Botswana: Batswana Maintain Preference for Democracy, but Support for Elections Is Weakening

More than half of citizens express dissatisfaction with the way their democracy is working.

Key findings

• Seven in 10 Batswana (70%) prefer democracy to all other forms of government.
• Overwhelming majorities oppose dictatorship (91%), military rule (81%), and one-party rule (80%).
• About two-thirds (65%) of citizens say elections are the best way to choose the country’s political leaders. o But the proportion of citizens who favour elections has dropped by more than 20 percentage points since 2008…