The contribution of Public Prosecutors to the judicialization of politics and social relations

• Autor(a) principal: de Moraes Filho, José Filomeno
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Costa Lima de Sá, Fabiana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista do Direito Público
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/direitopub/article/view/36471
• topic: Public Prosecutor's Office. Judicialization of politics. Judicialization of social relations.; Ministério Público. Judicialização da política. Judicialização das relações sociais

In Brazil, discussions and debates surrounding the judicialization of politics and social relations has gained momentum in recent years. Therefore, this research examines the role of public prosecutors in the process of judicialization. Likewise, prosecutors can be both the petitioner of the control of abstract constitutionality of the Brazilian Federal Constitution and the author of public civil lawsuits. This paper uses descriptive and qualitative models, with bibliographical resources, such as scientific papers, documents and data obtained from the internet. Initially, this paper examines the role of the Public Prosecutor's Office from the perspective of the Brazilian Constitution. Afterwards, this paper investigates the Public Prosecutor's contribution to the judicialization of politics and social relations. Towards the end, this study concludes that the Public Prosecutor, as a petitioner, has actively contributed to the overuse of the judicialization process, but that its performance in the control of abstract constitutionality was quite relevant in quantitative terms mainly until 2016. In other situations, when acting as a prosecutor of the law, prosecutors have not collaborated in upholding the legal process, but rather act politically in the judicialization of facts.