O Senado Federal e a improvável reforma política necessária

Abstract

It analyzes the viability of the majority election for the Senate of the Republic, with the primary function of the Senators representing the interests of the Federated States, provided for in art. 46, of the Federal Constitution of Brazil. In the political and economic crises experienced in Brazil, factual reasons are used to re-discuss the office of the Senate, as a balance of the federative pact, shaken by the concentration of the political and financial power of the Union, to the detriment of the federative entities, dependent on the "favors" of the central power, given the impossibility of financing their own collection. Therefore, through a bibliographical and historical review of the role of the Senate in Brazil, with support in the studies of the paradigms of federalism - the United States and Germany - it proposes an intermediate solution, respecting the history of the direct election for senator in Brazil, with the election tied to the "board" majority of governor and vice governor, to each general election.