Quem tem medo do Cururu : Padrões de cultura política e decoro parlamentar na cassação de mandato do vereador Cláudio Insaurriaga, o Cururu, pela Câmara Municipal de Pelotas – RS.

Abstract

In the context of Political Science, the Theory of Political Culture has experienced an evolution in the senses of, increasingly, being used as a analytical tool of particularized realities. In this paper, orient the theoretical and analytical construction of a case study. Seeks to understand the political culture that supported the mechanism use of breach of parliamentary decorum to repeal the councilman Cláudio Insaurriaga, the "Cururu", for the members of the Pelota's City Council (RS), in March 2008, relating it to improve the local democratic system. The event calls attention for the nacional notoriety that the revoked councilman reached, for the act that triggered the process, besides being the first case of cassation of parliamentarian at the legislative local. Starting from the assumption that the action of the legislative pelotense elite depended of political-cultural constraints, arising from of a political culture configured for the process of modernization, built it a element's grid of dual political culture, modern and traditional, to confront with the manifestations relative to the case, made at the pelotense's parliament, in the period of generator's fact and the definitive exit out of Cururu of that House. From a content analysis of recorded events, on the acts of sessions of the discriminated period, has traced the comportament profile of the councilman political Cururu and the reaction to his pairs towards the comportament, seeking to identify the political culture values preserved on his cassation. In the analysis made, was observed that Cururu had a political acting pattern lined by modern political culture references, denouncing a series of practices of the local legislative taken as cultural vices in brazilian politics. On the other hand, to the reactions of most parlamentarians to the Cururu's actions, was observed the predominance of traditional elements of political culture. Of all, concludes that the mechanism use of breach of parliamentary decorum in this case was not given in the perspective of quality improvement of democracy, under modern parameters, but in the sense of preserve traditional elements that represented privileges to the legislative local elite.