What is lobbying

A " lobby " is a unit of pressure that aims to influence the decisions of the legislative or executive power in favor of specific interests. The activity carried out by these groups is known as " lobbying " or lobbying. We specify a little more of what it is, so you will become aware of the variety of agents that end up making governmental decisions. Photo: www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com

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Lobbying actions focus on finding appropriate interlocutors with whom to interact and interact on an ongoing basis with actors such as the Administration, to influence those in power. In this way, although the lobbies do not participate directly in politics, they do try to generate complicity with groups and conglomerates in this area, so that their decisions benefit them.

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Nowadays, power is increasingly spoken of in certain groups of influence in government. Even the term lobbycracy is used to refer to the extensive influence exerted by conglomerates and interest groups in the "policy makers" of decision-making centers such as Washington or Brussels. A lobby, in political science, is equivalent to manipulation, control and management.

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Thus, among the organizations that do "lobbying" are unions, employers, civil associations or environmental groups that fight because decisions are made based on their own interests.

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Some have called this practice an "invisible government" that has become the fifth power, after the fourth power that would be the press (and theoretically served to counteract the force that had the political entities). For this reason, the citizen can sometimes be harmed, especially if the lobbies are not seeking to satisfy a socially desirable interest (for example, savage capitalism).