Both governments valued citizen involvement in the political process. "
Political participation is the set of actions carried out by citizens who are not necessarily involved in politics directly, and whose action aims to influence the political process in the outcome of it. In other words, political participation describes direct or indirect activities carried out by citizens to influence decisions or the election of rulers and can be carried out in a conventional manner, for example, electoral participation and partisan activism or conventional as protest activities and contact with the authorities.