Reflexões acerca da atuação das procuradorias dos entes políticos enquanto promoventes do bem comum dos cidadãos: o caso da Advocacia-Geral da União - AGU

Abstract

In the quest for the realization of a Democratic State of Law, based on respect for the law and where everyone has the opportunity to develop fully in accordance with your own determination, the homeland institutions responsible for activities typical of Public Advocacy gain special attention, since these are competent to defend the heritage and the public interest in court. Within this context, is imperative to analyze deeper the Advocacia-Geral da União, as the part of the Brazilian State responsible for representing, in court and outside court, the bigger of the federal entities, as well as providing advisement and legal consulting for the Executive Power. However, the main question is: Is the AGU developing effectively their occupations and, concomitantly, providing the well fare to citizens? From this problem, the present study, using hermeneutic research, as well as reviewing the legislation and the relevant jurisprudence, seeks to reflect on the activities of that institution, revealing, as a result, which significant advances have occurred, as well as the main problems to be faced and the possible solutions to them. It concludes, therefore, the need for structural investments and, especially, for the review of the major axioms espoused by the Federal Union’s Lawyers, in a way that the public policy and the national treasury are protected, without happen a frontal lesion on individual, social and diffuse fundamental citizens’ rights.