Most Greeks have lost faith in their politicians, while very few are fully satisfied with their lives, according to the country’s official statistics authority
Roughly one in two Greeks (45%) do not have faith in the country’s political system, according to a report published on Thursday by Elstat, Greece’s official statistics authority.
Reservations about the legal system and police are also relatively high with 19.2% and 12.5%, respectively, saying it has no faith at all in either, said the authority’s report on the Indicators on Well-being in Greece.
Reflecting the impact the country’s enduring debt crisis has had on people’s confidence in the country’s political establishment, the results showed that just 0.6% of the Greek population has full confidence in the political system.
More specifically, 50.6% of unemployed people has no faith in the political system at all. But the corresponding rate for the employed is equally high at 46.2%. Only 1.4% of the total population says it is completely satisfied with its financial situation.
The survey also showed that indicators of life satisfaction are also running low with just 5.1% of the population feeling completely satisfied with life overall, while 5.0% of employed people is completely satisfied with the work situation.
Greece exited its worst recession in more than 50 years this month, but the toll on people’s lives has been immense as unemployment soared while the economy shrank by 25% since the debt crisis began in 2009.