O Ministério Público do Estado da Bahia no enfrentamento à corrupção: Racionalidade e planejamento institucionais

Abstract

Brazilian Public Ministry is a very peculiar institution. Its duties have been definitely defined by 1988’s Federal Constitution. Although it was initially projected to defend the public administrator, after the historical process that defined its outlines, the Institution started to defend democratic interests. Still recognized as the protagonist in individual penal liability, through judicial actions, the Institution is also engaged in guaranteeing social rights, such as health, education, environment, ensuring an administration of public interests that is honest, transparent, efficient and impersonal. That way, the Institution itself, in face of the multidoor system, becomes a department for accessing justice. Therefore, the Public Ministry began to adopt governance instruments in order to define its primary actions, as well as to present to society which social results could be expected. This research analyses, then, the Strategical Plano of Public Ministry in the State of Bahia (MPBA), in what regards fighting corruption, in the actuation time span of 2011-2023, focusing on the period on the 2016-2019 Pluriannual Plan, once actuation data has been already inserted in the informatized system for this time period. In order to perform the research, it has been necessary to reach out for different research instruments, such as personal interviews, documental analysis, opinion research; to enable the understanding of how the Strategical Plan guides the execution MPBA members’ functional activities; presenting thus what methodology is primarily used by the Institution to protect public affairs, with special attention to institutional prerogatives constitutionally established, as functional independence, autonomy and unity. The research came to the conclusion that MPBA does not hold a functional architecture that guarantees the Institution accountability.