Partidos políticos, representação parlamentar e o golpe de 1964 na Assembleia de Minas

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the proceedings of parliamentarian representatives of the Minas Gerais State Assembly in the occasions of the 1964 coup d’Etat and of the dissolution of the political parties that took effect with the second Institutional Act of 1965. It is based on the acknowledgment of the scarcity of studies about the consequences of the coup over the state parliaments and the political parties at a regional level. The research is situated in the field of the political history and addresses specifically the 5th Legislature (1963-1967), whose chronology includes the most critical events to the consolidation of the military regime regarding its dominance over the nation’s political life, that is, besides the coup itself, the promulgation of the first Institutional Act, the election by the Congress of the general Castelo Branco to the presidency, the cassation of the former president Juscelino Kubitscheck’s political rights and mandate in the Senate and the promulgation of the second Institutional Act, that dissolved all the existing political parties and ended the political system that existed during the 4th Republic (1945-1964). It was intended to focus specifically at the proceedings of the three major party benches of the Minas Gerais Assembly (PTB, UDN and PSD) regarding the key events of that political crisis, emphasizing the moment of the coup itself (April 1964 – Chapter 1 and 2) and the dissolution of the parties (October 1965 – Chapter 3).