Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva participates this Sunday night (26) in a dinner in thanks for donations made to the PT. According to organizers, the total raised is about R$ 3 million.
About 200 people, including jurists and businessmen, are at the meeting.
The forecast is that at least three more like this will happen: one in Rio de Janeiro, one in Minas and one in the Northeast.
Leader in the research for the Planalto Palace, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has, on Tuesday (28), another dinner with businessmen.
Hosted by lawyers Sérgio Renault, Marco Aurélio Carvalho and Pierpaolo Cruz Bottini, the dinner has on the guest list the businessmen João Camargo, founder of the Esfera group, and Carlos Sanchez (EMS). The presence of representatives from the airline industry is expected.
In addition to Lula, former governor Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) and PT leaders participated in a dinner in gratitude for donations destined for the PT.
The dinner served as a test drive for the fundraising campaign that the party plans to launch in July.
PT Treasurer, Gleide Andrade says that this is a new stage in a fundraising campaign. This time with the use of Pix.
A video will be released with a request for collaboration for the former president’s campaign. The expenditure ceiling should be set at R$ 131 million.
On the other hand, federal deputies, PT leaders and vote-takers claim an individual quota of R$ 2.5 million from the electoral fund.
The party leadership tries to negotiate the reduction of this amount, which should reach R$ 2 million.
The PT’s intention is to hold dinner in Minas, Rio de Janeiro and the Northeast to reach the ceiling set for Lula’s campaign, without compromising the budget of candidates for federal deputy.
Since the presentation of the programmatic guidelines of his campaign, Lula has participated in a series of dinners with representatives of the business and financial sector.
On Friday night (24), the host was the owner of the operator Qsaúde, José Seripieri Junior.
On Tuesday (21), at the launch of these programmatic guidelines, Lula 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.
Among the guests, 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.
“And I, with a great lack of humility, said [no encontro]: who in this country has more authority to recover this country than Alckmin and I?”, Lula reported.
Speaking of him and Alckmin, PT added: “Nobody in this country has the parties and social movements supporting nor the managerial experience that we have to take care of public affairs. We don’t need time to learn.”
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