Marina's victimization shuts down political debate.
PSB candidate and her allies risk disrupting the debate when they react almost emotionally to criticisms from President Dilma and PSDB candidate Aécio Neves regarding proposals presented by the PSB campaign, states Tereza Cruvinel on her blog on 247; "If every disagreement or criticism is taken as an offense by one of the candidates, the differences are not made explicit, the debate does not flow, and the voter loses the opportunity to choose more rationally," she emphasizes; the journalist says that Marina Silva fosters an aura of "poor little thing," but reminds that everything, or almost everything, that has been criticized by her opponents in the presidential candidate's platform "was said by her or written in her government program."
247 - The victimization of PSB candidate Marina Silva has stifled political debate during the presidential campaign. This assessment comes from journalist Tereza Cruvinel, who addresses the topic in a new article in [publication name]. 247 blog"If every disagreement or criticism is taken as an offense by one of the candidates, the differences are not made explicit, the debate does not flow, and the voter loses the opportunity to choose more rationally," she says.
This weekend, Marina cried. Speaking about the criticism he allegedly received from the former president, in an interview with Folha de S. Paulo, he has positioned himself as a victim of a "front" set up by his adversaries, who want to destroy his image, as he claims. Dilma said She considered the discussion of the proposal "high-level," denying interpretations that she was attacking Marina Silva. "An election is where there is debate," the president added.
The criticisms directed at the candidate, however, are all – or almost all – based on what she has said or written in her government program, says Tereza Cruvinel. Marina "feeds the aura of 'poor thing'," opines the journalist, who describes her discourse as one of "self-pity." She warns, however, about Dilma's "slip-up," which in her opinion went "from criticism of the content to the use of a pejorative adjective against her opponent" when she said that "poor thing" cannot reach the Presidency.
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