Name: ALINE DE FREITAS DIAS
Publication date: 10/09/2018
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| UEBER JOSÉ DE OLIVEIRA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ALDIERIS BRAZ AMORIM CAPRINI | External Examiner * |
| PEDRO ERNESTO FAGUNDES | Internal Examiner * |
| SEBASTIÃO PIMENTEL FRANCO | Internal Examiner * |
| UEBER JOSÉ DE OLIVEIRA | Advisor * |
Summary: The research deals with the construction of the political figure Roberto Valadão
Almokdice, who had his trajectory forged in the context of the Civil-Military Regime in Brazil (1964-1985). In the 1960s, Valadão entered political discussions through the student movement, constituting himself as a leader in the Student House in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim-ES, and later became part of the National Democratic Movement (MDB). With the civil-military coup in 1964, many politicians lost their mandates, while others had to adjust to the new rules imposed by the military governments, so as not to lose their career in public life. The political formation of Valadão was forged combative, critical to the authoritarian sphere imposed to the country. This political figure had no
tradition or party-political positions prior to the year 1968, a year that joined the opposition party, throughout the 1970s and 1980s military governments invested in repressive apparatus, promoting censorship and imposing mechanisms for demobilization of oppositions. During this period, the bipartisan system, composed of the MDB and the party of support to the civil-military regime, the Arena, was in force in Brazil. In a scenario marked by censorship, the opposition competed unfairly with the Arena, which had much more space in the national media, especially with spaces in newspapers of great circulation, even because theyreceived more political and financial support from national and regional elites. Despite this, the opposition found
strategies to mobilize public opinion and build an electorate capable of ensuring the presence of opponents in government. It was in this scenario that Roberto Valadão was a political figure of great expression in the municipality of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim and in the State of Espírito Santo, especially between the 1970s and 1980s, when he participated intensely in the electoral disputes, standing out in the legislative action and as mayor of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, in addition to having adopted a discourse to defend democracy and the social interests of the popular masses. This speech extended after his participation in the Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), a party that since 2017 has retaken the MDB, in which he is affiliated until the present day, faithfully.
