🇵🇹 Portugal's politics and elections 4.0 (Madeira snap regional election: 26 May 2024)

[Battista Minola 1616]

some of these are extremely concerning.

Some of the numbers are actually an improvement compared with a similar poll made 10 years ago, in 2014, and even another one made 20 years ago. For example, in 2014, just 41% rated the changes in society after 1974 as more positive than negative, and it's now at 56%; In 2014, just 25% were satisfied with democracy, and it's now at 57%.

More info here.

I assume this is influenced by Portugal being in an obviously worse state in 2014, when the sovereign debt crisis was the present and not the past. I am not sure if this fact is relieving or even more concerning, but I like to be an optimist.

[Battista Minola 1616]

As a fellow Southern European, all I can say is that Ventura claiming Turks are not known for being the most hard-working people in the world is a bit of a pot calling the kettle black moment.

[Battista Minola 1616]

Oh right today they vote (again) in Madeira. I am vaguely surprised turnout is keeping up with last time and people aren't getting tired. Did anyone try and make the election coincide with the European one?