It became almost a commonplace to say that the country is cracked in the middle politically, in which friendships are undone and family fell in a continuous confrontation.
The phenomenon of polarization should assume that much of the population has spoken like never about politics, or at least more intensely than in the 1990s or 2000s.
A on Wednesday (25), showed once again that the premise has some nuances. The greater interest in the subject has not necessarily meaning a more vigilant electorate or a cornered political class.
Controversial guidelines that are not identified either “left” or “right” are articulated in Brasilia almost without opposition or popular reaction. They pass far from the zap groups or the crashes between petistas and pockets.
There are many recent examples. In 2021, Congress practically buried that, although with problems, he had been in force for three decades, imposing obstacles on the bad public manager.
Subsequently, the Electoral Fundão doubled in size for 2022, and the dose was repeated for the 2024 municipal campaign, in which R $ 4.9 billion were consumed to finance candidates for mayor and councilor.
Limits for spending were stunned to the point of impacting ordinary investments from the public machine.
All themes featured wide parliamentary adherence from right to left. None of the proposals aroused heated debate between exponents on one side or the other. They did not become a hashtag, as with proposals such as amnesty to the defendants of January 8 or the so -called customs of customs.
In the case of the increase in the number of deputies, the subject has been going on for months with scarce repercussions with society – in some way insignificant near the space consumed by the discussion about babies Reborn.
Reasons were not lacking, since it was a project presented with at least dubious justifications, even seeking to discredit the data of the, stating that the population calculation of the states made by the IBGE would have “various inconsistencies”.
In addition, the turnaround in the number of chairs in the House further dilutes the political weight of already sub-presented states, such as São Paulo, disfiguring the proportionality of the stands provided for in the Constitution.
It is an initiative that would hardly be attempted to hangover when the legislature has come to Temer, unprecedented since redemocratization, reaction to unpopular measures.
The frantic succession of matters and guidelines makes it unreliable that the wear of parliamentarians because of the measure approved this fourth endure with the electorate until now in over a year.
More than that, the expansion of vacancies in the House gives the message that the political cost for approving corporate measures is very low.
And it also signals that the sequence won’t stop there. Projects of equally problematic content, such as changes in the electoral code and the unification of elections every five years, are lurking, in line for appreciation in Congress.
