KUALA LUMPUR – The implementation of Undi18 and automatic voter registration should be expedited as both have been approved in the Dewan Rakyat, Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah said.
“The definition of youth, maturity and the like are subjective. (For a person) to make a national policy, he must first reach the accepted age (of maturity). This is what happened in #Undi18. The age of 18 has been accepted as mature enough,” he tweeted today.
The voting age for Malaysians was lowered from 21 to 18 after the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2019 was passed by the Dewan Rakyat on July 16, 2019, and by the Senate on July 25 the same year.
Yesterday, the Election Commission had in a statement yesterday said that Undi18 and automatic voter registration could only be implemented after September 1 next year due to various constraints and issues. – Bernama, March 26, 2021
