The recent national parliamentary elections revealed a process of polarisation within the electorate. The LaST research did not want to measure the vote ex post, but to try to capture cultural orientations towards politics. The result of the respondents' self-placement, as might be expected, tends to reflect the recently cast vote, although the two phenomena are not immediately superimposable. Thus, those who place themselves politically on the centre-left (31.0%) outnumber those on the centre-right (28.5%) by a few points, while those who declare themselves to be of the centre (10.7%) constitute a minority, albeit not a marginal one. Up to this point, the orientations remain in the groove of traditional political cultures and involve a total of about three quarters (76.7%) of the population.
The phenomenon that arouses interest, however, is the emergence of a third cultural pole with a slightly lower weight than the previous ones: these are those who declare that they do not recognise themselves in the traditional canons of siding and do not place themselves in any political space (23.3%). Their profile tends to cross gender and professional conditions (although flexible and precarious workers are more inclined than others: 28.0%). However, it is more intense in the North East (22.6%), the Centre (26.5%) and the South (26.1%) than in the North West (18.0%). Above all, it is an orientation inversely proportional to age groups: among the very young (under 24 years) 38.9% and 31.8% among 25-34 year olds, respectively, are unable to get a job and gradually decrease to 11.2% among those over 65. Thus, this is a tendency that tends to be transversal, but which mainly involves the younger generations.
