Youth and Sport Minister Syed Saddiq delivers his remarks during the opening of the convention on the Rise of the Asean Tiger at Dewan Agong Tuanku Canselor, UiTM Shah Alam on April 1, 2019. — Sunpix by Asyraf RasidCabinet will move to reduce the legal voting age from 21 to 18 years old, according to Youth and Sport Minister Syed Saddiq.
“Cabinet decided this in its weekly meeting and this time, we managed to set a timeline, which June/July parliamentary session to amend the laws,“ he said in a press conference after opening a convention on the Rise of the Asean Tiger at Universiti Teknologi Mara , here today. In Sept 19 last year, Syed Saddiq said that the cabinet had agreed to lower the voting age from 21 to 18, for application in the 15th general election and onward. This would be among several amendments to the Federal Constitution that were expected to ensure that the country’s polling system could be more transparent and fair.