By Marcos Pérez Talia.
The role played by political parties in contemporary democracies is fundamental. They are key players because they fulfill various tasks that, as a whole, serve to make the political system operative. The issue is that some of their multiple functions may, in some cases, not be adequately fulfilled, which ends up affecting democratic health. In this article I want to emphasize party indiscipline, focusing on what happened with some opposition parliamentarians who recently began their work. I seek to show that indiscipline is synonymous with a low level of partisan institutionalization, which ends up affecting the quality of democracy.