ID: 64427
Authors:
Flávia de Paula Duque Brasil, Fernando Resende Anelli, Rodolfo Pinhón Bechtlufft.
Source:
Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania, v. 26, n. 85, p. 1-20, September-December, 2021. 20 page(s).
Keyword:
collective mandates , democratic innovation , representation , social movement , social participation
Document type: Article (Portuguese)
Show Abstract
This article aims to analyze the democratic innovations created during the candidacies and the collec- tive mandates of the movement “Muitas pela cidade que queremos” (many for the city we want – in free translation) in Belo Horizonte. The “Muitas” movement emerged in the capital of Minas Gerais in 2015, with the aim of gathering actors from different social movements in order to build collective candida-cies to compete in the 2016 municipal elections. With the campaign slogan “voted for one, voted for all”, twelve candidacies were launched, marked by progressive guidelines and by the representativeness of gender, race and sexual orientation. Two councilors were elected, who proposed a series of demo- cratic innovations with the aim of sharing decision-making and carrying out an open and participatory mandate. Considering democracy, social participation and representation, as well as the concept of democratic innovations, this paper seeks to understand which and how such democratic innovations were built along the trajectory of the “Muitas” movement, as well as their democratizing potentials. For this, semi-structured interviews were made with a parliamentarian and activists, in addition to docu- mentary research related to the experience. The article found that the proposed innovations contrib- uted, despite their limitations, to oxygenate political representation and democratic institutions within the municipal legislative.
