The U.K. Plans to Lower the Voting Age to 16. Here’s What to Know.
The British government said on Thursday that it would allow 16- and 17-year olds to vote, in what it described as a landmark moment for democracy and some of its opponents decried as an attempt to tilt the electoral playing field.
Анализаторите дефинираха проекта като най -голямото разширение на правата на глас в страната от десетилетия. The last nationwide reduction in voting age, to 18 from 21, came more than 50 years ago.
“Declining trust in our institutions and democracy itself has become critical, but it is the responsibility of government to turn this around and renew our democracy, just as generations have done before us, ” the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, wrote in an introduction to a policy paper that included the известие.
Планът включва и обещания за стягане на законите за задгранични дарения на политически партии и за опростяв...
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