O legislativo municipal de Vitória e a política de enfrentamento às drogas : atos, debates, formulações e não decisões

• Autor(a) principal: Basílio, Mirian Cátia Vieira
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6529
• topic: City legislative; Formulation of policies; Drugs; Public policy; Legislativo municipal; Formulação de políticas; Drogas; Política pública; Serviço Social; Políticas públicas; Poder legislativo - Vitória (ES); Câmaras municipais - Vitória (ES); 32

The objective of this study is to analyze the legislative process in the formulation of public policies for drugs in the city of Vitória, ES. The data were obtained from visitsto the Legislative Department of the local City Hall in order to identify projects of laws, as well as laws, in the period of 1999 to 2005. Information in processes and shorthanded records, in addition to registers in a journal were also collected. It was possible to identify 22 projects of laws within the period of 1999-2005. After the documents were carefully read, the projects 66/2000 and 315/2005 were selected for further studies, which required the analysis of projects 371/1999 and 192/2002. Four representatives, authors of laws created in 2005 (PL 13, PL 512, PL 122, and PL 315) and two former representatives, whose laws were related to the documents found in the above mentioned journals (PL 66 and PL 315) were interviewed. Of the 22 projects that were proposed, 15 were approved, 3 were vetoed, 2 were filed (1 as requested by the author and another due to the end of a term), 1 had a request for delay, and 1 was annexed to another. Most of the propositions were made by representatives who were affiliated to political parties linked to the victorious one in the election of 1996 and 2000 (PMDB and PSDB) which formed the majority in the city government from 1999 to 2004. The laws focused on: educational campaigns and actions; restrictions on sales in certain sites (alcohol); prohibition of publicity; prohibition of purchase and use. Ten of the projects proposed restrictive measures. The public policies on drugs formulated by the city government are inscribed within a context which is, on the one hand, permeated by the display of explanation and recommendations that could guarantee the adjustment of citizens to the social order, seen as a non-historical, unquestionable, unchangeable, and ideal entity; on the other hand, they provide repressing and punishing interventions which exclude users as a threat to institutions and society as a whole. The analysis of the legislative process made possible a reflection about the long and intertwined process that involves different interests, the confrontation and negotiation between several instances, and also between governmental, and non governmental, actors in the configuration of public policies that are not restricted to drugs