ANTI-DEMOCRATIC TENDENCIES IN POLITICAL PARTIES IN A CITY OF SÃO PAULO

Abstract

From a practical point of view, political associations suffer marked factual disagreements. In contemporary Brazil there is a lack of respect for political associations. The article is based on the masters research whose general objective was to identify the existence - or not - of undemocratic inclinations in the parties, internally, by the influential ones, if there are vices and, if so, which ones are and if the usual practices contribute. with the current lack of prestige of political associations. The research of qualitative approach, using the Oral history, conducted interviews with three actors of political associations, linked to the parties of the MDB, PSDB and PT, with experiences in the internal bureaucracy to choose majority candidates for municipal suffrage. For the purpose of this article we analyze the undemocratic tendencies found in the practice of political parties in a municipality of the Paraíba Valley Metropolitan Region - SP.