This monitoring will define how and when the strategies, developed in a personalized manner for each client, will be initiated. The action is essential and different at each of the three levels of government: federal, state and municipal. I often say that we have several “Brazils” represented not only in the internal regulations of each of the legislative houses, but in their informal functioning, in the way in which relations between the executive and legislative branches of each city occur, in the access of the electorate to the elected parliamentarians, etc.
Many variables are important for defining the action strategy and, after the pandemic, subnational entities gained even more importance and political strength, demonstrating that relationships with stakeholders must be planned, with continuous communication and not just in times of crisis.
Taking into account your experience as a professional in the oman mobile database RelGov area, what were the biggest difficulties you faced when implementing strategies in states and municipalities?
The lack of information and transparency in some states and municipalities makes it difficult to understand and monitor the political scenario and, consequently, to perceive regulatory risks and opportunities. And, surprisingly, this situation does not only occur in smaller municipalities; we find it occurring in states and capitals as well.
Currently, each legislative house, whether state or municipal, has its own website/system for processing legislative matters; even the localities that use the Legislative Process Support System (SAPL), developed by the Federal Senate, do so in a disjointed manner, which is why obtaining information continues to be our biggest obstacle.
The pandemic has brought many changes to this scenario, with deliberative sessions, committee meetings and public hearings taking place remotely. We have had cases, such as in the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro, where very important discussions took place in WhatsApp groups.
There is also the situation of localities that used the adversity to implement technological advances on the website, starting to broadcast their meetings regularly, updating their agendas frequently and making available documents related to the processing of legislative matters; others, which did not have as many resources, started to use the house's social networks, such as Facebook and Instagram, to record their legislative activities.