CASE STUDY ON THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS – CONANDA AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL TO COMBAT DISCRIMINATION – CNCD IN THE JAIR BOLSONARO ERA (2019-2022)

Abstract

Participatory Institutions were on the rise in Brazil, but social participation was attacked and began to show signs of weakness in 2014, when the National Social Participation Policy was vetoed by the National Congress under weak arguments. In the first months of the Bolsonaro government, Decree 9759/19 extinguished collegiate bodies created by inferior legal instruments and one collegiate affected was the National Council to Combat Discrimination – CNCD. Created in 2001 based on Decree 3952/01, its objective was to promote the social rights of victims of racial discrimination or other forms of intolerance and in 2010, Decree 7.388/10 included the promotion and defense of the rights of the LGBTI+ community in the CNDC competence. CONANDA was not directly extinguished but was emptied as a result of Decree 10.003/19. Starting from qualitative research, which allows us to interpret the social world, we used the documentary analysis methodology with the aim of carrying out a case study on the two councils, and we concluded that after a trajectory of visibility and management of public policies, the suppression of such a space for public debate led to the setback of rights, a fact that reinforces our argument that maintaining participatory institutions is fundamental to strengthening democracy.