper also reported that Camilo Santana criticized Flávio for leaving Alcazar Holdings out of the list of companies covered by the disclosure request.
G1 Globo reported that Camilo Santana described Flávio’s conditions as a maneuver. The outlet also said that at a campaign event in Belo Horizonte, Lula accused his rival of spreading false claims about the case.
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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.
