Agências internacionais e interesses eleitorais em um processo de orçamento participativo: o caso do "Orçamento Do Povo" em Toledo/Pr

Abstract

The municipality of Toledo, in Paraná, developed, from 2010 to 2012, the People s Budget proposal to provide participation for the same reasons originally presented in the Participatory Budgeting (PB) from Caxias do Sul. The survey was conducted through bibliographic research, with documentary analysis and participant observation in the People s Budget meetings, and it is centered on two main axis of analysis; the first permeates the relationship of the People s Budget and the interests of the Progressive Party and their associates; the second shows the spread of the PB in Brazil and its relation to the development project supported by international organizations, such as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The study demonstrated that the manager of Toledo possessed interest in implementing this form of participatory budgeting, giving it the name of People s Budget and making changes in its institutional design to target electoral interests. The IDB also approved a funding project for Toledo, tying a set of propositions in city management in which the central figure is the efficient manager, who should strive to promote social participation of users through channels and instances of citizen participation, proposing the supervision of assets rather than a determination about them. The People s Budget turned out to be a proposal used as a demonstration of transparency and democratic image of the manager, within and outside the municipality, which in its operationalization responded to electoral interests and was compatible with the neoliberal model of democracy.