Accra, July 19, 2024 (Lusa) - Mozambique and Angola are among the four African countries where citizens show the least preference for democratic rule, with less than half, while Cabo Verde is the fourth nation where this preference is most pronounced, according to Afrobarometer.
According to this year's edition of this continental survey, carried out in 39 countries, 84% of Cabo Verdeans prefer democracy, well above the average of 66% in Africa. Mozambique, with only 49%, and Angola, with 47%, are among those who least prefer this regime of governance, behind only South Africa and Mali.
The conclusions are contained in this year's Afrobarometer report, which also shows that Sao Tome and Principe is the Portuguese language country where the rejection of a military government is the strongest, with 80% of those surveyed rejecting this alternative, compared with 66% in Angola and 61% in Mozambique, in a list where only 25% and 18% of the inhabitants of Burkina Faso and Mali, governed by a military junta, reject this form of government by the armed forces.
When it comes to satisfaction with democracy, Mozambicans are the most satisfied, with 42%, followed by Sao Tome and Principe, with 28%, Cabo Verde, with 27%, and Angola, where only one in four citizens are satisfied with the regime they live under.
Among the various questions asked of those surveyed between 2021 and 2023, 63% of the inhabitants of Sao Tome and Principe answered in the affirmative when asked if the military can intervene in politics, with that % dropping to 62% in Cabo Verde, 55% in Mozambique and 51% in Angola.
Concerning corruption, only in Angola and Cabo Verde did the percentage of people who answered that it had worsened since the previous year falls below 50%, with just over one in three Angolans (36%) and 47% of Cabo Verde's considering that corruption had increased since 2020.
In Sao Tome and Principe, 62% answered that corruption has increased compared to the previous year, compared to 52% in Mozambique, in a response where 58% of all African respondents consider that corruption has worsened in their country.
At the continental level, over half of Africans would accept a military coup if leaders ‘abused power for themselves’, concludes the latest edition of Afrobarometer, an opinion study covering almost all African countries.
‘More than half of Africans, 53% in 39 countries, are willing to accept a military coup if elected leaders abuse power for themselves,’ according to the Afrobarometer, which provides a set of indicators on how Africans perceive the implementation of democracy in their countries.
According to the website, Afrobarometer is a pan-African, non-partisan polling network that provides information on the experiences and evaluation of democracy, governance, and quality of life on the continent. The data for this year's edition was collected between 2021 and 2023 in 39 African countries.
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