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Brasilia, April 27 (EFE) .- The Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, gave up recording a message commemorating Labor Day to be displayed on TV 1 May, as he did in his first four years in office, after the boos were heard in several cities in his last statement.

“The president will talk with the workers but by social networks. It is a way to give value to other media “, said today at a press conference the Minister of the Ministry of Social Communication, Edinho Silva, announcing that this year will be no reserved a national radio and television to broadcast the speech of the president on May 1.

The spokesman said the decision not to carry traditional presidential message for Labor Day was taken at a meeting Monday of the political coordinators of the Government and denied it for fear that the ruling could be booed.

“The president does not fear any form of native manifestation of democracy. But right now we believe that the best form of communication is social media. She gives value everyday communication in the print media and television, but this time decided appreciate social networks, “said

The last time. That the head of State made a statement in nationwide network of radio and television boos, horns and banging on pots were heard in several cities, mainly in the most affluent neighborhoods in protest against the president.

The pronouncement was shortly after the protest marches against the Government they mobilized in March to about two million Brazilians in dozens of cities.

The popularity rating of Rousseff is in its historic least four months after beginning his second term of four years due to the rejection of population fiscal adjustment announced by the Government to address the serious economic crisis and that the then candidate for reelection denied that would launch.

The protests were also fueled by the huge corruption scandal state oil company Petrobras splashed fifty politicians, mostly from the ruling coalition supporting the head of state.

This is the first time in thirteen years that a Brazilian president does not transmits a discourse on television to mark Labor Day. The tradition was started by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), predecessor and political godfather of Rousseff

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