The “Freedom of Vote and Family Voting” 2014 study, conducted by the Institute for Development Research and Alternatives (IDRA) with the technical and financial assistance of the UN Women, is based on a national survey of 2000 respondents, ofage18 + years old. The main objective of this study is to elicit citizens’ opinion on different practices that might intervene with the freedom of voting, evaluate the occurrence of the “Family Voting” phenomenon, as well as understand and identify the current flaws behind such practices.

The vast majority of respondents (93%) declare that they felt “completely free” when making their decision on whom to vote in 2013 elections.  Such findings suggest that direct, obvious or violent pressure on voters to vote against their will, has not been highly present. It does not however rule out the possibility that votes were promised in return of various favors. Indeed, about 43% of respondents declare to be aware of cases in which votes were promised in return of favors. Particularly, voting “to keep the current job”, to “get a job after elections” and in return “of money or gifts” are mentioned as frequent phenomena encountered by more than one third of the respondents.

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