Colombians, those who most distrust their government in the OECD

Colombia is the country of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in which its citizens most distrust their government, according to a new public transparency report published this Wednesday by the institution.

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In the study method, 50,000 citizens of a group of member countries were surveyed about their trust in their governments and 66.7% of Colombians expressed distrust of the Government of Casa de Nariño. This figure for Colombia is higher than the average of 41.4% in the countries of the block of good practices.

Other countries, such as Latvia (62.3%) and France (53%) also exceed the collective average.

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Secondly, 60.8% of Colombians consider that an official would probably accept money from an individual or a company in exchange for a political favor. This percentage rises to 68.9% in Mexicans. Both Latin American countries are above the organizational average located at 35.7%.

It is worth noting that most of the countries were surveyed in the period from November 2021 to February 2022, with Finland and Norway surveyed in 2020 and Portugal and the UK surveyed in March 2022.

The OECD notes, in any case, that these weak levels of trust that this work suggests are possible precisely because “citizens of democratic systems, unlike autocratic systems, are free to show their lack of trust by the government”, according to what was highlighted by the EFE agency.

The bloc countries that participated in the study were Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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