By decree, Bolsonaro has excluded civil society from the debate on drugs | Chronic

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has signed a decree that eliminates the participation of civil society, including doctors, psychologists, social workers and lawyers, of the National Council for Drug Policy (Conad), which will now consist only of members of the government.

"For decades, the left has infiltrated our institutions and started to promote its cross-functional ideology of technical posts, the decree I signed today extinguishes vacancies for bodies endowed with the National Council of Drugs. and puts an end to ideological distortions in the discussions. ", Wrote Bolsonaro on his Twitter account.

The decree practically extinguishes the Conad by excluding from the body the experts of various specialties and leaves to the government the choice of 85% of the members of its body.

Established in 2006 under the government of the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, this entity is responsible for monitoring and updating policies and programs in this area, which so far has 31 members, 17 government (ministers or candidates) and 14 of society.

Now, the only members outside this circle will be a representative of the National Anti-Drug Agency and a representative of the State Council.

During the 100 days celebration of the government last April, the president issued a decree that extinguished hundreds of councils, commissions, forums and other confessions of the public administration.

The measure was banned by the Federal Supreme Court in (STF, Supreme Court) at the end of June, by court order against an action of the Party of Opposition Workers.

In May, Bolsonaro reduced and modified the composition of the National Council of the Environment (Conama), which lost nearly 80% of its membership, from 96 to 23 members.