O MDB-MA e seu “novo estilo de fazer oposição”: instalação e composição do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro no Maranhão (1965-1966)

Abstract

Thinking of the political party as a complex element of the State, and above all, as "organizer of collective wills" in the Gramscian conception, the objective of this work is to analyze the process of setting up the MDB in Maranhão, considering the political-partisan context of the state , the performance of executive power and the "private devices of hegemony", as a catalyst in the interests of political agents. The 1964 Business-Military coup, and its subsequent political control, an important element of party political reconfiguration was instituted: bipartisanism (1965); resulting in the formation of ARENA, the ruling party of the dictatorship, and the MDB, a consensual opposition party (1966), and considerably restricting the performance of political parties in the state structure. However, the process of setting up parties in different regions of the country, runs through different political contexts that readapts it according to its own peculiarities. Although the performance of the Business-Military Dictatorship is relevant in the composition and support of these local party groups, one can observe, however, a set of regional social and political elements that serve as a support for party formation and consolidation.