Getting youths ready for the polls


There is an urgent need to increase political literacy among the country’s youths.

This is especially so, following the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18, and the implementation of automatic voter registration, which will see more than seven million Malaysian youths registered automatically as new voters in the coming 15th general election (GE15).

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