Empower young adults, incoming Cabinet must implement Undi18, says MCA Youth

MCA Youth calls upon the incoming Prime Minister and Cabinet to seize on this opportunity to implement Undi18.

MCA Youth is willing to provide all necessary assistance and recommendations.

In April this year, MCA Youth submitted a memorandum on #Undi18 to the Election Commission (EC) and proposed “3 Demands + 1 Cooperation”.

MCA Youth now reiterates the relevant demands as follows:

1. Before the 15th General Election (GE15), the policy to lower the voting age from 21 years to 18 years must be accelerated.

2. MCA Youth understands that the implementation of automatic voter registration requires cooperation with the National Registration Department. We, therefore, hope that the EC will provide a timetable for implementing this policy and a list of parties cooperating.

3. At least two youth representatives are required to become members of the EC to ensure that the voices of young adults are taken seriously. MCA Youth proposes that one of the representatives be below 21 years old; the other representative should be below 30 years old.

The formation of the new Cabinet is an apt time to implement Undi18, as doing so will prove that the new Cabinet values the voices of young adults and is willing to give them more voices and choices to accelerate the country’s democratic system, one step further.

The seven-point cross-party framework for bipartisan cooperation announced by former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin includes the implementation of Undi18.

We hope that the new Cabinet will proceed towards implementing this policy.

Datuk Nicole Wong Siaw Ting

MCA National Youth chairperson