São PauloSunday’s surprise first-round leader says pensions will outrun inflation.
He spoke a day after a report said his fiscal plan capped benefit spending at inflation.
His advisers are studying 250 billion reais in savings, about 2% of the economy, partly by indexing health and education spending to inflation.
Campaign economist Adolfo Sachsida says any adjustment would cut government excesses and keep all social programmes.
Flavio Bolsonaro meets President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil’s 25 October runoff.
How each outlet framed it
- Reuters
- reports contradiction between leaked plan capping benefits at inflation rate vs public pledge not to balance books on backs of needy
Sources: Reuters