Tegucigalpa.
61% of “millennia“Hondurans would not vote in the primaries, scheduled for March 14, if they were to take place immediately, and they want to migrate due to underemployment, and 77% believe that Honduras offers no opportunities to start a business.
This was announced to Efe last Friday by the economic policy manager of the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (Cohep), Santiago Herrera, based on a survey conducted by the country’s leaders.
According to the study, 61% of millennials surveyed answered that if the election were held today, they would not vote, while 52% said they had no political affiliation.
“To the extent that political parties become interlocutors of the requirements needs of the people, to that extent people trust the parties, ‘Herrera emphasized.
In Honduras, however, young people have “lost faith” in political parties because their needs were not met, he added.
Many young people believe that a leader “is not necessarily a party, but interprets his demands and needs and probably has a better chance of meeting his demands. expectationsHerrera stressed.
Primary or internal elections, which are not compulsory, are held on March 14 with the participation of the national parties in power; the Libertad y Refundación (free, the first opposition force), and the Liberal, also opposition, while the generals will be executed in November of 2021.
Migrate without opportunities
On the other hand, 61% of the millennial generation, made up of people born in the 80s and 90s, want to migrate mainly due to the lack of jobs and opportunities in their country.
The high number of millennials looking to migrate is concerned about the private business of Hondurassaid Herrera, saying that young people who are “discouraged” by the lack of a job have only “two options: they seek out regular or irregular emigration, look elsewhere for opportunities, or they are easy prey to get involved in.” activities of the irregular “.
He stressed that family remittances are the main source of foreign exchange for the Central American country, but “it is still a family and social tragedy” due to the irregular migration of thousands of Hondurans.
“We would like to see these young people educated, educated, develop a job and enter the labor market in a productive way. The country should not sacrifice its youth for lack of opportunities,” stressed the Cohep representative.
The true goal of the Honduras private company “before, during and after.” pandemicand after the devastating passage of tropical storms Eta and Iota last November, it creates “employment,” he stressed.
Young people need access to “formal employment, not casual or insecure,” said Herrera, who indicated that private companies need a business environment conducive to job creation.
Companies also need a favorable investment climate that ensures “trustas well as an environment with conditions of legal certainty that ensures that the “rules are stable,” he added.
Lack of training, another shortcoming
The document reveals another flaw: the lack of access to education in the country, where only 17% of millennials surveyed have graduated from university, 39% have attended secondary school and 16% have only primary school.
Moreover, 23% of young people are students academic3% have a technical career and only 2% have a postgraduate education, for which Herrera urged the Honduran authorities to strengthen the education system and ensure internet access.
87% of millennials have a television at home, 86% have a smartphone and only 35% have a computer at home.
The Cohep study also indicates that 77% of those surveyed believe that there are no opportunities to start a business in Honduras and 29% want to start a business in the short term.
“Every time the country makes an effort and we have to recognize that it has tried both at the government level (…) to consolidate all of its entrepreneurship promotion programs. As a private company, we have motivated and promoted many actions to ensure that young people have the ability to start a business in an easy way, ”he explained.
Herrera stressed the importance of increasing income families to improve people’s quality of life and prevent young people from irregular migration in caravans.