Three out of four people in Mexico consider crime to be one of the country’s main problems, making it the country with the highest prevalence of this issue among the member states of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). However, a survey conducted by the organization shows that more than half of the people in the country have high or moderate trust in the federal government.
According to the OECD survey on trust in public institutions, with 53 percent of respondents having a high or moderate level of trust in the national government, Mexico is among the five OECD countries with the highest levels of trust, behind only Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Luxembourg.
Another 18 percent of respondents said they have neither trust nor distrust in the federal government, and 29 percent said they have low or no trust in this authority, according to the OECD report published this Monday. In the case of Mexico, the survey is based on face-to-face interviews with the country’s urban adult population.
While there was a one percentage point decrease in the level of high or moderate trust that Mexicans report in the national government, falling from 54 to 53 percent, the OECD generally considers this result stable and maintains that only in eight countries—Australia, Canada, Iceland, South Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Norway, and Switzerland—does a majority of the population express moderate or high trust in their national government.
The OECD highlighted that in Iceland, Mexico, South Korea, and Norway, more people have high or moderately high trust in the national government than in the local government; but in all the other countries where the survey was conducted—including Bulgaria, Brazil, Croatia, Peru, and Romania, which are candidate countries but not yet members of the organization—the local government is perceived as more trustworthy than the national government.
Source: jornada
