Background: As my birthday falls on November, I was unable to turn 21 in time to vote at the last elections. Wasted sia. I really want to exercise my rights and and express my views through the ballot boxes. It doesn’t really matter who I am going to vote for. I just want to vote. Ever since the last elections, I have been thinking of this issue which I am going to talk about it in this post: Voting at 18. Young Singaporeans can vote well and are ready to vote at 18 and they want to vote.
I will allow the following discourse to tell you why?
What do Singapore, Fiji, Samoa, Gabon, Tonga, Kuwait and Lebanon have in common?
The citizens of these countries are only able to vote at the age of 21.
Internationally, 18 years is most often recognized as the age of majority and the voting age in many countries and Singapore is more of the exception rather than the norm in this aspect. I would like to argue that Singapore followed the prevailing trend in the rest of the world and lowered its voting age from 21 years and allowed citizens to vote at the age of 18.
