“…The interests of particular sectors predominate over community needs (BATISTA, MELO, 2011), and in certain situations, the lack of compliance in relation to the Council's makeup can result in an increase in the influence of the power of specific sectors, such as the government and/or service providers (COTTA, CAZAL, MARTINS, 2010). These situations reveal the asymmetric power relations at the heart of these councils, weakening and bureaucratizing spaces for political deliberation, in addition to making them inaccessible to the population in general (COTTA et al, 2010;GUIZARDI, PINHEIRO, 2006).…”