A metamorfose da vila a município: a emancipação política de Senador Alexandre Costa/MA (1980-1997)

Abstract

This research analyzes the trajectory of Vila Espírito Santo to the political emancipation of Senador Alexandre Costa – MA, between the years 1980 – 1997, seeking to understand the history of this space through the social and political memories that contributed to its transformation, previously belonging to to the City of Governador Eugênio Barros - MA, from where it was separated on November 10, 1994 by State Law No. 6,153. In this way, the objectives are to know the reasons for the political emancipation of the Municipality, identify the transformations and influences of social and political relations before and during the elevation of the territory, in addition to pointing out the main public figures who participated in the formation of the Village and the Municipality. The methodological actions used were bibliographic reviews and documentary consultations, in addition to the use of oral history with interviews with six people who were eyewitnesses to this process of emancipation, being fundamental for maintaining the memory and formation of the institutionalization of this municipality. As a result, it is observed that despite having started from a State action in conjunction with eighty other municipalities in the nineties, it has its own particularities analyzed in the progress of the work, comprising the metamorphosis of a Village that blossomed into a municipality, in the midst of local political articulations of its agents, with, in addition to the territorial change, the change of name in this process.