A Câmara Municipal de Juiz de Fora no período autoritário (1964-1985): impactos sobre a instituição e a dinâmica político-eleitoral

Abstract

The present study has as investigation object the Municipal Legislature during the period of the authoritarian regime of 1964-1985 in Brazil, taking the Municipal Council of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, as a case study. Thus, it was sought to analyze: what happened to the Municipal Council in question after the 1964 coup and the consequent establishment of a new authoritarian regime of permanence; and what the institutional changes on the legal and political order and the political party and electoral system were. The analysis dimensions mobilised in the study are the institutional dimensions, electoral and political, organizational and legislative production. The dissertation develops in three chapters. Chapter I discourses on the early impacts of the 1964 coup and the new regime inaugurated by this event over the city and the Municipal Council of Juiz de Fora. Chapter II addresses the changes in law and policy in the formal level, investigating whether and how these changes impacted the Municipal Council in practice. Chapter III is devoted to analysis of municipal elections for the positions of the executive and legislative, as well as competition and the electoral and party dynamics of the municipality. For such practice, many different research techniques were used: (a) the documentary analysis, with the local newspaper sources Diário Mercantil, the Minutes of Proceedings of the Municipality of Juiz de Fora, the legislative production processes, federal law period as the Institutional Acts, the 1967 Constitution, the Constitutional Amendment No. 1, 1969, among others; (b) the analysis of data such as electoral data of the municipal elections that took place between 1962 and 1982, informed by the Superior Electoral Court and the periodic Mercantile Journal, legislative and production data provided by the digital file and the physical file of the Municipality of Juiz de Fora; and (c) discourse analysis through interviews with councilors who were in office at the time.