As práticas clientelistas no legislativo chapecoense: limites e possibilidades de atuação dos vereadores 2013-2015

Abstract

If on the one hand the role of the legislature concerns legal and regimental definitions; On the other hand, the role of the councilman pervades this, is something broader. Most of the councilmen of Chapecó use the function of advising the electoral bases and from this it builds a network exchanges between councilman, elector and executive establishing the current institutional political behavior. This clientelist practice of electoral exchange in Chapecó has been going on since the colonelist period with a predominance of local bosses. The clientelist practice of the councilman in its legislative action ends up being a determining factor due to its limitation in the legislative space and subordination of the majority of councilmen to the municipal executive. This exchange of support for the executive in the House is given through the way the requests are met making this clientelist practice more clear and direct, since its access to the mayor, secretaries and departments becomes differentiated and the referral will take priority. However impersonal the exchanges and practices of patronage go hand in hand with the actions of the councilors and the relations established by them, seeking in fact to establish relations to remain in this space of power. Thus, a relationship of "obligatoriness" between councilor, elector and executive is built, to the fact that the councilman is "obliged" to return the attendance of the executive, who most of the time is conditioned to the favorable vote in the legislature, and On the part of the voter, the obligation to pay back with the vote in the next election due to the fulfillment of his request, request, favor, etc.