Public health tops the confidence ranking of Spaniards and political parties close the table

Public

is the institution that receives the highest level of citizen trust in Spain, followed by the institutions that guarantee the rule of law, especially the

, the

and, at a certain distance, also the

, according to the study of public opinion

, carried out by the

.

On the other hand, in the lower part of the trust map drawn by this survey and in descending order are the

, the

, the

, the

,

,

and

, which close the ranking. .

The BBVA Foundation study was carried out between the months of September and October 2022 through a survey of a representative sample of

.

This X-ray shows how the trust in the best positioned institutions among citizens corresponds to and even increases with respect to that received by the professional groups that support them: scientists, doctors, police and military are, along with teachers, those who arouse the highest level trusted.

88% of Spaniards rate public health with 5 or more points on a scale from 0 to 10. In addition, 50% of the citizens of our country give them the highest confidence scores, between 8 and 10.

Closer, more trust

At the least trusted end are the political parties, which are "trustworthy only for 28% of Spaniards."

However, trust in executive institutions depends on the degree of closeness to the citizens: this is how the

obtain a greater relative trust , followed by the

and, after them, the central government.

Despite everything, as the BBVA Foundation study concludes, the lack of confidence in the performance of the elites and forces that exercise these functions does not imply detachment from the institutional framework or the principles of representative democracy, the level being very high. confidence generated by

as a form of government and

and the

, with more than 80% of the population scoring them 5 or more.

The Police and the Army confirm the upward trend of recent years and obtain very broad and intense levels of trust: close to 40% of the population gives these institutions maximum trust (grades between 8 and 10) and more than 75% scores them 5 or more.

On the other hand, the courts of justice in general and the

in particular, are in the average range of confidence of citizens: 60% and 56% respectively score them with 5 points or more.

With regard to the media, they obtain levels similar to those of the rest of the institutions that express the pluralism of society.

Newspapers

and

medium-high confidence area of ​​the survey.

Somewhat below is

, which generates a more significant percentage of distrust.

are placed at the end of the least trust

, which are rated by almost a third of those surveyed with the worst grade range (between 0 and 2 points).

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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