Lower levels of schooling or too many young people. That is why, among other reasons, this is the region of the country with the lowest turnout: in the first round of the presidential election 57.85% of electors stayed at home

The region, or electoral constituency, is the Azores: six of the ten municipalities with the highest abstention rates are Azorean and there are 19 with abstention above 50%. According to sociologist Fernando Diogo, of the University of the Azores and a researcher at CICS.Nova, the solution may take decades but lies in schools: “It is not necessary to create new subjects, it is necessary to create a tradition of debates within schools; there is a lack of public engagement in the 'res publica'.”