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Federal deputy Tiago Mitraud (Novo-MG) filed a project to end the need for a diploma for more than 100 professions
In the Chamber of Deputies, a project was filed by federal deputy Tiago Mitraud (Novo-MG) that would end the need for a diploma for 106 professions. Among the professions cited are veterinarians, engineers, physiotherapists, journalists, architects and nutritionists. In addition, the examination by the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) for practicing law would also be cancelled.
As the deputy who proposed the measure did not run for re-election, what are the chances of the project being approved?
The chances of the project being approved by Congress are practically 0%. As the deputy did not run for re-election, he will not be in the Chamber to defend his text in the next legislature. Furthermore, his party only elected two federal deputies, a weak bench that would not be able to take forward a proposition that affects a hundred different professions. Even if his project continues to be processed, he does not have a designated rapporteur to give an opinion on the matter, which is the first step for a proposal to start being discussed in the Chamber.
More about the project
To justify the deregulation of the professions, the deputy said that the diplomas do not guarantee security in the provision of the service. According to him, “by imposing numerous entry barriers, professional practice is limited to conditions that often do not reflect criteria that, in fact, make the practice safer. What happens is that interest groups seek a slice of the market for their exclusive use”.
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Tiago Mitraud also claims that the current rules “stiff the market” and push millions of Brazilians into illegality. For him, “the deregulation of professions in Brazil is a debate that needs to be faced. It is high time we moved from a highly regulated society captured by corporatism to a society in which the consumer gains prominence and the professional ceases to be a hostage of corporate elites, who perpetuate themselves in the power of class councils, coercing the categories themselves with annuities and abusive penalties”.
According to the federal deputy, the objective of his project “is to eliminate the corporatist monopoly of several class councils and extinguish numerous limitations of Brazilian access to work and a greater offer of services. No profession will be 'extinct', and the bad exercise of professional activity will continue to be subject to civil and criminal penalties”.
