Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, with the restriction of access to face participation in the National Congress and with government agencies, social groups mobilized in other ways to pressure institutions. In research carried out and published here in this repository, we examined the use of digital media as a pressure mechanism against the federal legislature, through online petitions for the approval of laws, as in the case of emergency aid, and to encourage the legislature to act, as in requests for postponement of ENEM.

Although both the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate have spaces for popular manifestation on the internet - such as the E-Citizenship and Legislative Participation pages of the Chamber of Deputies , in addition to ombudsmen and e-mail lists for parliamentarians - the restriction of circulation and voting only remotely resulted in the reduction of space for public debate. This is revealed in the fact that more than 4 million demonstrations were made in online petitions directed to parliament. Here we bring some, published on petition sites like Avaaz, Change.org and Public Petition for you to know. To learn more, check out our research report.

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Various requests and petitions for Impeachment

Throughout the research of petitions, several presented the same request: the Impeachment of the President of the Republic Jair Messias Bolsonaro.

In all, there are already more than 106 requests stopped for the president of the Chamber of Deputies to decide whether or not to continue.

Here we present together the three with the highest number of adhesions until April 2021. In all, there are more than 794 thousand signatures in support of these petitions and no movement seems to move the drawers of the president of the Chamber of Deputies, who is solely responsible for making or do not walk these requests.

The three online petitions listed were created by citizens and use hashtags that are already seen daily on social networks such as #ForaBolsonaro or #ImpeachmentJá . Unlike bills, impeachment requests are not accessible for citizens to support or not directly on the House website until they are accepted by the president and become ongoing legislative actions in the House.

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End Fundão for parties and allocate R$ 3 billion in 2020 to fight coronavirus

Faced with the pandemic crisis with the coronavirus (Covid-19) and with the need for resources to pay ICU rates, assembly of ICU beds, mechanical respirators, hospital masks and other items necessary to combat the pandemic, citizen Renato Silva Pithon Júnior created this petition requesting the transfer of the party fund for these actions.

The author retrieves the information that, during the 2015 electoral mini-reform, the Special Fund for Campaign Financing (FEFC) was created, which allocates resources from the National Treasury to the elections. The amounts for 2020 approved in the budget were 3 billion reais. The request of the petition is to end the Fund once and for all and pass on the values ​​for health in 2020. The campaign created the hashtag #3bifundaoparacombatercovid19 and had more than 179,000 signatures.

Seven bills dealt with the issue (PLs 646/20, 648/20, 649/20, 663/20, 664/20, 712/20 and PL 2158/2020) and had only 17 thousand demonstrations against the fund that was maintained, used in the 2020 elections and expanded for the 2022 elections, with an estimated value exceeding R$ 5 billion and support from the government bench in this approval.

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Congress: let's use the value of politicians' corporate cards against COVID-19

Citizen Anderson Muniz de Santana created this online petition in the face of a number of infected people in the millions, with the country in crisis and with no prospect of when we would resume normal life, and in the face of health concerns and also the economy.

The author reinforces that the Three Powers have corporate cards, used for various expenses. With the recent reports of high expenses and lack of transparency of values, they raise suspicion about the real values ​​spent on them. The citizen's request was for Congress to approve the targeting of the amount spent on corporate cards to combat the coronavirus.

Even with more than 144,000 supporters, the petition was not even able to get any bill passed through the National Congress on the matter.

Discover the petition here .

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Cut salaries of deputies, senators and advisors in half to fight COVID-19

Citizen Diego Lopes created the petition to request reduction in wages in the face of the crisis of the new coronavirus. Deputies and senators who, according to the author, receive many perks outside their salary, such as cost aid, transport and housing, these parliamentarians cut their salaries in half so that they can invest in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic!

In April, the petition had more than 420,000 signatures, while the Legislative Decree Project ( PDL 90/2020 ) that addresses the issue had less than 600 supporting signatures.

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Nursing: Salary floor, special retirement and 30 hours of work week!

Created by the citizen who identifies himself as Luciano da Saúde, the petition reinforces the importance of nursing professionals and takes advantage of the pandemic moment to reinforce the debate around the regulation of the profession.

For the author, the ideal is for these professionals to have an update of the professional standards that govern their performance with new regulations with 30 hours a week without salary reduction, special retirement and far beyond the other professions!

The petition is directly related to four bills in progress : PL 2564/2020 / PLl 5640/2020 / PL 2997/2020 / PL 459/2015 and has more than 250,000 supporting signatures.

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Manifest Letter for the Paid Quarantine for Housemaids and Daily Workers!

Manifest letter from daughters and sons of domestic workers and day laborers whose objective was to trigger the policy of the common good, in which individual actions are essential for the well-being of the community. The letter seeks to get support so that domestic work is not considered essential and for maids contractors to release their professionals, thus, it would be possible to respect the social isolation requested by the WHO to control the pandemic, through paid leave.

According to the IBGE , professionals who provide domestic services – which may include maids, day laborers, caregivers, gardeners, caretakers – represent a total of 6.3 million workers. And only 1.5 million work with a formal contract, 2.3 million workers work without a formal contract and 2.5 million are day laborers, which makes them a vulnerable group in the pandemic .

The petition for the letter was made at the height of the pandemic and the authors reinforce that the largest number of workers affected were precisely those who were abandoned by labor laws. The day laborers in an even more precarious and vulnerable situation, without legal contracts that allow, for example, to negotiate an advance on vacation and others had to face even more obstacles in maintaining themselves and guaranteeing the safety of their family group, as they are paid per day worked.

The manifesto was signed by more than 131 thousand signatures and were three projects (PL 798/2020 and PL 651/2020 / PL 2740/2020) that addressed the issue without a final definition, but were judicially excluded from essential services. The projects had the support of less than 50 people on the websites of the Chamber and Senate. The group also created three hashtags: #QuarentenaRemuneraJa #PelaVidadasDomesticas and #PelaVidadeNossasMães.

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