NÓBREGA, A. M.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5763862363194287; NÓBREGA, Afrânio de Medeiros.
Resumo:
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.