Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff yesterday faced a demonstrations in several Brazilian cities where pots were struck and shouted slogans against the ruling Workers Party (PT) while transmitting propaganda policy in which participated the president Lula da Silva.
Shouting “Out PT, Dilma out!” protesters in Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro blew hard blow pots and pans from its windows in a “cacerolazo” intended to send messages against the party and the president. Other cities in the northeast such as Recife, Salvador or Florianopolis also joined the protest as it was known through social networks.
Rousseff is currently facing serious allegations of corruption related to fraud in state Petrobras , why his party, the leftist PT, aired Tuesday on radio and television propaganda ten minutes addressing poverty reduction and social progress in more than 12 years in power.
The Lula (2003-10) president participated in this program recalling his achievements as well as the leading force, Rui Falcao, not Dilma Rousseff who chose not to intervene.
This propaganda, seen as a right by Brazilian law, also addressed the issue of Petrobras and gave a message: the culprits be expelled. This political-business plot oil cost more than 2,000 million dollars and sending to prison the treasurer of the PT charged with collecting bribes to finance the party.
Rousseff, who for the second time in five days he avoided publicly display, it does not make speeches since March his words by the Women’s Day were accompanied by the sound of the pots. In fact, last May 1, Labor Day, the government spread by social networks recorded messages and would not be in the broadcasting radio and TV.
For the professor of public administration Getulio Vargas (FGV), Carlos Pereira, told AFP Foundation, this is because “the government is very defensive, is unable to react to a difficult situation in a corruption scandal millions proportions.
According to him, “the president does not have many options and postpone confronting the crisis can have even worse consequences in terms of loss of popularity.”
According to a survey CNI / Ibope in April, Rousseff’s popularity dropped to 19% , the lowest figure since taking his first term in 2010. Since March also critics of the government and PT there have been two mass demonstrations calling for his removal.
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