Impeachment no Brasil : uma análise das denúncias contra o presidente da república no período 1990-2018

Abstract

This study aims to identify the elements that had the greatest influence on the number of accusations for crimes of responsibility brought against presidents of the Republic elected in Brazil under the 1988 Constitution until the end of 2018. For that matter, the research problem is placed as follows: what are the characteristics of the impeachment requests filed in Brazil against the presidents of the Republic elected under the 1988 Constitution until the year 2018? For the research, all 193 impeachment requests filed against elected presidents in the period mentioned were collected. The characteristics of these requests were divided into endogenous elements (identified in the analysis of the accusation and its annexes) and exogenous elements (verifiable from others sources such as newspapers, scientific articles, the official IBGE website and the Datafolha website). The general hypothesis outlined is that the filing of impeachment requests against the President of the Republic is significantly related to the existence of large protests against the government, the incidence of corruption scandals and oppositional strategies, which encourage actors to identify the President's actions as crimes of responsibility.