Our country is among the European states with the worst assessments of the functioning of democracy, according to the Democracy Perception Index 2026, the largest annual global study on the population's perception of democracy, conducted by Nira Data in collaboration with the Alliance of Democracies and published last Friday. The research, carried out in 98 states and based on interviews given by over 94,000 adults between March 19 and April 21, 2026, paints the picture of a world that