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.
Coming from Austria where the voting age is 16 I have to say I’m surprised to find out it isn’t the same in Germany.
It´s important to keep in mind that they don´t want this out of the goodness of their hearts but because young people are their target demographic.
When i was around 16 i would´ve considered this the best idea ever tho.
I’m long past 16 and not German, but I fully support this idea.
Would like to see a cap placed on the age of voting as well.
I think it’s fine in theory. However, like the other commenter mentioned, it might not be with the best intentions. Young voters, like older voters, tend to be easier to manipulate.
At this point in time we also could get ChatGPT manage this land… I don’t think it would make a difference to lower the age. The „babyboomer“ are way more active in the voting than the younger generation :s So yes pleas lower the age to vote, also we need a maximum age for the Parlament!
Ah yes, let a language model decide politics, and ignore a few percent of potential voting power. I’d laugh if I didn’t suspect you were serious.
Teenagers are idiots. Raise the voting age to 21.
