Do Distrito ao Município: uma avaliação preliminar do processo de criação de distritos em Minas Gerais no período 2014-2021

Abstract

Assuming that the creation of new districts is an incentive for the creation of future municipalities, although such a possibility is remote due to the absence of a Complementary Law regulating Constitutional Amendment No. 15/1996, the article analyzes the process of creating districts in Minas Gerais in the recent period. It highlights the period 2014-2021, when 165 new districts were created, a number 516% higher than that recorded in the previous eight years. Since during this period there were no changes in the legislation pertinent to the creation of districts, and the intensity of the process in Minas Gerais was not accompanied by the same movement in the other UFs, the search for possible explanations focused on specific processes in the state that could encourage such a rush. One of the hypotheses raised here is that the Minas Comunica II Program, implemented by the State Government between 2014 and 2020, by aiming to expand mobile phone service in Minas Gerais towns, became a mechanism to encourage the creation of new districts in the state.