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Young people in Slovenia lagging behind in projected participation in European elections

by AI | 14.May 2024 | Europe in brief AI

June European elections are expected to be attended by just over half of the young Slovenians, a Eurobarometer survey showed. Slovenia is thus at the tail end of the member states in terms of predicted youth participation.

Ballot box at the elections in Slovenia. Photo Nebojša Tejić/STA

Brussels – Just over half of young Slovenians intend to participate in the upcoming European elections, placing them in the bottom half among their European peers, according to Eurobarometer survey results on youth and democracy. The survey otherwise predicts a 64-percent participation rate of young people from 27 countries in the European Parliament elections.

According to the Eurobarometer survey, 53 percent of Slovenian respondents aged up to 30 intend to participate in the European Parliament elections.

The same participation rate is also predicted by young Cypriots, while only peers in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, and Malta predict lower rates. At the very bottom are young people from Luxembourg with 41 percent.

At the top of the scale in terms of predicted electoral participation are young people in Romania with 78 percent, closely followed by their Portuguese peers.

A recent survey by the public opinion research company Valicon has shown that turnout in Slovenia on June 9th will be higher than in 2019, when it was just under 29 percent. Among the reasons for this is also the participation of the youngest voters, representatives of the so-called Generation Z, who participate in elections to a greater extent than their predecessors. Definitely 28 percent of respondents born between 1996 and 2006 will attend the elections. (May 13)