Public confidence in Austrian politics is low. In a recent survey, our country was below the OECD average (41.32 percent women, 44 percent men) with 24.31 percent confidence in politics among women and 27.40 percent among men. In comparison: Finland and Norway scored more than 60 percent.
The weakest result was achieved in Upper Austria with 20.5 percent and the best with 34.6 percent in the state of Salzburg. Age also had a strong influence on the results.
In Austria, it was the 30 to 49 year-olds who had the least confidence in politics at 21.91 percent. The over-50s recorded the highest figure at 29.12 percent, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development survey.
Finns (64.58 percent women, 58.32 percent men) and Norwegians (65.93 percent women, 61.64 percent men) were particularly confident in politics, where values in the different age groups hardly differed.
In Ireland, there was a large gap between 18-29 year-olds (20.97 percent) and over-50s (58.77 percent), while in Mexico 18-29 year-olds (59.81 percent) had the most confidence in the politics. People trusted less the ruling parties they didn’t vote for.
The OECD noted that the surveys were conducted in Austria in November 2021. At the time, there was both domestic political turbulence and a wave of corona infections, which could make the study results show a different value. A total of 50,000 people in 22 countries were surveyed.
Source: Krone
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