Doações a campanhas políticas, democracia e abuso de poder econômico: análise da indústria de bebidas açucaradas não alcoólicas nas eleições de 2014

Abstract

Is a fact the necessity of financial values to make feasible the candidates political campaigns, especially today in the context that shows the high cost of those campaigns. Therefore this work aims to analyze some data about the Brazilian national election of 2014 and the influence of food companies in the Congresso Nacional’ schedule and their possible influence, both direct and indirect, of those companies with large amount of capital to intervene and defend directly the parliamentarians who has received money form those companies vote according to the private agenda, and consequently relegating to lower priority the ideology represented by the political party, for example. This fact could confirm abuse of economic power violating principles of Free Enterprise and Democracy, which the second implies the ideas of pulverization of power and popular participation condensed in the phrase: one man one vote.