Santo Domingo. – The Latinobarómetro 2006-2024 report places the Central Electoral Board (JCE) of the Dominican Republic as the fifth electoral institution in the region where there is the most trust and the sixth among those who think that the elections are clean.
The first place is occupied by Chile; the second, Uruguay, the third Mexico; the fourth, Costa Rica; the fifth, Dominican Republic, followed by El Salvador, Panama, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Paraguay, Guatemala, Ecuador and other Latin American nations.
The study measured the opinions, attitudes and behavior of citizens towards politics from their self-positioning to the interest that people have in it, voting and their behavior, as well as its value for citizens, and the integrity of the elections.
The institution describes that in 2006 it began to measure matters relating to electoral entities in the countries of the region, mainly due to complaints in some States regarding the integrity of the electoral process.
About Latinobarómetro
The report is produced by the Latinobarómetro Corporation, a private non-profit corporation based in Santiago, Chile, which is solely responsible for the data.
The study was applied in 17 countries between August 23 and October 9, 2024 in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama , Paraguay and the Dominican Republic.
In ten countries in South America and Mexico, samples of 1,200 cases representative of each country were applied to citizens aged 18 years and over (16 years in Brazil), and 1,000 cases were applied in the five countries of Central America and in the Dominican Republic.
In total, 19,214 interviews were applied in 17 countries with a confidence level of 95%, the margin of error of the national samples is between +/-2.8 and +/-3.1% and +/- 6.0% in Colombia.
