silent majority, noisy minority and authoritarian spasms

Luiz Armando Costa

The suspension of the concession process for government areas in Jalapão shows a reversal of the principle that minorities must submit to majorities, even though their decisions may not be infallible, nor their decisions. Even if the misunderstandings of the majority had, rationally, greater representation and, therefore, extended legitimacy.

Indeed, by subordinating the interim government for the common good of all to the will of the minority on the basis of argumentation, it has established an inadequate relationship capable of encouraging institutional arbitrariness. And the resulting scrutiny that temporary insecurity would fuel electoral populism and comparative political paradigms with the use of public administration.

Because any errors of a minority, taken indefinitely and recklessly as successes or accepted as errors, would indiscriminately entail consequences for the non-consulted majority. Something that the very way it was decided to cancel the process speaks volumes. Without noticing that all opinions are true, disdaining double talk. I wonder if a businessman has emerged to defend the dealership.

More than the will of the quilombolas and tourist operators, thus, the unilateral and apparently improvised interruption of the legal process of granting a public space released and titled by the government, weakens, on the other hand, the government itself. and institutions such as the Legislative and Judicial.
The first for having passed a law, at the end of a perfect legislative process, and now being informed, three months later, by the press and social networks, that it is no longer worth anything. And the second is that so far (both federal and state courts) have observed no evidence of any defect in the process (or final decisions on the matter) underway in the prosecutions brought by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office and PT.

So much so that it has been presented more as a rapture of authoritarianism (albeit legitimate in the light of constitutional powers and prerogatives), resulting from passionate spasms (with a hint of xenophobia, backcountry / Jalapão dichotomy and external enemies explorer / colonizer) the suspension of the process before the population was consulted, as provided for by law and the timetable for public hearings, undeniably ignored by the state executive, even though it had instituted it in accordance with legal provisions .

A decision communicated apparently without any technical study or demonstration or economic analysis of its impacts. Including contractual fines to which the government will be obliged to unilaterally break perfect legal contracts with the operating agent, BNDES.
Without prejudice to the observation that the government was banging its head, in view of the decrees and groups it created over the past 40 days on the issue. Some explicitly harmless, as yesterday’s decision itself exposes in practice, in its non-evaluation.

On the merits, the government opted, without further discussion or thought, for a group of helpful innocent protesters swollen by businessmen who earn millions a year with parcels sold in São Paulo, without paying taxes or improving local infrastructure and give the inhabitants crumbs.

As if a great businessman who had obtained a concession on the Stock Exchange (and as part of the BNDES litigation) to explore a public space in Jalapão was crazy for not preserving his business (the environment) and throwing away R $ 31 million (valuable investment), subject to inspections by MPF / MPE / ICMbio Ibama, Fundação Palmares and Naturatins.
A region in which only three thousand Tocantins (0.2% of the population) have already had the opportunity to know it, can be seen by the high prices charged by the operators. But that would receive 40,000 visitors / year. Against the 85,000 who visited Iguaçu National Park (cataracts, environment like Jalapão), which has already obtained concessions, in November alone. That is: 1 million tourists per year.