The article aims to show how the money used in the municipal elections in the Pernambuco Outback acts as a deterritorializor of previously existing social relations, albeit in a few cases only. It is a sign of commercializing the electoral process which encompasses the long-term processes involving the pledges, promises and blocks of debt and credit, both those of voters and candidates. But money in its pure form may be demonetarized through the relations of debt and credit themselves within the circulation of voting-resources by favour-resources. On the other hand, goods and services which only indirectly involve money may become monetarized, depending on the form in which they are applied.
Elections; Politics; Pernambuco; Sertão (Outback)