{"id":280,"date":"2025-04-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/?p=280"},"modified":"2025-04-10T00:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T00:55:07","slug":"lula-em-campanha-o-estado-brasileiro-como-maquina-eleitoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/lula-em-campanha-o-estado-brasileiro-como-maquina-eleitoral\/","title":{"rendered":"Lula in the campaign \u2014 the Brazilian State as an electoral machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of the institutional agenda of the Presidency, President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva recorded videos supporting the campaigns of Eduardo Paes (RJ) and Guilherme Boulos (SP). The acts are legal \u2014 but they reveal yet another facet of a structural problem: <strong>the use of the state apparatus as an extension of party strategies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This behavior is not exclusive to the current government. But the recurrence with which the Brazilian state serves electoral purposes raises an uncomfortable question: <strong>Who controls the power when power controls everything?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Electoral Leviathan<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The public sector in Brazil is gigantic \u2014 and as such, it offers a disproportionate advantage to those who command it. Positions, budgets, appointments and institutional propaganda are often confused with political campaigns, especially in election years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The line between what is public and what is partisan becomes blurred. And the cost falls on the taxpayer, who finances not only the structure of the State, but also, indirectly, the reelection projects of its leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The theory of public choices<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Public Choice School (or public choice theory), formulated by James Buchanan, the politician acts with personal incentives \u2014 <strong>not as guardian of the common good<\/strong>, but as an agent that responds to stimuli. The State, then, becomes a stage for exchanges, favors and alliances aimed at perpetuating power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the president records electoral videos while performing institutional functions, what we observe is not just political engagement \u2014 it is evidence that the <strong>Brazilian state has been captured by partisan logic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Representation or rigging?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The usual justification is the \u201cdefense of the political project\u201d. But when this project controls ministries, public banks, regulatory agencies and official communication, we are faced with a distortion: the transformation of the State into <strong>power maintenance machine<\/strong>, and not of plural representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil needs to decide whether it will continue to accept the electoral use of the State as something natural \u2014 or whether it will seek institutional containment mechanisms. Because when the government is confused with a party, <strong>democracy becomes a fa\u00e7ade \u2014 and the State, a permanent electoral mechanism.<\/strong><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O apoio p\u00fablico do presidente Lula a candidatos nas elei\u00e7\u00f5es municipais reacende o debate sobre o uso do Estado como ferramenta de manuten\u00e7\u00e3o de poder pol\u00edtico. Este artigo analisa como a m\u00e1quina p\u00fablica \u00e9 frequentemente capturada por projetos eleitorais, \u00e0 luz da Teoria da Escolha P\u00fablica, revelando os riscos do aparelhamento institucional e da fus\u00e3o entre governo e partido.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow55rbCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[130,137,131,132,134,129,133,135,136],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politica-e-poder","tag-aparelhamento-do-estado","tag-comunicacao-institucional","tag-eleicoes-municipais","tag-escolha-publica","tag-estado-e-partido","tag-lula-em-campanha","tag-poder-e-politica","tag-presidencialismo-brasileiro","tag-uso-leitoral-da-maquina-publica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}