Flavio Bolsonaro dismissed reports that he would halt real minimum wage increases, eliminate automatic adjustments for social benefits or reduce mandatory social expenditures. (EPA Images pic)SAO PAULO: Brazilian senator Flavio Bolsonaro said on Friday that, if elected president, he would seek to curb Brazil's rising public debt without touching politically sensitive social spending commitments, rejecting media reports that his campaign was considering such measures.
The right-wing lawmaker, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, will face leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a runoff on Oct 25 and currently leads polls against the incumbent.
In an interview with TV Globo's Jornal Nacional, the most-watched newscast in Brazil, Bolsonaro pledged to deliver a 200 billion real (US$39.49 billion) fiscal adjustment in the federal budget if elected
