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Haddad mocks Estadão for discovering that Bolsonaro faltered.

Former São Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad mocked the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo, which, in an editorial, described the cancellation of President Jair Bolsonaro's press conference in Davos, Switzerland, where he is participating in the World Economic Forum, as an "unprecedented embarrassment." "Estadão is quite upset with Bolsonaro's performance in Davos. According to the newspaper, the young man demonstrated physical and psychological unpreparedness. He faltered, but at least he didn't faint," Haddad said on Twitter.

Haddad mocks Estadão for discovering that Bolsonaro faltered.

247 - Former São Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad mocked the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo, which, in Editorial Published this Thursday (24), it classified as an "unprecedented embarrassment" the cancellation of the press conference by President Jair Bolsonaro, in Davos, Switzerland, where he is participating in the World Economic Forum.

"Estadão is quite upset with Bolsonaro's performance in Davos. According to the newspaper, the young man demonstrated a lack of physical and psychological preparedness. He faltered, but at least he didn't faint," Haddad said on Twitter.

According to the São Paulo newspaper, "Unless another plausible interpretation of his behavior emerges, Bolsonaro was unable to withstand the tension in his first international test."

Bolsonaro is also the target of criticism from the international press, which has already corroborated the president's unusual participation. On Tuesday (22), for example, after speaking for only 6 minutes out of the 45 available, Sylvie Kauffmann, a columnist for Le Monde, wrote about "Bolsonaro's fiasco in Davos, unable to answer Klaus Schwab's questions concretely. 15 min. of generalities".

The difficulty in communicating with the press is already evident in the president, who has been giving preference to social media. This Wednesday (23), he used Twitter to say that the national media criticized his speech made the previous day because of the cut in advertising funds.