Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro authorized the simultaneous lifting of bank secrecy three days from the second round of Brazilian presidential. The exchange of accusations about the effective delivery of accounts dominates the final line of the campaign in an election race in which candidates appear tied.
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22/10/2026
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Lusa
O brazilian president, Lula da Silva, and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro today authorized the "reciprocal, simultaneous and total" survey of their respective bank secrecy, three days from the second round of elections, according to the Workers' Party (PT).
“Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Flávio Nantes Bolsonaro candidates for the Presidency of the Republic, already qualified in the case, come together to inform that they fully accepted the reciprocal terms of the challenge object of these records and authorize the full opening of their respective secrecys”, says the document, according to portal G1.
The candidates' campaigns signed a letter addressed to the Superior Electoral Court with the terms of the agreement, which expires at midnight today.
The President of the Workers' Party, Edinho Silva, asked journalists in a statement to “celerity” the prosecutor and the electoral court to implement the measure before the second round, which takes place this Sunday.
"This shows Lula's transparency," said Silva, who realized the campaign's intention to make the information available on a public access page on the Internet.
Lula's spokesmen also stated that the Brazilian leader had accepted the demands imposed by Jair Bolsonaro's son to disclose his own banking information.
However, the Bolsonaro campaign reported that the opponent did not submit any bank documents and accused him of ‘playing’ and of creating a ‘smoking curtain’.
After Lula challenged him to open his accounts during the election debate last Sunday, Bolsonaro said he would only accept it if the head of state allowed, among other conditions, the lifting of banking secrecy of one of his children, Fábio Luís Lula da Silva, investigated for traffic of influences.
The President's campaign has insisted, for his part, on access to the banking information of a company the opponent allegedly holds with a lawyer investigated for money laundering.
This discussion has dominated the final line of the election race, in a context in which the two candidates appear technically tied in polls.
The second round of Brazilian presidential is held on Sunday.
In the first round, on October 4, Flávio Bolsonaro obtained 47.03% of the valid votes, against 45.16% of Lula da Silva, an advantage of 2,224,965 votes, and since the introduction of the system of two laps in Brazilian presidential, in 1989, no candidate who finished the first vote in second place managed to win the election.