As audiências públicas no processo legislativo: a participação popular na câmara de vereadores de Ijuí

Abstract

The Public Hearing is the main form of social participation in the legislative process, it means on the construction of the Laws. Hearings take place during the investigation stage of the legislative process when projects are in the House Thematic Committee, foreseen in the legislation as mandatory, without those there is no legitimacy in the creation process of law and legality itself is compromised. The aim of this study was to investigate the process of popular participation in the Chamber of Council members of Ijuí through the Public Hearings held for Law projects, which were processed in the Ijui Legislative in a given period, verifying social participation and effectiveness of Public Hearings. This is a documentary, descriptive and exploratory research under qualitative nature, which employed the case study method. Data was collected through surveying the permanent estate of the House and its information systems, as well as through interviews with the councilors of the parliament. The data analysis revealed that the Council of Ijuí failed to promote the effective participation of society in the legislative process, and demonstrated the critical factors that led to this result.