Author:

MARCIO VIEIRA SANTOS

Abstract:

The work aims to show and help elucidate issues relevant to political and electoral reforms being implemented in the country, the period between May 2009 and December 2012. The data were collected and information relating to the object of study by the National Congress and the Commission of Jurists Electoral Reform then created by the Senate in 2010. The aim is to identify the scope of the reforms, if adjusted to the wishes of popular sovereignty and thus configured as democratic instruments permissive to effective popular participation in power or if, alone, guarantors interests of dominant political groups seeking detachment from popular control in the management of power. Where is the voice of society in this process? This work starting the reforms proposed or implemented in mentioned time frame, making demand critical examination of real political interest in building new political and electoral legal headquarters in the country, namely, if appropriate to the logic of maximum effectiveness constitutional democracy and sovereignty backed popular aesthetic of a constitutional or adjusted to realistic dominant political interests. Hence the defense of a vital and dichotomous line between axioms guiding models representative democracy and direct-deliberative members formatting constitutional paternal power, which in constant motion functional complementation of each other, especially, should serve as pillars to the validation of such desired reforms. At the end brings together some suggestions for reforms to be included in the agenda as a means of strengthening democratic participatory direct-to be used towards full sovereignty popular today. In concluding lines emphasizes that the implementation of reforms cannot function as a panacea and that necessarily must directly or indirectly meet the aspirations of the people, so they need to pass through the sieve volitional prior approval for efficacy popular social.