The vote for the presidency of the Chamber and the , scheduled for February 1st, has the likely scenario of the election of (-PB) and (-AP). In this situation, in which the two hardly need to campaign, central themes in the functioning of Congress are ignored in the public debate.
Civil society organizations have sought to highlight the discussion about the Chamber’s regulations — rules that define the processing of projects and the organization of positions and committees. This after (-AL) having, in the presidency, used the distribution of reports to increase power over his colleagues, scheduled quick votes and modified the regulations in order to take away the strength of opposition and minority tools.
Among the entities involved in this effort is the Pact for Democracy, which developed an agenda that suggests . Among them, establishing criteria for the urgency regime for projects, reviewing remote voting rules, strengthening committees and publishing the plenary agenda in advance.
This Thursday’s Breakfast (23) discusses transparency in the Chamber, ways to facilitate citizen participation in the legislative process and what could change with the new presidency. Arthur Mello, coordinator of the Pact for Democracy, and political scientist Beatriz Rey, post-doctoral fellow at EACH/USP and researcher associated with the Popvox Foundation (USA) are interviewed.
The audio program is published on Spotify, a streaming service partner of Sheet in the initiative and which specializes in music, podcast and video. You can listen to the episode by clicking above. To access the app, simply register for free.
Café da Manhã is published from Monday to Friday, always at the beginning of the day. The episode is presented by journalists Gabriela Mayer and Gustavo Simon, produced by Lucas Monteiro and Paola Ferreira Rosa. Sound editing is by Thomé Granemann.
