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SAR and CURS opinion poll: Romania is not associated and not represented
Romania continues to be one of the countries less associated and representative, according to an opinion poll made in March by the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) and CURS, presented on Tuesday by SAR president, Alina Mungiu Pippidi at a press conference.
“Unfortunately, we are still in not associated Romania, we continue to see that association members in Bucharest, the richest and most associative city in the country, represent just 4% of people , who somehow are part of an association, which could be even a chess club. If you want to know figures in the rest of Europe, they are over 50% in Germany and France and about 70% in Belgium. Practically, there, every person is member of an association and is trying to solve a small problem together with other people which obviously grows exponentially the force of the respective society,” Pippidi said.
According to the poll, 3% of respondents said they were part of a union and only 8% have ever participated in a protest in the last five years.
“Romania is not only not associated it is also not represented. Party sympathizers who say they like a party are 18% in Bucharest, 81% do not like any party while party members are just 2% and again we are talking about the most politically active city,” the SAR president showed.
The document mentions that 84% of people participating in the poll consider that, after the latest elections, corruption has either grown or stagnated, 22% said they bribed officers of a town hall in Bucharest, 57% consider that left or right wing orientation does not matter, while 46% will not vote in the local elections.
“We have at last indications that corruption is dropping, which is a first after years on end. We must understand that when corruption was almost 100%, that is bribery was given in all 100 public contracts attributed. We have to fight to make it a minority. We need some help from the government or Parliament in order to succeed,” Mungiu-Pippidi said.
The poll has a sample of 1,090 respondents aged over 18, was probabilistic, with random selection of election polling stations.