From the “movement” to the mandate: the Democratic innovations of the “Muitas” and the “Gabinetona”

• Autor(a) principal: Brasil, Flávia de Paula Duque
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Anelli, Fernando Resende, Bechtlufft, Rodolfo Pinhón
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cgpc/article/view/81772

This article aims to analyze the democratic innovations created during the candidacies and the collective 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 candidacies 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 democratic 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 documentary research related to the experience. The article found that the proposed innovations contributed, despite their limitations, to oxygenate political representation and democratic institutions within the municipal legislative.