ABSTRACT
The government cycle that began in 2002 with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's election was testing the limits of the statal domination and the democracy itself in Brazil. Lula cycle, that has ended up, coincides with profound social and economic changes and, of course, with transformations in capitalist power. Thus, what the authors saw in the Brazilian society was the emergence of what they could call 'presidentialist coalition'. This type of presidentialism had the most prominent aspects during the governments of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, the latter ruling from 2010 to 2016, until the parliamentary coup. The administration, between 2003 to 2016, and mainly after 2010, of this form of political regime has given place to what the authors call dystonia of domination. The end of Lula and Dilma Rousseff's cycle of government involved practically all the powers of the state, from violence outside and within institutions.
