Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has agreed to Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s conditions for releasing personal records, his campaign said in Brasília on October 21. Lula’s acceptance depends on his presidential rival also authorizing disclosure of the records requested by the president.

Campaign coordinator Camilo Santana said lawyers would submit Lula’s formal response to Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court, known as the TSE, on October 22. The campaign also set that morning as its deadline for Bolsonaro to respond, ahead of the October 25 runoff.

A challenge expands beyond the candidates

Lula challenged Bolsonaro to disclose his records during their televised debate on October 18. On October 20, he filed conditional authorization with the TSE to release his own records, including banking, tax and electronic data covering the previous eight years.

Bolsonaro’s campaign said it would release the requested information if Lula broadened his offer. It sought records involving the president’s advisers, security staff and companies owned by his children.

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Santana said Lula accepted all the conditions, provided Bolsonaro fulfilled the requirements in the president’s original filing. The Brazilian magazine Revista Fórum put the number of Bolsonaro’s demands at 19.

What Bolsonaro wants released

The requests extend beyond Lula’s personal finances. They include records from Instituto Lula, the company L.I.L.S. Palestras and businesses linked to the president’s children, according to the Brazilian newspaper O Sul.

Bolsonaro also sought records concerning former presidential aide Marco Aurélio Santana Ribeiro, known as Marcola. Other demands cover presidential corporate-card spending since January 2023 and the institutional schedules of Lula’s wife, Rosângela da Silva, known as Janja.

The senator requested visitor records from the Planalto presidential palace and details of Lula’s December 2024 meeting with banker Daniel Vorcaro. He also sought information about businesswoman Roberta Luchsinger’s access to presidential palaces and possible air force flights, alongside records concerning Lula’s brother, Frei Chico.

Revista Fórum reported additional requests involving visits by Lula’s sons to the Alvorada presidential residence, spending at the residence and helicopter use.

Lula seeks family and company records in return

Lula’s proposal covers his wife and five children. In return, he wants disclosure involving Bolsonaro’s father, Jair Bolsonaro; mother, Rogéria; brothers Carlos, Eduardo and Jair Renan; and wife, Fernanda.

The president’s list also includes companies linked to the senator. O Sul reported that it names Alcazar Holdings, a company belonging to lawyer Willer Tomaz, which was absent from Bolsonaro’s own list.

Santana described Bolsonaro’s additional conditions as an attempt to obstruct disclosure. At a campaign event in Belo Horizonte on October 21, Lula accused his opponent of inventing lies and used the card game truco to mock the demands.

The next step is the formal response promised by Lula’s campaign. Whether Bolsonaro will authorize disclosure on the terms Lula requested remains unresolved, as does which records would ultimately be disclosed.