Countries where voting is compulsory should be indicated.
Belgium has mandatory voting with some sanctions.
Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria apparently also, with little to no sanctions.
Damn I didn’t realize France was so low.
That’s so low for Lithuania compare to Latvia and Estonia. Lithuanians are so apolitical.
Wow, Belarus… seems like everyone wants to vote for Lukashenko!
In Spain the average participation is more than 70%.
That 66.2% is so low because we voted on April 2019 (participation of 75.75%), the political parties did not reach to an agreement to invest a new President and had to vote again in November 2019, so a lot of people stayed at home.
The same happened in December 2015 (73.20%) and June 2016 (69.84%).
Romania has the lowest turnout in the whole of EU. Turnout has been going down almost constantly since 1990. In the first elections in 1990, the turnout was 86%.
For most people, it feels like it doesn’t matter who is in power. You just get slightly different variants of neoliberalism.
I’m afraid this “it doesn’t matter who is in power” might lead to the far-right gaining ground, not necesarily because people are convinced by their ideology, but since they appear different.
(no, I did not vote in the last elections, either)
Beware apathy, it kills democracy.
Fake, hungary is a dictatorship as you know from CNN and other trustworthy news chanel.
Greek politics is typically quite polarized, it would seem that turnout decreased over the 00s and never recovered. Can any Greeks here suggest why this is the case?
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[Here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_recent_elections_by_country) for the list of elections.
When stakes are high, turnout is high.
Countries where voting is compulsory should be indicated.
Belgium has mandatory voting with some sanctions.
Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria apparently also, with little to no sanctions.
Damn I didn’t realize France was so low.
That’s so low for Lithuania compare to Latvia and Estonia. Lithuanians are so apolitical.
Wow, Belarus… seems like everyone wants to vote for Lukashenko!
In Spain the average participation is more than 70%.
That 66.2% is so low because we voted on April 2019 (participation of 75.75%), the political parties did not reach to an agreement to invest a new President and had to vote again in November 2019, so a lot of people stayed at home.
The same happened in December 2015 (73.20%) and June 2016 (69.84%).
Romania has the lowest turnout in the whole of EU. Turnout has been going down almost constantly since 1990. In the first elections in 1990, the turnout was 86%.
For most people, it feels like it doesn’t matter who is in power. You just get slightly different variants of neoliberalism.
I’m afraid this “it doesn’t matter who is in power” might lead to the far-right gaining ground, not necesarily because people are convinced by their ideology, but since they appear different.
(no, I did not vote in the last elections, either)
Beware apathy, it kills democracy.
Fake, hungary is a dictatorship as you know from CNN and other trustworthy news chanel.
Greek politics is typically quite polarized, it would seem that turnout decreased over the 00s and never recovered. Can any Greeks here suggest why this is the case?