Read more about it here – in Portuguese [1] [find out here]. In may 2020 a new Superintendent is nominated, also from the military and without technical qualifications [find out here]. Members of the military without the necessary tecnhical qualifications were also nominated in 2020 as superintendents in the states of Amapá [find out here], Amazonas [find out here], Goiás [find out here] and Espírito Santo [find out here], for example. Read about the context of ‘militarization’ of the environmental protection public bodies here [1]
Acts that employ tools of constant authoritarian reinvention. Authoritarian manifestations that coexist with the democratic regime and affect democracy as a system of choice of legitimate representatives or as institutional dynamics that protect rights and guarantee pluralism.
Acts justified by tackling the covid-19 pandemic or another emergency. Under the democratic constitutional regime, emergency acts must respect the Constitution and protect the rights to life and health. Even so, because they create exceptional restrictions related to the health crisis, they require constant control over their necessity, proportionality and temporal limitation. In the long run, they demand attention so as not to become an anti-democratic 'new normal' beyond the moment of emergency.