O eleitorado da cidade da Beira e à oposição: um estudo sócio-histórico do voto aos partidos da oposição RENAMO e MDM Das Eleições Locais de 2003 às Eleições Locais de 2013

Abstract

With the main objective of analyzing the factors that explain the behavior and tendencies of voting for opposition parties and candidates in the Municipality of Beira, the present study was limited to a socio-historical approach. For this analysis, the electoral period in which opposition parties and candidates have been leading the Beira municipality, from 2003 to 2013 was taken into account. The problem that arises is that, unlike the other municipalities where the incumbent party (FRELIMO) lost the elections to the opposition and later managed to reverse the scenario (through different mechanisms), in the Municipality of Beira, the possibilities seem to become negligible of reversal of the situation, because from election to election the choice of opposition parties and candidates has been strengthened with an increasingly accentuated difference. The data that make up this analysis were collected from a methodological triangulation, consisting of semi-structured interviews, complemented by documentary and bibliographic research. Through the collected data, the present work showed that the electoral behavior of the citizens of Beira is influenced on the one hand by socio-historical factors located in the process of State construction, and on the other hand, by the current model of State construction (exclusivist ; arrogant; clientelist and patrimonial) adopted by FRELIMO