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Those who have greater difficulty are more "dissatisfied with democracy"
People with greater economic needs and greater difficulty paying bills have less confidence in institutions, such as parties or government, which leads economist Susana Peralta to warn that this distrust is "fertile ground" for anti-democratic projects.
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The analysis is part of the report 'Portugal, Balanço Social 2023', based on a question from the Eurobarometer, and which shows that 97% of people with financial difficulties do not trust political parties, 82.5% do not trust the Justice system and 66% do not trust the Government or city councils.
"People who live in a more comfortable financial situation declare greater satisfaction with democracy than those who almost always have difficulty paying their bills", the report reads.
It states that satisfaction with democracy is lower at national level than at European level, pointing out that "more than one in two individuals who have difficulties express dissatisfaction with democracy in Portugal".
Speaking to the Lusa agency, economist and researcher Susana Peralta, one of the authors of the report, stressed that it is the people who report difficulty paying their bills who have the least trust in institutions.
"I think what happens is that people feel deprived and even, in a way, excluded, in the sense that they observe around them people who have more comfortable ways of living and [this gives] the perception that the system somehow does not benefit them as much as they understood they deserved and as much as they see that the system benefits their fellow citizens", pointed out the professor from Nova School of Business & Economics.
For Susana Peralta, the high numbers of mistrust should make society and the institutions themselves question themselves, pointing out that they are "illustrative of a certain fertile ground for projects that question the foundations of the system".
"These people, who feel somehow excluded from the institutional map that we have created to manage our society, may adhere to projects that question the foundations of these institutions and that is problematic", she warned.
In this regard, she recalled the Dutch political scientist Cas Mudde, a specialist in projects on the populist far right, who says that "the far right brings easy solutions to difficult problems".
"This disconnection of the most vulnerable people from the institutions is a risk for us in a democracy", she stressed.
Read also: Poverty risk rose in 2023 and affected over 60,000 people (Portuguese version)
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