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The Other Coups: The 2018 Election, Between Legacy and Legitimacy

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The theoretical and methodological perspective was the materialism historical dialectic with Granscian categories, with concepts of the historical hegemonic block, counter hegemonic block, organicity, domination. The main sources of data used are primary and secondary, which include data collected by the author based on the technique of participant observation of the qualitative method. This social scientific essay analyzes political process of the others parliamentary coup carried out in Paraguay. These socials events were done to promote the Constitutional Amendment for presidential re-election. However, they were aborted by the citizen pressure that culminated in the March 2017 crisis with the death of Rodrigo Quintana, a young leader of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party - PLRA. This sad social event was followed by a series of parliamentary blows in 2018 during the electoral campaign being defined only after the elections of 2018. In this context, the work aims to shed light on the events that preceded the results of the 2018 elections. For this purpose, it is analyzed the different blows that were given in different powers of the State preparing the continuity of the same regime, in the years 2017 and 2018. The conclusion is that a cris of organization within the hegemonic block, first of all. Then, it was a crisis of domination between the hegemonic block and the counter hegemonic block with the final polarization of the 2018 election.

DOI 10.11648/j.ss.20190804.17
Published in Social Sciences (Volume 8, Issue 4, August 2019)
Page(s) 190-197
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Parliamentary Coup, Radical Democracy, Historical Hegemonic Block, Counter Hegemonic Block, Organicity, Hegemony, Domination.

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