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German government wants to let 16-year-olds vote – DW – 06/05/2023 (www.dw.com)

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What do you think? Personally I'm all for it. I think it's important to have as many young people involved in politics to counteract the old majority.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be clear, a two-thirds majority would be needed. There is no consense for this, so the governing coalition can wish whatever they want. Especially the CDU (and CSU) does not want this change, because most of the young people do not want to vote vor right-wing conservarives (in U.S. you would call it simply conservative) and thus the CDU would lose percentages. But at least the CDU vor AFD is needed and both will not agree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

unfortunatly the afd is very popular amongst young people. Especially young men in the east.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

young man in this case is mostly the 25-35 age braket

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nope. I was referring to the results of the "under 18 elections", which is basically a survey of who minors would vote for on the election days.