Senator Marcos Pontes faces complaints over limited campaign involvement
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- Members of Tarcísio de Freitas’s campaign ticket in São Paulo say Senator Marcos Pontes has taken part in few campaign activities.
- Pontes has mainly posted on social media and recorded videos for candidates from his own party, while doing little to seek votes for the ticket’s candidates.
- He did not comment when contacted through his press office.
Members of Tarcísio de Freitas’s ticket in São Paulo are openly dissatisfied with Senator Marcos Pontes, whom they view as absent from campaign events.
Pontes, from the Liberal Party, has limited his participation to a few social media posts and videos recorded for candidates from his party. The article says he has done little to seek votes for de Freitas and for the ticket’s two Senate candidates, André do Prado of the Liberal Party and Guilherme Derrite of the Progressives.
On Wednesday, September 2, Prado included Pontes in a criticism that the state’s senators were unknown to voters. Pontes did not respond when contacted through his press office.
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Originally published by Folha de S.Paulo in Portuguese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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