In times of total discredit in politics and, mainly, us politicians, the newspapers and BrasÃlia are in an uproar every time a new scandal emerges that could end up affecting the fate of the elections in 2002. The government, is busy increasing the president's popularity; the opposition, is busy finding new cases of corruption; the common citizen, concerned about employment and quality of life, which persists in remaining poor for the majority of the population.
All of this, with greater or lesser effort can be found in our history. O que dá um ar de "coisa nova" At this moment there is a strong presence of dissatisfaction in society. This dissatisfaction is deeper when we think about the case of the government, but it is also significant in relation to all political projects. You can't less, only one party (PT) offered a government project to criticism and even so it did not achieve much social repercussion; generally, criticism and praise are limited to members of the government and opposition.
Analysts of all political affiliations and shades emphasize that the formal democracy we have today is little threatened by the political-electoral scenario that lies ahead. Even so, The discontent of the population leads to the negative vote. Por isso é mais fácil escutarmos nas ruas "vou votar em fulano porque não agüento mais sicrano" ou "vou votar no candidato de sicrano porque seria uma loucura ter fulano na presidência"…
This negative vote, after being balanced by conservative and progressive forces, will elect the new head of the nation. The big problem is that it does not give social legitimacy to the ruler, that has to be tied to formal legitimacy (that the elections gave him). Thereby, the traditional forms of Executive-Legislative relations will remain the same – despite the increase in modernizing pressures in the Brazilian social structure. As long as the Brazilian population is unable to organize itself in a way that puts pressure on governments to observe the real conditions of general quality of life and, about everything, be able to organize your support for a certain political project, we will continue to leave Brazilian democracy to be just a system full of meanings, but empty of content.
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