The Spaniards are fed up with the tension, they demand that politicians stop fighting, they demand that the parties reach consensus “on important issues that affect citizens” and they believe it is very or quite important that PP and PSOE reach agreements to renew the Judicial Branch. to reinforce the fight against gender violence or fair taxation, among other issues. The data from the first survey by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) on democratic habits, published this Thursday, reflects that 52% rate the general political situation in Spain as bad or very bad (plus 29.9% who see it as “bad or very bad”). regular”); that 89.8% of citizens want great political consensus and that 87.7% consider it essential to deflate public debate. The most critical of the state of Spanish democracy are those who say they vote for Vox and the PP. According to the survey, Basque citizens are the most satisfied with how democracy works in their territory, followed by those from Navarre and Madrid. Extremadurans and Ceuta residents believe that their lands are where it works the worst.
The CIS survey, released the day after the January barometer, has been prepared from 6,195 interviews, held between December 11 and 15, 2023, already with the new coalition Government of Pedro Sánchez and with the controversy over the amnesty law and the ultra demonstrations in front of the socialist headquarters at full capacity. In this scenario, they are asked how they see the political situation in Spain, to which 52% answer that they see it as “bad or very bad.” Here the differences are abysmal between those surveyed, depending on what they vote: for 94% of those from Vox and for 96.1% of those from the PP (whose leaders see Spain subjected to a coup d’état, with democracy in danger or towards a Bolivarian drift), the political situation is bad or very bad. Only 0.1% of these see it as very good.
Citizens see the political situation as very tense, which worries them, and they ask politicians to calm down. Thus, 88.9% estimate that there is a lot or quite a bit of tension, so 89.3% believe that “something should be done to reduce the tension.” The fact is that those surveyed see a solution to reduce so much political irritation and deflate the speeches: “That the parties reach State pacts on key matters for national politics”, which is very or quite important for 86.1%. . When asked if parties have the obligation to reach “consensus on important issues that affect citizens,” 89.8% agree that this should be the case.
The CIS asks what issues the two major parties, PP and PSOE, should agree on, although it asks about issues closer to the agenda of the coalition government and ignores other more current issues, such as the amnesty law. And citizens have clear preferences about what is very or quite important for the parties led by Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo to agree on. And they are these, in this order: a tax pact for fair taxation (93.3%), for the reform of the Workers’ Statute (92.1%) to improve the fight against gender violence (91.4 %), the management of European funds (90.5%)… In sixth position is the desire for socialists and popular parties to agree on the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Court.
In general terms, the majority believe that Spanish democracy works quite well (the majority rate it above 5 on a scale from 0 to 10). Thus, more people think that Spanish democracy works very poorly (16.9%) than those who believe that it works very well (3.3%). In general, 80.7% prefer democracy to any other system of government (among Santiago Abascal voters this percentage drops to 68.2%). There are also the majority who think that it worked better 10 years ago.
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