Photo: Tanjug/Dimitrije GollAlmost 60 percent of young people believe that Serbia needs a strong leader, which is the highest result in the last six years. On the other hand, the percentage of young people who answer "no" is the lowest so far
The umbrella organization of the youth of Serbia (KOMS) presented its own the seventh alternative report on the position and needs of young people in Serbia. In the chapter The value of youth there is a graph showing that 60 percent of young people believe that Serbia needs a strong, authoritarian leader.
This is the highest result in the last six years. However, it does not deviate drastically from the results measured in previous editions of the Alternative Report. On the other hand, the percentage of young people who answered "no" is the lowest so far - 26,4 percent, while 13,5 percent answered "I don't know."
The research also shows that young men support democracy more than young women, who are more undecided on this issue.
Young people from Belgrade support democracy more than young people from the region.
When it comes to support for a "strong leader," it declines with age. Young people from Belgrade and Vojvodina differ from the rest of Serbia on this issue as well, because significantly fewer of them believe that the country needs a strong leader.
Why young people want a "strong leader"
Many politicians were not surprised by these statistics. Biljani Đorđević, MP We are not drowning Belgrade, these data speak of confusion among young people about what democracy is or can be compared to the systems in which they live.
"The dissatisfaction they have with the education system, the value system and the state of the environment cannot be solved by a strong leader, but rather with more real democracy and citizen participation," Đorđević explains for Today.
Zoran Lutovac, leader of the DS, explains that the results are the result of at least two facts.
"One is that we have a traditionally authoritarian political culture, and the other is that at the moment in which we live, exactly such a model of political culture is being promoted." A culture of machismo and strength in general is promoted instead of a culture of dialogue, a culture of overpowering instead of a culture of understanding. A cultural matrix is spreading in which someone needs to overcome and dominate instead of agreeing with him or talking and making a compromise," concludes Lutovac for Danas.
Twenty-five percent want a monarchy
The research also asked a question related to the political system of Serbia - Should Serbia be a monarchy? Approximately 25 percent of young people answered in the affirmative, which is about five percent more than last year.
In this question, there is a statistically significant difference when it comes to the sex, age and region of the respondents. Young men support the monarchy more (31,1 percent) than young women (18,2 percent). The greatest opposition to the monarchy (47,7 percent) is expressed by young people aged 25 to 30, while young people aged 15 to 19 show the least opposition (37,5 percent). Young people from Western and Central Serbia support the monarchy significantly more than the average (37 percent).
KOMS is an alliance of youth associations founded on March 12, 2011. Currently, its membership includes 111 organizations (youth and youth associations). It represents the highest independent representative body of young people in Serbia, whose mission is to develop national youth policy, representing the interests of young people, developing partnership relations with institutions, intersectoral and international cooperation, as well as encouraging active participation of young people and the organizational development of its members.
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