Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has another dinner with businessmen, scheduled for this Friday night (24).
The host will be the owner of the operator Qsaúde, José Seripieri Junior, as anticipated by “O Globo”.
If the program started on Monday (20) is maintained, there will be at least four dinners between Lula and representatives of the business community in less than ten days.
At the first meeting of the campaign’s political council, on May 23, Lula said that, once it was ready, he would put his plan “under his arm” to present it to the various sectors of the economy.
That’s what the PT has been doing since Monday (20), when he followed the final draft of the guidelines of his program, launched the next day.
On Tuesday (21), at the launch of these guidelines, he said that he had participated on the eve of a dinner offered by the founder of Insper (Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa), engineer and economist Cláudio Haddad.
At the table, the chairman of the board of directors of Itaú Unibanco, Pedro Moreira Salles, the president of Natura, Fábio Barbosa, and the president of the Magazine Luiza chain, Frederico Trajano.
In addition to Lula and his vice-president, former governor Geraldo Alckmin (PSB), the PT candidate for the government of São Paulo, Fernando Haddad, participated in the meeting.
According to reports from those who attended the dinner, businessmen expressed concern about Lula’s statements about the proximity of his ticket to social movements and about “recovering the country”.
Business leaders asked what the fiscal anchor would be, since the government plan announced by PT’s ticket provides for the repeal of the spending ceiling.
In response, Lula has said that his and Alckmin’s governments are proof that there will be no upheavals.
On Tuesday (21), the former president made another nod to the so-called productive sector by stating that in a government program one cannot be irresponsible in proposing the unfeasible.
According to allies, these meetings also end up undoing the idea that Lula would be spiteful after 580 days in prison.
On Sunday (26), Lula and Alckmin will participate in a dinner at a restaurant in Itaim Bibi, an upscale area of São Paulo.
Organized by Grupo Prerogativas, the event will feature around 130 guests, including businessmen and lawyers.
As Mônica Bergamo anticipated, the invitations cost from R$3,000 to R$20,000, destined for the PT. The dinner, according to organizers, would be a way of thanking the party’s supporters.
Like Bolsonaro and the pedestrian Ciro Gomes, Lula was invited to a meeting organized by Grupo Esfera, which would bring together about 50 businessmen.
Lula and Ciro have already expressed interest in participating. Bolsonaro has yet to respond.
Next Tuesday (28), Lula has another meeting scheduled. Kept confidential, the guest list includes, for example, names from the financial, healthcare, pharmaceutical and air transport sectors.
Host of the dinner scheduled for this Friday night, José Seripieri Junior has been friends with Lula since 2011, when they were introduced.
In July 2020, Junior was arrested in an operation that investigated irregularities related to José Serra’s 2014 election campaign, when the toucan was elected senator for São Paulo.
In December, he presented a plea bargain proposal.
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