The Dane revealed this March 30 the latest political culture surveywhich analyzes how Colombians feel and their attitude towards democracy and political parties.
The survey revealed that 52.2% of Colombians say they feel dissatisfied with the country’s democracy, especially in the last year.
This means that an increase of 5.3 percentage points of dissatisfaction, since in 2019 only 46.9% of people surveyed said they were not satisfied with the way democracy is performing in Colombia.
Juan Daniel Oviedo, director of Dane, said during the presentation of the survey that only 32.4% of the citizens surveyed were satisfied with Colombian democracy.
“This shows the deterioration of citizenship of legal age in the face of the exercise of democracy, between 2019 and 2021”sentenced Oviedo.
According to the survey, Bogotá is the city where this nonconformity is most reflected, as it grew 7.9 percentage points since 2019.
Oviedo stressed that the changes in political perception are reflected in how Colombians see the Congress of the Republic and the country’s justice system.
While in 2019 more than 70% of Colombians considered that the existence of Congress was important for a country to be democratic, in the last year the figure dropped to 58%.
On the other hand, Colombians continue to defend the idea of living in a democracy, since 76.6% say that it is important to live in a country where leaders can be freely elected.
The analysis ends by saying that 55.6% of those surveyed consider that Colombia is moderately democratic in relation to the population residing in the municipal capitals with 55.8% and 54.7%. In this sense, the populated and dispersed rural centers had a higher percentage of people who consider that Colombia is a democratic country with 30.3%.
What else did the survey reveal?
According to the Survey, at the national level, 44.3% of people in Colombia, by 2021, were located in the ideological position of center and 23.8% did not know or did not report on it.
In 2021, for the national total, 13.0% of the population aged 18 and over stated that they belonged to at least one group, organization or body. Of these, 4.6% belong to religious organizations.
Last year, 48.2% of people aged 18 and over stated that they did not have close networks of trust and support, that is, they do not visit anyone and no one visits them frequently, in addition that no person has helped or would try to help them get a job.
In relation to trust in institutions or actors, for the national total, 26.8% of the population aged 18 and over expresses a great deal of trust in the military forces.
By 2021, 53.0% of those surveyed stated that they did not want to have users of psychoactive substances as neighbors. 57.6% of the population aged 18 and over at the national level is not at all satisfied with the way in which the Peace Agreement signed between the Government and the FARC-EP in 2016 is being carried out.
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