Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here] and several other cases of state superintendents appointed by the Environment Minister despite the lack of technical qualification [find out here] [find out here] [red id=1349-IN] [find out here] [find out here] [find out here] [find out here] [find out here]
Read more about these fires here [1], see report on the normative changes affecting environmental policies in September – including the declaration of a state of emergency [2] and read more about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here] and the dismantling of environmental policies by the Bolsonaro administration [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.