Concept in Definition ABC

The concept of officialism has a use excluding in the political field to name the political party who governs and by character transitive to all its officials and representatives.

When talking about officialism, then, it is referring to the government, the grouping politics in which this is framed and the maximum exponents of it, from the president, through his ministers and secretaries of state as well as legislators, deputies and senators who belong to and respond politically to the political party in power and to all those leaders or professionals who support the authorities governmental.
Thus, for example, an economist, even if he does not hold any position, will be called this way if he defends or represents the ideas proposed by the ruling party.

The other side of the ruling party is opposition, which will be precisely embodied by those political leaders and political groups that do not agree with the ideas that the ruling party manifests and executes.

In democracies, which is where there is greater alternation of political proposals, it is common that today who is ruling party tomorrow ceased to be so because he lost the elections and then his opposition won them, which ends up becoming the ruling party of righ now.

It should be noted that normally the ruling party, when it becomes such, after winning the elections, is be a majority in the legislative body that is in charge of debating and promulgating laws in the countries democratic.

Now, always in that parliament there will be a representation of the opposing positions, embodied by the opposition that may oppose the laws promoted by the official party. When the majority is overwhelming, it seldom succeeds, whereas when the official party loses power, it usually Towards the end of their mandate, the voting tends to be more open and then the position does not always turn out to be the winner official.

It is important that we mention in this regard that many representatives of the official party tend to vote in favor of projects of law even if they disagree just because of the loyalty that they consider they must maintain with the party to which they belong.
Of course this is crazy and ends up messing up the democracy.