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This paper evaluates the realities of the social policies set in place during under Lula governments. It raises two questions about the implementation of the basic income scheme entitled Bolsa Familia : was is really devised as a form of basic income ? Could it provide leverage to a reorganization of social policies ? The study tends to show that originated as a neoliberal reform and that the deeper stakes of its implementation raise the question of a departure from its current form towards another conception of a new form of democracy.