When a civic group surveyed the policies to be emphasized in the next House of Representatives election, more than 40,000 people, mainly young people and women, responded, with "improving the working environment of the working generation" being the most common, "corona measures" and "child-rearing". "Improvement of the environment" continued.
This survey was conducted on the Internet late last month by a civic group aiming to improve the voter turnout, which is made up of multiple NPOs and groups that regularly work on child-rearing support and poverty alleviation, and received responses from 44,629 people. I did.
80% of the respondents were in their teens to 30s by age group and women by gender.
Of these, when asked about the policies to be emphasized in the next House of Representatives election from more than 20 options,
▽ "improving the working environment of the working generation" was the most common 76%
▽ "corona measures" 70%
▽ "child-rearing" "Improving the environment" was 62%
▽ "Tax reform including consumption tax" was 61%
▽ "Poverty problem / correction of disparity" was 60%
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In addition, more than 90% of the respondents answered "I will definitely vote" and "I plan to vote", and the reason is
▽ "Because I have voted" 50%
▽ "Recently, interest in politics 44% of the respondents answered, "Because it has increased
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Yumiko Watanabe, the chairman of the child-rearing support group who was involved in the survey, said, "The result was that there was a lot of interest in familiar policies such as rebuilding lives. In the future, we will introduce the policies of political parties and candidates and improve the turnout. I want to connect to it. "