A cláusula democrática do Mercosul

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the democratic clause of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUL) and its application in the specific case of the Republic of Paraguay, having allegedly broken the democratic order, it was suspended in June 2012 of the block. To achieve this objective, this monograph, analyzes, briefly, MERCOSUL, and the Ushuaia Protocol which was signed in 1998, it demonstrates the concern of the signatory countries to the maintenance of the democratic order. Although not defining objectively democracy, it provides here an opportunity to reflect about democratic concepts emanating from important theoretical references, which makes it easier to search for understanding on this important political process, in a way that, it occupied many publications of the Latin American’s press and, starting from that, challenges the researchers of several fields of social knowledge. It is, therefore, a study of case for the issue raised here: the suspension of Paraguay as a full member of MERCOSUL, after its former president Fernando Lugo, behind a political trial, underwent a process of impeachment and was deposed, giving rise to some current policies to be able to consider the fact as a breach of democratic normality, which, by clause implies in the suspension of the rights to effectively participate of the block.