De partido transitorio a partido permanente: El Partido Por la Democracia más allá de los mitos

Abstract

This paper aims at going beyond the social representations about the Party For Democracy (PPD), which plead for the thesis of a new party, first born as an “instrumental party”, and which then “took on a life of its own”. By means of in depth interviews analysis as well as the results of a sociographic survey applied to the PPD national counselors in 2006, the author shows that PPD’s consolidation is guided by two logics of engagement, the “logic of epic struggle” and the “logic of opportunity”. This last one gets/starts to prevail gradually over the first, producing a political party with a leadership