“Assine o abaixo-assinado”; uma análise de petição eletrônica como instrumento de efetivação da democracia participativa por meio da propositura de projetos de lei de iniciativa popular

Abstract

Currently, to be assessed as a potential new law, national popular initiative proposals must undergo a complex formal method under Law No. 9,709 /98. Until today, to be accepted by the Chamber of Deputies, have to go through the mandatory manual signing of 1% of the national population, spread over five states of the federation. In this study, there is an analysis of how popular longings for participatory democracy in Brazil are often frustrated by the difficulty in using direct participation. Among them, the petitions that aim at the creation and modification of laws, which are, absolutely, one of the main mechanisms of popular participation, and that despite the advent of communication technologies, they have not undergone changes to facilitate electronic signatures. Here the problems of the current model of national popular initiative will be presented, the alternatives of popular participation used by other countries, and the reform proposals brought by the parliament itself. The central reflection of this respective work is based on the analysis of the importance of adapting the proposition of bills to the possibility of creating bills of popular initiatives from the internet, exposing, for comparative purposes, how the popular initiative occurs in other countries and highlighting the history of attempts to insert this important form of social action in the Brazilian legal system.