Citizenship councils mechanisms inseparable from effective democracy

Abstract

Democracy, as a system of political organization, presupposes the participation of society, and the Federal Constitution provides, at various times, for possible forms of action by its citizens, one of which is the citizens' councils. However, the organization and use of the councils as a tool for dialogue with the State is flawed, little used and little observed. The objective of this work is to analyze and highlight the importance of the role of the citizens' councils, focusing on constitutional provisions. This is a literary review, with an exploratory and critical-descriptive approach. It was concluded that the citizens' councils are legitimate instruments in the structure of the Democratic State of Law, whose purpose is to promote a more fluid dialogue with the State, based on more direct action by society so that its decisions are made in favor of the population itself and its diverse realities, preventing the rules of the democratic game from being distorted or hijacked from the citizens, as if they were for their benefit.