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      As eleições legislativas de 2018. Acerca da sobrevivência da democracia em São Tomé e Príncipe Translated title: The 2018 legislative elections. About the survival of democracy in São Tomé and Príncipe

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          Resumo Este texto procura descrever e analisar o devir histórico e as contingências do sistema democrático em São Tomé e Príncipe. Em particular, pretende realçar o significado político das eleições de 7 de outubro de 2018, que se revelaram um marco da democracia no arquipélago. Este texto procura recensear pontos de reflexão sobre a sobrevivência da democracia num contexto micro-insular em África. Ao invés de equacionar a viabilidade da democracia representativa à luz de uma presumida idiossincrasia africana, avalia-se a sintonia do apriorismo da superioridade da democracia com as escolhas dos são-tomenses, frequentemente menos baseadas em princípios políticos do que, por exemplo, na adesão a homens fortes e a projetos salvíficos, tal um dos dados da cultura política prevalecente nas ilhas.

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          Abstract This text seeks to describe and analyze the historical development and contingencies of the democratic system in São Tomé and Príncipe. In particular, it intends to highlight the political significance of the October 7, 2018 elections, which proved to be a hallmark of democracy in the archipelago. This text aims to identify points of reflection on the survival of democracy in a micro-island context in Africa. Rather than equating the viability of representative democracy in the light of a presumed African idiosyncrasy, it assesses the superiority of democracy in the face of São Tomé’s choices, often less based on political principles, than, for example, on the adherence to big men or salvific projects, as one of the data of the prevailing political culture in the islands.

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                cea
                Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
                Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
                Centro de Estudos Internacionais do ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, , Portugal )
                1645-3794
                December 2019
                : 38
                : 93-122
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                [1] orgnameUniversidade de Lisboa orgdiv1Centro de História Portugal anascimento2000@ 123456gmail.com
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                S1645-37942019000200093 S1645-3794(19)00003800093
                bee497aa-cae4-4770-8171-9939b22337b6

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 02 October 2019
                : 30 June 2019
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                eleições,autoritarismo,democracia,São Tomé e Príncipe,elections,authoritarianism,democracy,São Tomé and Príncipe

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