Why are young voters suddenly turning away from the liberal Democratic Party?

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• ·Local election ballot controversy has been recent flashpoint, but perceived arrogance and party's focus on older voters have been eroding support for some time.
• ·The ruling liberal Democratic Party (DP) is losing ground among the younger demographic — spefically, male and female voters in their 20s and 30s — and the pace has been accelerating since the June 3 local elections.
• ·What was once a political divide largely defined by men and women in their 20s is evolving into a broader retreat by younger voters as a whole.
• ·Just weeks after the June 3 local elections, support for the DP among voters in their 20s dropped to 21.3 percent, down 12.8 percentage points from the last pre-election survey in the second week of May, according to a Realmeter poll conducted on June 11 and 12.
• ·Support for the opposition People Power Party (PPP), on the contrary, jumped 25.6 percentage points to 59.1 percent.