Govt not afraid to lower voting age

PAGOH: The Perikatan Nasional government is not afraid over the lowering of the minimum voting age to 18 and wants the Election Commission (EC) to hasten the implementation process on automatic voter registration (AVR).

Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said he recently met with EC chairman Datuk Abdul Ghani Salleh and accepted the latter’s explanation over the matter.