The PEC nº 88/2019

between populists, common popular and a reflective democracy

Abstract

This research aims to analize possbible juridicional impacts about the constitutional control model that the proposal of the constitutional amendment (PEC) nº 88/2019, elaborated by the chamber of deputies, can stir up. According to the justification in the reffered PEC, the proposal was made due to the protagonism of the Judicial Power on the constitutional understanding - that, supposedly, shifts the relevant discussions that should be made in the legislative chamber - to the judiciary. Therefore, the referred proposal would be an attempt to recovery the role of the legislative in its typical power of legislate, limiting the role of the judiciary. Thereby, the present work analizes the desired changes considering the notion of popular constitutionalism ou dialogical, structured by Mark Tushnet and develop by Roberto Gargarella, checking up how these changes can bring thogether (or not) the people and the Constitution. To dialog with this theory, is shown the perception of the reflexive democracy ideals defensors - for example, Pierre Rosanvallon and Thomas Passos Martins - and how they conceive the role of the court and the constitutional judicial review. In conclusions, the reffered proposal has a generic subtantiation and carries a traditional notion of democracy and people,certain precautions should be taken regarding some theories that advocate greater congressional participations, under penalty of a disruption of the separation of powers.