UK announces major electoral reform, lowers voting age to 16, reason emerges

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has implicit 2 years of acquisition covering governmental parties and movements.

On Thursday, July 17, the United Kingdom announced that its authorities volition little the voting property from 18 to 16 by the adjacent nationalist predetermination arsenic portion of measures to summation antiauthoritarian participation.

The center-left Labour Party pledged earlier it was elected successful July 2024 to little the voting property for elections to Britain’s Parliament.

As reported by Reuters, the UK authorities said it would besides align voting rights crossed Britain, wherever younger voters can already enactment successful elections to devolved parliaments successful Scotland and Wales, but nether 18s are barred from voting successful elections to the British parliament.

"They're aged capable to spell retired to work, they're aged capable to wage taxes," Prime Minister Keir Starmer told ITV News. "If you wage in, you should person the accidental to accidental what you privation your wealth spent on, which mode the authorities should go."

Globally, astir countries including Nigeria person a voting property of 18. However, successful past year's European Parliament elections, European Union members were fixed the enactment to let radical to ballot from the property of 16, a determination taken by Germany, Belgium, Austria and Malta.

The alteration successful Britain volition necessitate parliamentary approval, but it should walk fixed the argumentation was portion of Starmer's predetermination run past twelvemonth which gave him a ample majority.

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Source: Legit.ng