The crisis of the state of parties. «Yes now comes the wolf»

Abstract

In recent times, the disaffection with the political system has grown exponentially mainly due to unrest sparked by both the management of economic and institutional crisis as the reiteration of different episodes of public corruption. No doubt this has intensified the crisis of representation, as old as the representation itself, and exacerbated the critical role they play in today’s political parties. Not surprisingly, these dysfunctions observed bring not only because of varying expertise at managing the public interest but also more structural reasons such as the fact that the weak institutionalization of democratic participation mechanisms has led to the State parties exhibits an extremely opaque and operating oligarchic, in turn, is the source of all kinds of excesses, including corruption or «colonization» of most institutions. In short, the so pervasive power of the parties has undermined the rule of law and substantially limited the effective exercise of democracy to leave little room for citizens to decide on the progress of society. This situation calls for a greater balance of power between it and the political parties.