Poder local e disputas oligárquicas em Junco do Seridó-PB (1962-1985).

Abstract

This dissertation is part of the Culture and Cities Research Line, aiming to analyze and discuss the conflicts of political power and its political party game in the Municipality of Junco do Seridó PB, during the period 19621985, analyzing how the ruling class disputed and dominated local politics, without ideological confrontations whose political program established the defense of democracy or dictatorship. Oligarchies competed for positions of state control to reproduce the interests of the ruling class, in order to reproduce their power base. Thus, we show that politics in Junco do Seridó, in the years before and after the 1964 coup, is reported several times as a dispute between local political leaders divided into two party groups marked by old rivalries, collusions, friendships and enmities in the disputes for power. The Junco political groups, although they were in opposing party camps, were part of the landlord class and lived off the exploitation of workers. With the 1964 coup and the establishment of another political regime, the Bonapartist Dictatorship whose mainstay of bourgeois domination was in force, the Juncoense oligarchies continued to dispute local power through elections, although in a different context and political reorganization. As a matter of fact, the Military Dictatorship maintained for some time the expedients of Bourgeois Democracy, like the parliament and the direct vote, except in the capitals. The writing of this work was carried out through the use of bibliographical, oral, documentary and related procedural sources, to carry out narratives with local residents. These sources were analyzed from the perspective of crossing information, as a methodological strategy.