Trust in opposition under electronic democracy: legal and political aspects

The protection of national interests and constitutional freedoms largely determine citizens' trust in executive power and in opposition. Democracy remains the only political regime that ensures sustainable development in the context of digitalization. The legal guarantees of democracy are designed to ensure pluralism, political participation, as well as the ability of the opposition to use its power to protect national interests. The study of citizens' trust in operating in virtual space opposition uses a combination of discursive analysis and participant observation to analyze the logic of voters who stake against the party in power, on the one hand, and who commit to national interests, on the other hand. The objectives of the study of trust in the systemic and non-systemic opposition are determined by the need to improve the functioning of responsible and efficient alternative leaders within the political class. The virtual agenda of the digital political space causes the transformation of the formats of the struggle for power. At the same time, the trust of citizens in the authorities and in the opposition, despite digitalization, continues to obey the psychological, humanitarian logic, where the individual motivation of opinion leaders is significant. The specificity of e-democracy lies in the need for permanent humanization and updating of the agenda in order to avoid populism and retrotopia practices that threaten the successful implementation of the foreign and domestic policy of the state.