Entre as bases e o governo: trajetória política de deputados estaduais da Região dos Inhamuns

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to reconstruct the political trajectory of four state representatives who have the region of the Inhamuns as main informal electoral circumscription and the city of Tauá as main electoral college. We analyzed the political career of Julio Rêgo Gonçalves and Antonio Gomes da Silva Câmara in the period in which they were hegemonic, from 1975 to 1994, and Domingos Gomes de Aguiar Filho and Idemar Loyola Citó, from 1995 to 2010. The research was aimed at understanding how these members are recruited, how they win and keep local power in Tauá, how they relate to their electoral base and establish relations with congressmen, governors, mayors and councilors, what are their strategies for winning votes and who are their canvassers in the cities. The time frame of this research is four decades. To achieve this study, formal and informal interviews were conducted with qualified political actors as well as researches in local newspapers, institutions such as IBGE, TRE-CE and IPECE, and also literature searches.