The president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva admitted this Friday (6), during a PT event, that the left has difficulty communicating with the electorate on social media and demanded that leaders act more strategically, something that the extreme right would be doing more efficiently .
The event started on Thursday (5) and ends this Saturday (7). The result in the municipal elections and the cooling in the Lula government’s relationship with the financial market affected the speeches of the party leadership.
Speaking via videoconference, as the president was in São Paulo after traveling to Uruguay for the Mercosur Summit, Lula said that “the PT is to blame” for not being more effective in communication.
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“My government is to blame because we cannot allow, at any time, someone who thinks as the extreme right in our country thinks to have more space on social media than us, to have more information on the internet than us and to be able to projecting their bad things less than we can project the good things we do”, said Lula.
“We don’t have a digitalization, I would say of the PT, that thinks like head, trunk and limbs, speaking the same language throughout the day. It is something that we will have to take into account to resolve in the two years that remain until the end of my government”, continued the president.
The PT member also commented that there is a communication failure in the government and recognized that the government and the PT are not organized to use the internet to publicize the actions carried out during his mandate. Lula committed, for example, to giving more interviews to showcase his government’s achievements.
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Furthermore, Lula recognized that the left needs to get closer to the most vulnerable population, which has always differentiated it from other political currents.
“If we don’t discuss politics inside the factory, in the commerce, in the neighborhood, if we only show up in the neighborhoods every four years to ask for a vote, we will be the same as any party in this country. We were not born to be the same, we were born to be different”, he concluded.
