ISLAMABAD: Dominant majority of Pakistani youth believed that democracy is the best system for Pakistani, said a survey conducted by the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT).
84.9% of the respondents agree that democracy, despite its weaknesses, is the best system for our country, while 95.9% of the young individuals surveyed believe that public problems can never be effectively solved without strong local governments, said the survey.
48.7% of youth believe that inflation is the greatest challenge faced by the country, followed by unemployment (45.6%) and the poor quality of education across educational institutions in the country (36.3%).
Around 76.7 percent of youth in the country believed that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) will be helpful in organizing free, fair, and credible elections. Whereas 22.1 percent of youth believed that the gadgets would not be helpful for the purpose, according to the survey conducted among the 422 members and alternates of PILDAT’s Youth Parliament Pakistan spread over 232 (85.3 %) of total 272 National Assembly Constituencies in addition to Azad Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, and Overseas Pakistanis from April 07 to April 12, 2022.
Reasons for low Youth Voter Turnout, Poor Performance of Politicians tops as key reason as 42.3% of youth respondents believe that the poor performance of politicians is the key reason for abysmally low youth voter turnout, followed by the low level of trust in Political Parties (42%) and the poor past performance of Election Commission (37.5%).”
What makes youth support a political party: 37.9% of the respondents are motivated to support a political party due to its past performance, 36.5% base their support on the party’s election manifesto while 17.5% are motivated by the charismatic head of the party.”
A large majority supports the revival of Students’ Unions across Pakistan as a portion (81.1%) of the young respondents agree over students’ unions being allowed once again, in all public and private educational institutes of Pakistan while 16.9% are in disagreement over their revival.
Youth View on Pakistan government stance regarding Russian invasion of Ukraine as the recent Russia-Ukraine Resolution passed by the UN General Assembly, 70.1% of the young respondents supported the Pakistani government’s decision to abstain from voting on the resolution. 20.6% supported the idea of voting in favor of the resolution while 5.5% favored voting against it.
