The document argues that Brazil is facing a political and economic crisis due to corruption scandals and a flawed political system. It calls for President Michel Temer to be removed from power and for a new exclusive National Constituent Assembly to be convened to reform Brazil's political system and institutions. The goals of the new Assembly would be to carry out political reforms, reform the state and public administration, ban corrupt politicians and parties, and convene new elections. It believes these changes are needed to address Brazil's current problems and reorder the country on new bases.

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MICHEL TEMER REMOVAL AND NEW CONSTITUTION TO RE-ORDER
THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF BRAZIL
Fernando Alcoforado *
It is well known that every nation consists of an economic base and a political and legal
superstructure. In Brazil, its economic base is profoundly weakened by the devastation
produced by neoliberal governments from 1990 to the present. In turn, the political and
legal superstructure is also in crisis in the face of the ethical and moral disruption that is
present in all instances of government. Brazilian institutions represented by the
Presidency of the Republic, the National Congress and the Judiciary are bankrupt
because they are failing to solve the gigantic political, economic, social, ethical and
moral problems that affect Brazil.
In addition to the bankruptcy of its economic base and its political and legal
superstructure, Brazil faces a process of ethical and moral disruption in the political-
institutional plane never seen in the country's history. The moral and ethical crisis is
manifested in all the powers of the Republic which is evidenced by the successive
corruption scandals that occur each day that has become endemic throughout the
country and in attempts to produce laws and measures aimed at safeguarding the corrupt
ones that infest the government and the National Congress.
The Republican system in force in Brazil is, in fact, a democracy only for the corrupt. In
this system, the elections are a sham because they are controlled by the big companies
that make that the majority of the candidates in their service win, as demonstrated by
Lava Jato Operation which investigates corruption in government. It is a game of cards
marked because national and international economic groups have always boosted the
big parties by financing their millionaire elections. Companies and banks elect their
"countertops" at various levels of legislative power that approve laws in favor of the
powerful on the basis of vote-buying and lobbying, and even bill state millionaire
contracts. The assault on public coffers by politicians and parties and the occupation of
public administration positions of the governmental machinery at the service of the
ruling parties became commonplace in Brazilian political life.
The political crisis that now shakes Brazil is fundamentally due to the bankruptcy of the
political model approved in the 1988 Constituent Assembly. The bankruptcy of Brazil's
political model is shaped by the fact that presidentialism in force since 1889 has
generated political and institutional crises such as those have occurred in the past that
have resulted in impeachments and coups d'état. In addition, the country's political
system is contaminated by corruption as evidenced by the "mensalão" and Lava Jato
operations which investigates corruption in government.
The facts recently denounced by Joesley Batista, president of JBS, the largest producer
of animal protein on the planet, proven corruption involving President Michel Temer,
Senator Aécio Neves, former deputy Eduardo Cunha, former minister Guido Mantega,
among others, demonstrates the rot in which is the Brazilian political system that,
unfortunately, is constituted in its overwhelming majority of corrupt politicians. Michel
Temer heard from businessman Joesley Batista that he was giving to Eduardo Cunha
and operator Lúcio Funaro bribe in prison to be quiet. Aécio Neves was recorded asking
Joesley for R$ 2 million. The money was handed to a cousin of Aécio Neves, in a scene
duly filmed by the Federal Police. The article on the website

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<https://extra.globo.com/.../dono-da-jbs-grava-temer-dando-ava...> shows the slough of
the political system in Brazil.
The current situation is demanding not only the departure of President Michel Temer of
the power and the exemplary punishment of the corrupt politicians who still rule in the
country, but above all the constitution of a provisional government of national salvation
composed of high level people who should call an Assembly National Constituent
Exclusive to carry out the political, State and Public Administration reforms. After the
Constituent Assembly, new general elections should be convened in the country.
The current political crisis in Brazil is demanding a profound change in its political and
legal superstructure through a National Constituent Assembly. This change cannot be
restricted to the search for punctual improvements, but rather to structural
improvements that encompass the entire political, economic, and social system of
Brazil. One of the main objectives of a new Constituent Assembly in Brazil would be to
make a political reform to ensure the presence of authentic representatives of the people
and to prevent access to the Brazilian parliament of execrable figures, to create true
political parties and, in addition, implement effective political mechanisms that allow
for the social control of those elected by political parties and by the population.
The realization of a new Constituent Assembly in Brazil would make it possible to
correct the distortions of the 1988 Constitution and make it possible to establish new
directions for Brazil, not only in economic, political and social terms, but also in ethical
and moral plans. The new Constituent may open the way to the changes required for
Brazil at the present time. This Constituent Assembly should not, however, participate
in the current National Congress members, but citizens who are not committed to
current political practice and who decide to contribute to the reconstruction of the
country's political life.
In order to rebuild the political institutions of Brazil, it is necessary that the Brazilian
people mobilize to demand the removal of President Michel Temer from the presidency
of the Republic and the immediate convocation of a new National Constituent
Assembly to reorder the national political and economic life on new bases. The
exclusive Constituent Assembly to be convened to re-order the national life would have
as objective: 1) to carry out the reform of the country's political system with the
institutionalization of the district vote and the reduction of the number of
parliamentarians and their stewardships in the federal, state and municipal parliaments ,
Among other measures; 2) to promote the reform of the State and Public Administration
on new bases; 3) to ban political parties and parliamentarians committed to corruption;
4) to form new political parties after the new Constituent Assembly; And, 5) to convene
new general elections in the country, among other measures. The Exclusive Constituent
Assembly to be convened should also institute parliamentarism and decide for the end
of the Federal Senate with the institutionalization of the unicameral system.
*Fernando Alcoforado , member of the Bahia Academy of Education, engineer and doctor of Territorial
Planning and Regional Development from the University of Barcelona, a university professor and
consultant in strategic planning, business planning, regional planning and planning of energy systems, is
the author of Globalização (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1997), De Collor a FHC- O Brasil e a Nova
(Des)ordem Mundial (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1998), Um Projeto para o Brasil (Editora Nobel, São
Paulo, 2000), Os condicionantes do desenvolvimento do Estado da Bahia (Tese de doutorado.
Universidade de Barcelona, http://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/1944, 2003), Globalização e
Desenvolvimento (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2006), Bahia- Desenvolvimento do Século XVI ao Século XX
e Objetivos Estratégicos na Era Contemporânea (EGBA, Salvador, 2008), The Necessary Conditions of

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the Economic and Social Development-The Case of the State of Bahia (VDM Verlag Dr. Muller
Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010), Aquecimento Global e Catástrofe
Planetária (P&A Gráfica e Editora, Salvador, 2010), Amazônia Sustentável- Para o progresso do Brasil e
combate ao aquecimento global (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2011)
and Os Fatores Condicionantes do Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2012),
among others.