By Rodrigo Ibarrola
The low voting participation of young people under 30 is frequently mentioned as one of the reasons why electoral results always end up favoring party structures. In this hypothesis, it is stated -almost mystically- that if young people were to achieve a higher level of participation, professional politicians would be displaced. This is not a belief that only exists in our country. Neither is the lower relative participation of the young population in elections. On the contrary, it is a common phenomenon that occurs both in democracies that we would consider well-grounded and in those that are not.