Read more about it here – in Portuguese [1] [find out here]. Implementing so-called ‘civic-military schools’ is a flagship project by the Bolsonaro administration that, according to the government, aims at improving the quality of basic education, find out more about it here [2]. Critics, however, claim the project is unconstitutional and represents an authoritarian and anti-pluralistic view of education, read it here [3].
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.