Author:

• Carmen Fontes Teixeira - Teixeira, C.F. - <carment@ufba.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8080-9146

Co-author(s):

• Jamilli Silva Santos - Santos, J.S. - <jamilli.santos@ufba.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8965-0904

Abstract:

The objective is to analyze the performance of the Federal Government (FG) in the pandemic of COVID- 19, seeking to identify the tensions and conflicts between actors and institutions of the three branches of government and the FG with state governors. The production of data included a review of articles, publications and documents that analyze the evolution of the pandemic and record pronouncements, decisions, actions, debates and controversies between these actors in the period 2020- 2021. The analysis was carried out in the light of the theory of action, especially the variables of Carlos Matus’ strategic analysis. The results include the characterization of the action style of the central actor (president of the Republic), and the analysis of conflicts between the Presidency, Ministry of Health, ANVISA, state governments, Chamber and Senate and the Federal Court of Justice, seeking to correlate them with the debate around the political projects for health in dispute in the current conjuncture. It is concluded that the central Actor largely used a communicative action aimed at his supporters and strategic action characterized by imposition, coercion and confrontation in the relationships he maintained with other institutional actors, especially when the divergedhis vision about facing the health crisis, coherently with its link to the ultra neoliberal and authoritarian political project of the current FG, which includes the deconstruction of the Unified Health System.

Keywords:

COVID-19; Legislative; Judiciary; Federal Government; Unified Health System

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