As we heard at the conference only 26% of the people know that the elections take place in June. 7% thinks these elections take place another year and 76% doesn’t know at all when the European elections will take place. Only 28% is apparently interested to vote. I know these are global numbers. In Belgium the awareness is much bigger but that is thanks to the fact that the European elections usually collide with one of our national elections.
Our elections are mandatory. The idea behind this is that people who have already showed up just can keep on voting. But this causes a problem, most people might vote without thinking twice if it their national vote would be the right vote for Europe. Because why would political parties invest in two campaigns?
I don’t know if there would be 27 campaigns, but I do know their will be at least two separate campaigns, because in Belgium it will be a national one, certainly more than European one. The European elections really are B-elections, because to most people those elections are not a priority.
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I guess if you hold it on the same day than you get the same results. I can hardly imagine a citizen voting for party X on the national elections and y in the EP elections.
Are you sure the percentages are correct? If 76% doesn’t know when the elections are, how can 26% know that they’re in June..?
I know that the numbers don’t make up, because 76+26+7 makes 109. But those are the numbers I wrote down, so I think they just have a large fault percentage. It al depends on the answer categories and the way they questioned the people.
But maybe I made a mistake in writing down the numbers, so if anyone wrote this down, could you help us out if it is a personal error, which also makes sense seeing that will put the total at 99% or that the EU made a terrible questionnaire and their numbers don’t make up?
at the same time it also depends on the voting system in a particular constituency (party list/ uninominal), which can make a difference between preferences expressed in national elections and in european ones.
The easiest thing would be do hold both elections on the same day but most people will vote twice on the same party so it would be a double victory for the winner of the elections