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Colombo, March 18 (Daily Mirror) - A recent survey conducted by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) has unearthed that public trust in parliament and political parties has reached an all time low, with parliament showing 22 percent public trust and political parties showing 19 percent trust.
The survey, titled ‘Survey on Democracy and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka,’ involved 1,350 participants across 25 districts in January, shedding light on declining trust in democratic institutions and shifting attitudes toward authoritarianism.
According to the findings, Army and Courts enjoy the status of the most trusted institution in the country while the police enjoy relatively less public trust compared to the Army and Courts.
However, public trust in legislative institutions and the entities that participate in producing legislation — political parties — is not only less compared to the Army and Courts, but also have experienced a slump over the past decade. In 2011, 63% of Sri Lankans trusted the parliament to perform its role, but it has fallen to 22% in 2024.
Among the institutions tested in this survey series, people extended the least level of trust toward political parties. The public trust in political parties has fallen from 56% in 2011 to 19% in 2024.
Meanwhile, approximately 1 in 10 Sri Lankans expressed a preference for authoritarian rule, marking a significant increase in the trend since 2018.
Despite the majority favoring democratic governance, the survey highlighted a worrying sentiment that "In certain situations, a dictatorial government can be preferable to a democratic one."
The CPA, a prominent policy think-tank based in Colombo, emphasized that the spike in support for authoritarianism coincided with the political upheaval during the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government in 2018.
ravin Monday, 18 March 2024 09:11 AM
Natural . Wondering how far the public trust is on certain politicos . It has become well known fact that although they promised they going to serve us -public end of the period all what we see is they have served them selves only.
joshua Monday, 18 March 2024 09:21 AM
Who will have trust in that parliament, when it is infested with ali baba and his thieves, 10%, people who created hardships to the farmers and people, people against whom no action is taken despite court rulings, fellows who are uneducated and talking bullshit at rallies and Parliament etc etc. It is high time people go together and chased these lots from that parliament for ever.
Gayan Monday, 18 March 2024 12:06 PM
CPA has close relationship with RW. This survey meant to discourage the public from voting?
Ranjith Monday, 18 March 2024 12:32 PM
That's reason we want an election to trust in politicians and parliament, first Presidential elections followed by Parliament elections.
Jayantha Monday, 18 March 2024 02:22 PM
Same with Courts and CB. Unless courts try to solve cases quickly without wasting time, the trust will go down further and it will be irreversible. CB should be having the worst rating, probably less than 5 if a survey is done. Nothing is done by cb for decades to make it easier to recieve remitances. Faith in parliament has gone down significantly due to weak leadership in both sjb and npp. Non of them identify exact problems and do anything about them. So losing faith.
Jollyson Monday, 18 March 2024 02:52 PM
Well all these surveys are only a comfort for a day's joke. End of the day the same lot will rule and earn. No change. Keep paying high taxes and high cost of living for others robbing the country.
Shera Monday, 18 March 2024 03:02 PM
How can you lose something you never had?
Hadam Monday, 18 March 2024 03:04 PM
I wonder which idiots are included in that 22 percent who still trust our political system.
melville perera Monday, 18 March 2024 03:15 PM
just returned from a holiday tour of the entire country gathering public opinion on the public political trust of the current bunch of circus performeRS now turning parliament into aN ELDERS'HOMEr ANDsshamelessly joining the latest " ahindas alliances" which they say resembles the game of musical chairs where they will all be unseated (the chairs will be removed before theycould sit) at the appropriate time and their performance hardly needs any surveying. Not only will they be unseated they will be made to flee the country!!!
Sharley Monday, 18 March 2024 03:37 PM
People kept trust with rural south man with humble beginning as their savior but once he acquired the power he along his family plundered whole nation without bounds, so how people keep faith with current politicians
Sirithekku Palangedara Monday, 18 March 2024 03:53 PM
It may be a mistake! SL must be the country with most trustworthy and honest politicians with no corruption. This may be a propaganda against SL!
Disgusted citizens Monday, 18 March 2024 04:43 PM
When people like ratharan is the head of COPE what do you expect?
Is this survey to prod voters to select a dictator? Monday, 18 March 2024 04:52 PM
What do we do now? Hand over the power to a confirmed dictator and wait for our fate? What is the guarantee that he will not swindle and wipe the treasury clean of all foreign currency reserve that Ranil collected during this short period? We can do one thing. Keep voting and trust, that some day the right person will be in power. We have seen greedy dictators and family.
ANNECUNT Monday, 18 March 2024 06:56 PM
Drug addicts are BETTER THAN a parlimentarians
UMASALI Monday, 18 March 2024 07:00 PM
IF BAND WHEN NAMAL BECOMES THE PRESIDENT .IT WILL BE THE END OF SRI-LANKA
Sambo Monday, 18 March 2024 07:12 PM
This parliament is for the politician's and their henchman. They come, they fight and argue and leave. What use it for the public. Better close the parliament and can save a lot of money
Patcitz Monday, 18 March 2024 07:32 PM
Mjority of the people support Rajapaksas to protect the country from Indian invasion. Right now, the US hegemony runs the nation with forcible COMMAND to which Ranil is a slave.
Citizen Monday, 18 March 2024 07:44 PM
Wow. I thought public would have a very pleasant feeling about the parliament.
SSZ KHAN Monday, 18 March 2024 07:55 PM
It is the same almost all over the world except a few countries where there is zero tolerance for corruption and bribery. Even in the USA and UK, people have very low opinion about their elected members. It is time for all patriotic people of Sri Lanka to get together and formulate a system wherein there is zero tolerance for corruption bribery family rule and religious extremism. In the USA all policies are decided by the zionist lobby and the president has no power but to listen to them. In Sri Lanka extremist Budhist monks dictate the terms and the governments act according to the whims of the monks. THIS HAS TO CHANGE
Eper Monday, 18 March 2024 07:57 PM
All what this parliament can do is to take loans and default later.75 years of bluffing.Even our judiciary:finances :development are in shambles and our parliamentarians are only interested in loans and the international lenders are aware that we will default all loans
Kapati Horu Tuesday, 19 March 2024 09:51 AM
So against the foreign funded NGO’s who are good for nothing
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