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More than half of the Portuguese do not agree with the current electoral system and would like to change it to elect their deputy to the Assembly of the Republic, reveals a Eurosondage study for SEDES that Lusa had access to.
Asked about the proportional electoral system, with district districts, 60.3% of those surveyed answered that they do not agree, 22.5% agreed and 17.2% said they had doubts or did not know / wanted to answer .
The survey prepared for SEDES – Association for Economic and Social Development reveals that almost two thirds of those interviewed, 65.2%, would like to be able to elect their deputy through a majority system, compared to 20%. On the possibility of electing the deputy, 14.8% said they have doubts, do not know / want to answer.
When asked about “the best system to elect the Assembly of the Republic”, 47.2% said that they prefer a “mixed system”, in which part of the deputies are elected in a majority system and another part in a proportional system, to defend the parties with fewer voters.
Only 16.9% of those surveyed said that they prefer the current system, 25% prefer a majority system and 10.2% have doubts, do not know / want to answer.
The Eurosondage study was carried out between the 18th and 20th of this month through 1,033 telephone interviews validated for landlines and mobiles and has a maximum error of 3.05% for a degree of probability of 95%.
SEDES, currently chaired by the socialist doctor Álvaro Beleza, is one of the oldest associations in the country, having celebrated its 50th anniversary in November.
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