HAVANA.- Only 3% of residents on the Island consider themselves firmly socialist, while a majority of 85.9% believe that there must be a change in the political model that opens the way to democracy.
The pollster Cubadata released some of the data from the most recent field work “Exploring possible futures”, which will be made public in the month of July.
Among the results obtained, the independent pollster reveals that 77.1% of those surveyed have been forced to change their life project in recent months due to the acute economic and social crisis experienced on the island; While 64.3% of citizens have even changed their personal values, 78.8% no longer consider revolutionary principles relevant and 79% believe that socialism in Cuba is in decline.
Those who have a pessimistic vision of the future of Cuba reach 53.8% of those surveyed. On issues such as that new generations must create new models and that Cuba must change its model towards a more open one, support is largely majority: 87.9% and 85.9% respectively.
No more socialism
A significant fact revealed is that only 3% of those surveyed by Cubadata during six months consider themselves “firmly socialist”; 11.2% see themselves as “reformist socialists”; 14.2%, centrist and neutral; 21.7% “liberal or pro-market”; 16% identify with “another ideology”, and the majority group (33.9%) does not identify with any.
65.2% of the “liberals and pro-market” believe that profound changes to the regime and government must be made, against 13% of the “firmly socialists.” Even within this latter group, 26.1% consider it essential to establish a multi-party system, a perception that is increasing among “reformist socialists” (29.3%); “centrist or neutral” (43.7%), “other ideologies” (60.9%), “not identified with any” (50.2%) and “liberal and pro-market” (68.5%)
Even among “firmly socialists”, 30.4% believe that civil society should have a more active and leadership role, a figure that among “liberals and pro-market” reaches 69.6%. Regarding youth leading political and social reforms, only 13% of the first group see it as necessary, unlike 50% of the second.
Source: WRITING
