Parliament and public opinion

Abstract

In modern society, PODER is divided and divided into three stop-ups. Economic Power; State Power and the Power of the Collective Media. This is not the classical division that intuited Montesquieu as a mechanism to protect freedom, but it is closer to the omni-comprehensive analysis of modern society. To our sadness, what must be the fourth power, that is, civil society, is still mediated and does not have effective mechanisms of participation and direct influence in the making of transcendental decisions.

We place the issue of relations between public opinion and Parliament within the broader framework of a Democratic State of Law, which puts special attention to the participation of citizens as an actor and subject of political life. The extent to which the press contributes to this objective is part of the analysis of relations between the press and parliament. From this perspective we are interested in highlighting the nature of this relationship, which seems eternally conflicted between Press and Parliament and how these relations influence the formation of public opinion which is almost tantamount to saying of the popular will (the original source in which the last and only truly sovereign and absolute power is deposited).