La confianza en los representantes como soporte de la representación: el caso Martín Sabbatella

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to explain Martín Sabbatella’s victory in Morón Mayor’s elections in September 2003, in relation to the debate about new ways of political representation. Specifically, the evidence of changes in the parties’ organizative structures, in the labor sphere and, also, in political communication, turns necessary to abandon the conception of political representation as a structural homology between social and political actors, in order to obtain a better understanding about the centrality of political personalization and citizen trust in leaderships and representatives. From this view, the reasons for the approval of his local administration, the causes of that maintained his intention of vote and the ticket splitting phenomena, or, precisely, the consequences of simultaneous elections in the electoral arrangement in the local level are analyzed. Sabbatella’s success could be understood as a piece of evidence on the importance of the role of leaderships in the (re)construction of political parties and, more generically, in the strengthening of the political activity as a mechanism of collective and democratic coordination in the social decision making process.