After new PM says will hear youths out, Syed Saddiq calls for Undi18’s implementation
When he was the youth and sports minister under the former Pakatan Harapan government, Syed Saddiq was instrumental in ensuring unanimous support from government and opposition MPs to amend the Federal Constitution in July 2019 to lower the minimum voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old.
This is also despite the Yang di-Pertuan Agong having already on September 4, 2019, granted royal assent to the Constitution Act 2019 which contains the constitutional amendment, and despite the Act having already been gazetted law when it was published in the government gazette on September 10, 2019.
Both these two constitutional amendments — Section 3 and 3 — have not come into force in Malaysia yet, as they will only come into operation on a date to be appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong via a notification to the public through yet another government gazette. The federal government and the Election Commission had since 2019 repeatedly said that the lower minimum voting age of 18 years old is expected to come into effect by July 2021.
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