Arti Gercek reports that 13 million of the 62.4 million voters who will vote in the 14 May elections are young voters. Six million of this number are first-time voters. According to a recent poll, 89 percent of young people said they would “definitely vote” in the upcoming election, which analysts say is a critical threshold for Turkey’s future.
In their Youth Agenda Report February survey, the Turkey Report company asked young people between the ages of 18 and 30 whether they would go to the polls in the 2023 elections. While 89 percent stated that they would definitely vote, only 2 percent stated that they would not. Nine percent were undecided about going to the polls.
In the survey, nine percent of the undecided young voters were also asked which was the most significant cause of their indecisiveness. The majority, 56% of the respondents, said, “There is no political party/leader I support.” This can be interpreted as “the majority of undecided voters think that there is no party or leader that represents them.”
15 percent of the undecided youth answered that they “don’t care about the elections.” Commenting on this response, the Turkey Report said: “This group may assume that there will be no change in their lives due to the election or may simply be uninterested in Turkish politics.”
The percentage of undecided voters who gave the answer “I think the party/leader I support will not win” was 13 percent. The company has noted that “This answer may be indicative of despair regarding the election and the party that they support.”
The rate of those who said, “I will not be in the city where I reside” on election day was 11 percent while three percent stated that they were undecided due to “insecurity.”
Source: Gerçek News
