Falcão will monitor PT's texts on the internet.
Following an offensive post against Eduardo Campos and Marina Silva on Facebook, the leadership summoned journalist Leandro Fortes to oversee the publication of official content online; texts will be subject to prior approval and will have to be signed.
247 - The national leadership of the PT (Workers' Party) has decided to take control of the party's social media posts. Last week, the party's Facebook page published a text that was extremely critical of Eduardo Campos (PSB) and Marina Silva, which caused controversy.
Titled "The Ballad of Eduardo Campos," the unsigned Facebook article commented on Campos' recent stances against the government of President Dilma Rousseff (PT). According to the PT, the governor of Pernambuco, "encouraged by the watchdogs of the media, decided it was time to present himself as a candidate for president of the Republic – without a plan, without substance, and, as we now know, without political composure."
The text further emphasizes that Campos believed the media, which "until then, treated him as a spoiled playboy favored by Lula's Workers' Party," and says that he "was led to place within his Pernambuco nest the serpent's egg called Marina Silva, this phenomenon of national politics who, curiously, despises politics by doing the worst thing one does in politics: practicing pure and simple opportunism."
The national president of the PT (Workers' Party), Rui Falcão, summoned the party's communications secretary, José Américo, the party's vice-president, Alberto Cantalice, and the journalist Leandro Fortes to discuss the matter.
From now on, nothing will be published without prior authorization, and the leadership has also prohibited the publication of unsigned texts.