The Politea app, presented as “a chatbot” for democracy, answered thousands of queries in the week before the internal elections. Security, economy and the Colorado candidate Andres Ojeda were the most sought after.
There were 7,116 consultations in the month of June, 62% in the week before the internal elections, according to a report accessed by Ambit.
The main thematic queries revolved around security, economy and social policies, in that order. 7% were about laws Uruguay and other various topics.
Regarding the pre-candidates, the one about whom the app received the greatest number of queries was Andrés Ojeda, who finally triumphed in the internal elections of the Colorado Party. They followed Carolina Cosse and Robert Silva.
The two candidates who received the most votes in the elections, Yamandú Orsi and Alvaro Delgadowere not the most mentioned specifically by name, but users did arrive at their proposals by consulting their political party’s program.
Politea pointed out that the number of queries obtained was approximately five times higher than the average samples used by pollsters to measure voting intention for the internal elections.
Among the proposals of the different parties for the internal elections that took place on Sunday, June 30, these were the main categories (in order of cases): first economic, specifically proposals on taxesincrease in GDP and creation of jobs.
The comparison between National Party and Broad Front in initiatives on security, use of the military for internal security tasks and social policies. 89% of the inquiries on proposals fell into the first two categories.
The application was not designed to answer questions such as the list of presidential candidates in the primaries, key dates, such as the political ban and election day and results of national surveys and projections for the general elections in October.
Politea assured that in the coming weeks a new updated version will be published with the candidates who will compete in the general elections and improvements applied based on suggestions received by its developers.
In addition, at the end of the month, the advanced plan of Politea will be published, the personal assistant for politicians with Artificial Intelligence trained with the laws of the 20 most advanced democracies in the world, which will seek to function as “inspiration” for their government programs.
Source: Ambito
