The president of the market research company Asisa Research Group has concluded that persons classified as upper middle class and the upper class are least likely to vote in the presidential, congressional and municipal elections in the Dominican Republic.
Lilian Pagán explained that traditionally barely four of the ten people in these classes decide to cast ballots. She noted that there is now a phenomenon in the country that the persons with medium incomes are becoming not only disinterested in political affairs and the problems affecting Dominican society as a whole.
Interviewed by Héctor Herrera Cabral on the program D´ Agenda, for Telesistema Channel 11, Pagán said that the candidates and parties should bear this in mind for the upcoming elections as this change could alter the previous patterns of voting.
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Listin Diario
31 July 2018
