FEATURES OF THE RIGHT OF YOUNG PEOPLE AS THE SUBJECTS OF THE ELECTION PROCESS AT AN EXAMPLE OF STUDENTS OF THE LAW FACULTY OF THE NATIONAL AVIATION UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The purpose of article: to investigate and analyze the current state and level of legal awareness among young people as subjects of the electoral process, to investigate the factors influencing the legal awareness of youth. Methods of research: used methods of survey, analysis, comparison and synthesis. Results: sources of influence on young people legal conscience are analyzed and it is determined that the greatest threat is the influence exercised by social networks and mass media that can be used during election campaigns in order to distort certain information, present it from the advantageous side, etc. Discussion: raising the level of legal awareness of young people as voters is a necessary step for the legal development of Ukrainian society and the qualitative formation of state authorities, local self-government bodies and their functioning in the near future.

Today, the state of legal consciousness of young people as voters is in critical condition, which is caused by various external and internal factors: political processes, state of the economy and life as a whole, an exacerbated sense of justice of the younger generation, etc. Since this category is almost uninterested in the electoral process and has a low level of legal awareness as voters, it is more submissive to manipulative influence. The greatest threat is the impact on youth’s legal awareness of social networks and media. To increase the level of legal awareness among young people as voters today, it is first necessary to review and investigate the current electoral legislation and the mechanism for conducting elections to identify and eliminate possible abuses, to inform young people in mass media and social networks about the importance of the vote of each of them in the elections.