Author:

Matheus Pina

Abstract:

Brazilian political reality changed drastically with the democratization at the end of the 80’s. Because of that opening, we saw a growing number of political actors seeking to influence the political agenda of the nation, these actors started to have great weight on the deliberative
process, and their political agenda became much vaster. Beyond the political opening, we also saw a commercial opening on the presidency of Collor. How does it matter? The offer of foreign products in Brazil grew vertiginously, which affected directly our national productive sector.
Therefore, at the end of last century, the reality was that politics became opened, and the economy too. Consequently, the productive sector had the restructure its political strategy so that they could implement a more favorable reality to them. It was within that moment of crisis
that lobbying gained strength. The goal of this essay is to analysis what are the characteristics of the lobbying successes of the Confederação Nacional da Indústria (CNI) through Agenda Legislativa da Indústria, which has been able to organize the political strategies of the national
industrial sector since 1996, seeking to reduce “custo Brasil”, giving greater capacity for the national products to face the foreign ones. From our study here, we can notice that part of the success of CNI is on stopping unfavorable agendas from becoming acts, in other words, it was
identified that the bills which resulted in success to the CNI, were those that diverged from the interests of this organization. Those bills were stopped by the CNI; however, they were not reject, only there wasn’t deliberation.