New Zealand’s government will draft legislation to lower the voting age to 16

It comes after the country’s Supreme Court ruled the current voting age is “unjustified discrimination”

New Zealand’s government will draft legislation to lower the voting age to 16

New Zealand’s Supreme Court has ruled not allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to vote is in breach of the NZ Bill of Rights, as it is a form of age-based discrimination.

Whilst the ruling does not automatically lower the voting age to 16 in the country, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said her government will draft legislation to do so.

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