THE QUESTION.
During her campaign meeting last Saturday in Lille, the PS presidential candidate, Anne Hidalgo, pledged to lower the voting age to 16 if she was elected in 2022. This measure would allow, according to her to encourage young citizens to participate more in public life, and thus to reduce abstention, which increases election after election in France.
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An opinion widely shared on the left.
"Late awakening of the majority.
Yes, the right to vote at 16 makes it possible to fight against abstention among young people,
”recently published the EELV candidate, Yannick Jadot, on Twitter.
The ecologist replied to Secretary of State Clément Beaune (European Affairs), who declared himself "
rather favorable
" to this idea, considering however that claiming
"that we will solve the problem of young people's interest in politics lowering the voting age would be an easy thing ”.
Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot, and other left-wing personalities who declare that the opening of the
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