PARLIAMENTARY FRONTS AND GOVERNANCE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVANGELICAL CAUCUS IN THE FEDERAL CHAMBER IN THE GOVERNMENTS OF DILMA, TEMER AND BOLSONARO
Evangelical Parliamentary Front; evangelical caucus; federal chamber; neoconservatism; institutional activism; coalition presidentialism.
This paper seeks to analyze the supra-party phenomenon carried out by the parliamentary fronts, with a focus above all on the evangelical caucus and its role in the National Congress on government and opposing government agendas. In the last years, the thematic fronts have gained more importance and strength on the national political scene. On the other hand, they brought with them an overwhelming neoconservative wave. The evangelical parliamentary front, for example, has changed its traditional mode of action, such as caring preferentially for moral or religious agendas, and intensifying its participation in executive discussions, in addition to serving as a basis for support in an eventual presidential coalition. Seeking to understand which direction contemporary politics is taking, as well as following its movements and its new characteristics, is what this work proposes. It also proposes to investigate whether the evangelical caucus remained ideologically faithful to its religious bases when it went through “left” and “right” governments.