O plebiscito de 1963 : atores políticos e articulações político-partidárias pelas páginas do Jornal Gazeta do Sul (1961-1963).

Abstract

The present study approaches the political and social context of the early 1960s, Which goes from the establishment of the parliamentary system how a form of government in Brazil until the realization of a plebiscite, in order to assess with the population on which government model should be adopted in the country, parliamentarism or presidentialism. In this sense, a history of how the parliamentary formula worked during the first phase of the João Goulart government (1961 and 1963) is presented. Followed an emphasis of the political actors and the political-partisan articulations that acted in the anticipation and the campaign of the plebiscite, is of favorable or opposite form. With this aim, the present paper analyzes the press of the time, in the case of the newspaper Gazeta do Sul, between August of 1961 and January of 1963, trying to emphasize its political positions and evidencing the "voices" that had more resonance in their publications. In this way, the present research comprises the newspaper in two ways: how a way of accessing the events of a time and as a "political actor" of influence in the media in which it circulated.