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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Government and Banks: save the Bars and Restaurants sector during the Covid-19 crisis

Citizen Vitor Sapolnik, owner of Caffe Latte in São Paulo, together with chef Janaína Rueda, from Bar da Dona Onça, proposed the online undersigned asking the bar and restaurant sector for help! And reinforce that 6 million jobs are at risk.

With the coronavirus pandemic, businesses have closed their doors since March 20. But they still need to pay taxes, rent, suppliers, etc. In the midst of this crisis, working capital has run out. And banking options with high requirements and market interest rates proved difficult for small businesses.

The authors emphasize that they need low-interest credit, with a grace period, for long periods, backed by a government guarantee fund, extension of MP 936 to help with employee salaries and suspension during the IPTU crisis and the collection of concessionaires ( water, energy and gas).

The campaign created hashtags that circulated on social media #NãoDeixeFecharAConta #SOSBaresERestaurantes #ComidaDeResistência and despite more than 80 thousand signatures, PL 973 of 2021 that serves the sector was not voted on.

Access the petition here .

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Creation of economic support policies for the Brazilian Dental Surgeon

The dentist Luis Fernando Braga created this petition with the aim of drawing the attention of governments and the Legislative Power to autonomous dentists with private care and dentists who attend dental agreements with policies of economic support, support, lines of credit, differentiated tax policy for that these professionals can feel more relaxed in their reality.

The author reinforces the unhealthy nature of the profession with exposure to infectious agents, radiation, noise pollution and potential disease vectors. And, according to the professional, the INSS does not provide special retirement for the self-employed because there is no proof of risk. And in the face of the pandemic, the situation worsened with the need for closure and restriction of service by these professionals.

The author reinforces that without elective care in the office, out of respect for patients and employees and in line with the request of the organs to control the progress of the pandemic, revenue is lost but the costs of taxes, insurance, preventive maintenance, employees, rent are lost. , condominium, private security, courses and congresses, water, electricity, telephone etc continued.

The petition has more than 86 thousand signatures and PL 2424 of 2020 meets the demand and has less than 1000 supporters on the official websites of Congress.

Meet the petition .

  • Mobilized groups: Women
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Approval of PL 2564/20 in the 30-hour struggle and decent wage floor for nursing

The petition was created by citizen Danuzia de Oliveira to pressure senators for the approval of a salary floor and a 30-hour limit for nursing and nursing technician jobs. According to the author, nursing has been fighting for 20 years for the right to a maximum workload and a decent and dignified salary floor.

The demand stems from the fact that many professionals are subjected to excessive working hours and are seen by health professionals as inhumane, with salaries that are not in line with the daily reality of saving lives . The author also reinforces that nurses and nurses attended college with theoretical and practical classes for 5 years and nursing technicians took two-year courses with an intense workload of practices and theories.

During the pandemic, the need for these professionals made reality even more complex. In several countries, such as Italy, they were daily honored with palms from the windows during the most critical period of the pandemic while Brazil does not even have a salary floor established, making the reality very different financially, although similar in daily work.

The online petition has more than 320,000 signatures and the manifestations in favor of the projects being processed in the House and Senate (PL 2564/2020 / PL 5640/2020 / PL 2997/2020 / PL 459/2015) add up to more than 770 thousand supporters. , in one of the rare cases where demonstrations on official channels outnumber demonstrations on unofficial channels .

Access the petition here .

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2020/21 Income Tax Exemption for Frontline Healthcare Professionals

Citizen Marco Mendes created this petition as a way to demand real actions to value health professionals on the front line of combating Covid-19 who found themselves in a difficult reality that put them at risk. The author notes that there are difficulties for some of these professionals to resort to temporary disability insurance, as there are clauses that exempt payment because it is a pandemic.

The proposal of the petition is the subject of Bill 3.191/2020 , which deals with the exemption from payment of Income Taxes (IR) in the base year 2020/21, due to the performance in the pandemic, for frontline health professionals (doctors, nurses, nursing technicians, physiotherapists, psychologists, etc.). According to the author, the rule would be similar to the support that American soldiers receive when they go to war, and that would be a similar incentive to “lift the morale of the troops“!

Access the petition here.

  • Mobilized groups: Women
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Petition to the Chamber: approve the increase in the insalubrity of health professionals to 40%

Nursing technician Ana Miranda, created the online petition in front of the picture that appeared in the Covid-19 pandemic that caused more unhealthy work in health professionals.

According to the author, exhausting working hours, with difficulty even to have a simple glass of water, high risk of exposure for themselves and their families, and various difficulties, leading to the need to guarantee an increase in the additional insalubrity to health professionals with approval of PL 744/2020 , which calls for health professionals to rise to 40% insalubrity.

The petition in April had more than 244,000 signatures and the project is still being processed in the Chamber of Deputies with just over 900 signatures of support, which represents only 0.38% of the support registered in the online petition.

Access the petition here http://chng.it/zgHVGQtVrH

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Aid to the Cultural Sector: for the approval of PL 1075/2020

Instituto Mutirão created the online petition for the approval of PL 1075/2020, which provided for a basic income for cultural workers in the country and a subsidy for cultural spaces during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Cultural Emergency Law Project was processed on an urgent basis and provided for the granting of monthly emergency income to workers in the cultural sector (R$ 1,045.00) and support for cultural spaces (R$ 10,000.00), during the state of emergency. in health.

For the authors of the action, cultural workers, who were the first to paralyze their activities and will most likely be the last to fully resume them, will be among the most socially and economically affected by the consequences of the pandemic. According to Instituto Mutirão , the sector generates around R$ 170 billion, employs around 5 million people, formally or informally, in more than 300 thousand companies of all sizes.

The undersigned was initially created for approval of PL 1089/20 which was incorporated into PL 1075/20 along with PLs 1251/20 and 1365/20 . With more than 65 thousand supporters, it was victorious with the approval of the so-called Aldir Blan Law , in honor of the musician, poet and composer who was a victim of the coronavirus and the lack of resources for his treatment, despite being recognized nationally and internationally as one of the great names of Brazilian music. . In the course of the National Congress, the projects had the support of only 4,147 supporters, which represents only 6.34% in relation to the supporters of the online petition.

Access the petition here .

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