On Twitter: what did the presidential candidates say in the last 24 hours?

Attack by Bolsonarist deputy against Vera Magalhães, food and financial insecurity, flags, campaigns. Want to know what happened on Twitter? This Wednesday (14), most of the presidential candidates' tweets dealt with the economy (26,5%). In second place on the list of most cited topics was 'corruption', and 'deputies' in third. The data is part of the Estadão/Torabit Social Network Monitor.

Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (PT)
4.3M followers

  1. Will see: The candidate's usual “good morning” message on his Twitter was accompanied by a mention of the new attack suffered by journalist Vera Magalhães, this Wednesday (14), by the Bolsonaro deputy Douglas Garcia (Republicans). Lula repudiated the harassment of the professional, and said that acts like this are promoted by people who live “in hatred” towardsThey don’t like “democracy”. ⤵
  2. Cooperatives: Accompanied by his vice-candidate Geraldo Alckmin, Lula met with representatives of cooperatives and the creative economy in São Paulo. “We need to discuss how to create jobs for the Brazilian people,” said the former president. He defended “a new development model that takes into account the creativity of human beings” during the meeting. ⤵
  3. Unemployment: In another tweet this Wednesday (14), Lula once again pointed to the problem of unemployment. “We need to create decent work for the people”, he added, contrasting with the large contingent of informal workers. ⤵
  4. Congress: Lula told voters that it is necessary to “elect deputies from our team” to form a “majority” in the National Congress and then make changes based on, for example, laws. He called the mission the “responsibility of the people.” ⤵
  5. “TokTok”: The candidate made a call to “who spends all day on their cell phone, on zap, on tiktok, on 'toktok'” warning about the urgency of combating misleading information disseminated on the internet. ⤵

Jair Bolsonaro (PL)
8.8M followers

  1. Home: Bolsonaro announced a new round of deliveries for the Casa Verde Amarela program, in states of Alagoas and Paraná.⤵
  2. Mail: “Today, Correios employees receive profit sharing from the company, which has broken records”, alleged Bolsonaro, saying that during the PT governments the group was financially harmed “by the biggest corruption scheme in our history”. And he continued: “That’s the importance of independence to form a government.” ⤵
  3. Sao Paulo: Campaigning in the city of Presidente Prudente, in the interior of São Paulo, the candidate released a video in which he met with supporters. Later and on one of his motorcycles, Bolsonaro visited the capital of Rio Grande do Norte. Last Tuesday (13), He almost lost control of the motorcycle, running the risk of having an accident during another motorcycle ride, in Sorocaba (SP). Congress in Focus. ⤵
  4. Will see: Bolsonaro did not comment, at the time of publication of this article, regarding the attack by the deputy who supports him against Vera Magalhães. At the time, the verbal aggression repeated words from the current presidentsystem. (Metropolises)(I.e.

Ciro Gomes (PDT)
1.4M followers

  1. Will see: Ciro Gomes said that the attack on the journalist this Wednesday (14) is part of a “multiple terrorist action” and called for reinforcement in the punishment of the attackers. “Rabid dogs, like Douglas Garcia, would not act with such ease if they did not have, on the one hand, the encouragement and support of Bolsonaro, leader of the faction, and on the other, the passivity of the authorities”. ⤵
  2. Hunger: The candidate drew attention to data from a recent survey on food insecurity, and blamed it on 'Bolsonaro's misgovernment' and errors 'accumulated over decades'. ⤵
  3. Pride: “I will be proud to tell my children and grandchildren”, began the presidential candidate in a message online, “I have not sold out”. Ciro referred to his “clean” record. In another tweet, he explained his plan to deal with corruption. ⤵

Simone Tebet (MDB)
364.6K followers

  1. Will see: Tebet expressed solidarity with journalist Vera Magalhães, and said he was outraged upon learning about the 'barbarity'. ⤵
  2. Hunger: Like Ciro Gomes, the candidate brought up the issue of food insecurity and the numbers that show the scale of the problem. ⤵

Top photo: Reproduction

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