NewsEurope90% of Spaniards do not trust the parties and 78% "mistrust" Congress, according to the Eurobarometer

90% of Spaniards do not trust the parties and 78% “mistrust” Congress, according to the Eurobarometer

The image that the Spanish have of politics and politicians is disastrous. 90% of citizens “mistrust” political parties; 78% do not trust the Congress of Deputies and 73% do not trust the Government, according to the winter Eurobarometer for Spain released this morning, the day after the defeat of Vox’s motion of no confidence in the Government, with the nearly ninety-year-old Ramon Tamames as candidate. What Spaniards trust the most is health and medical personnel, who are the safest value for 87% of those surveyed (1,011 in Spain, of the 37,803 surveyed throughout the EU, in the months of January and February). . If the disaffection towards politics in Spain is rampant, the detachment towards the media is among the largest in Europe: 70% tend to distrust the press, while the vast majority see false news everywhere. Spanish mistrust is well above the European average towards all institutions.

The so-called Standard Eurobarometer is carried out annually at the request of the General Directorate of Communication of the European Commission, but the field work this year has been done by the company Kantar Public, between January 12 and February 6, with inflation at maximums, the war in Ukraine without brake and in full swing of the controversy for the reductions of sentences as a consequence of the law of only yes is yes. The survey is based on knowing the confidence in the institutions, and on knowing the state of mind of Europeans with respect to the war that is taking place on European soil and the economic and military support of the Union. 82% are in favor of providing more financial support to Ukraine.

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What it shows in the Spanish case is the increase in mistrust in the institutions that represent the executive and legislative powers, and greater confidence in judges, mayors and in the European Union. Thus, the institutions that generate the greatest degree of distrust for Spaniards are, in this order: political parties (only 7% of Spaniards trust them, compared to 90% who do not), the Congress of Deputies (which gives security at 16%, compared to 78% who are uneasy) and the Government of Spain (of the three, the one that generates the most confidence: 24% trust it compared to 73% who do not). In fact, they don’t trust any of the institutions they question, but at least they “project more trust,” as the study authors write.

The other great pole of disaffection is the press, which 70% mistrust, although at least 68% agree that “the information on political affairs obtained from social networks is not reliable.” Europeans also distrust the majority, although to a lesser extent than Spaniards (58% of European citizens who distrust compared to 38% who trust). What happens to those surveyed, or to the majority, is that they “often” find news “that distorts reality and is even false”, hoaxes that are easy to identify for 55% (but not for the majority). 41%). Fake news is “a problem” for Spain for 83% and even 86% say that it poses a risk to democracy.

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