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This Sunday, April 30, it will be decided in Paraguay who will replace Mario Abdo Benítez. In these elections in which, as always, the traditional groups face each other, the Colorado Party and the Liberal Party, the young break in, whose large number of voters could define the current technical tiebreaker predicted by the polls. However, in the last 2018 elections, young people were the ones who attended the polls the least. What is this phenomenon due to?
Paraguay is preparing to choose on April 30 who will succeed Mario Abdo Benítez. In the South American country, young people represent 30% of the electoral roll, however, they are the segment of the population that least participates in the elections.
“Dear compatriots, this April 30 Paraguay participates and expresses its legitimate will. (…) let me do special called of attention to the Stripe that less participate, to our youths”declared César Rosell, minister of the Superior Court of Electoral Justice of Paraguay, aware that the participation of young people will be important in the contest between the Colorado Party and the Liberal Party.
An educational system marked by the dictatorship
For Eduardo Tamayo Belda, a researcher at the Autonomous University of Madrid and a specialist in the contemporary political history of Paraguay, there are five reasons that explain young people’s lack of interest in democratic participation.
“He first of they is he system educational authoritarian of Paraguayan. Were 35 years of dictatorship and that late a lot in be removed of the system educational. As says he political scientist Marcelo laqui, the system educational Paraguayan tea teaches to respect the authority, No to choose it. This does that the youth, in good part, No this interested in the policy electoral. No they understand he concept of choice as something own of the responsibility citizen”, explains the analyst.
“Is TRUE that, with he passed of the time, to true age, come in in he system patronage and labor, familiar, either professionally need vote for that he political resolve the issues that the life you goes presenting. AND is so when vote for return he favor to that political”, says Tamayo Belda.
Importance of migrations
Misinformation on social networks, the feeling that all politicians are the same and not having to choose a party in this polarized society are three other reasons why many young people do not go to the polls.
According to Eduardo Tamayo, “the fifth reason is a element that this very related with the situation abroad and the importance of the migrations in the society globalized. AND is that he young Paraguayan, it that wants is to go out of the country, emigrate to a place with opportunities professionals, with toppings suitable of services basic”.
“This is something that come viable in this world so globalized. Is a world that know perfectly to through of Internet and of the networks social. It come each day and on have many relatives and friends emigrants in the that lean on for give that jump”, emphasizes the historian.
This year voting will be compulsory for Paraguayans, and whoever does not do so will receive a fine of 98,000 guaraníes, about 12 euros.
