Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman. -Bloomberg
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s youth are likely to get more power after backing 93-year-old Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to topple a regime that ruled the South-East Asian nation for six decades.
Malaysia is “very serious” about reducing the voting age to 18 before the next election due by 2023, Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, 25, told Bloomberg in an interview here.
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