…not less than half of a inhabitants of ten million rely on the state ultimately—35% are retirees, 10% authorities staff, and one other 5% obtain both unemployment advantages or integration advantages. They might see a rustic with much less youth than they as soon as noticed; they might see what’s actually, after Italy, the second-oldest nation in Europe, with 23% of the inhabitants being older than 65. And they’d additional see that like so many different democratic and fewer democratic international locations, Portugal is having elections and that this election will, as soon as once more, pit the nation’s growing older inhabitants in opposition to its younger folks.
So-called “seniors” are dependable voters, whereas younger folks aren’t, and so this perverse incentive ensures that seniors vote, successfully, to extract lease for themselves from younger folks by means of the state. That is mirrored in voting intentions: folks over 54 are disproportionately prone to vote for the Socialist Celebration, whereas those that are beneath 25 are disproportionately unlikely to vote for it.
One in three folks ages 15-39 has left for abroad. Right here is extra from Vasco Queirós, by way of The Browser.
