Rousseff withdraws statement on television after boos – EntornoInteligente

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EFE Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, gave a commemorative message recorded by Labor Day to be displayed on television May 1, as he did in his first four years in office, following the boos that 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,” he said 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 president’s speech on May 1.

The spokesman said the decision not to transmit the traditional presidential address by Labor Day was taken at a meeting on Monday of the political coordinators of the Government and refused it for fear that the ruling may be booed.

“The president is not afraid of any form of native-democracy demonstration. But at this time we believe that the best form of communication is social media. She gives value everyday communication in the media print and television, but this time decided to see social networks, “he said.

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

The statement was shortly after the protest marches against the government that mobilized in March to nearly two million Brazilians in dozens of cities.

The popularity rating of Rousseff is at a record low four months after beginning his second four-year term due to the rejection of the population that announced by the Government to address the serious crisis fiscal adjustment economic and that the then candidate for reelection denied that would launch.

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

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

Information Carabobo