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The earliest moves in Europe came during the 1990s, when the voting age for municipal elections in some States of Germany was lowered to 16. Lower Saxony was the first state to make such a reduction, in 1995, and four other states did likewise.
With the Weimar Republic's Constitution of 1919, the voting system changed from single-member constituencies to proportional representation. The election age was reduced from 25 to 20 years of age. [1] Women's suffrage had already been established by a new electoral law in 1918 following the November Revolution of that year.
Election of the 7th German Bundestag (19 November 1972) – By changing article 38 (2) of the Basic Law in 1970 the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 and the legal age to be eligible for election was adapted to the voting age, which was 21 at that time. Before that, one had to be 25 to stand for election.
The voting age was also lowered from 25 to 20. [3] Austrian citizens living in Germany were allowed to vote, with German citizens living in Austria being allowed to vote in the February 1919 Constitutional Assembly elections. [4]
The three parties announced a number of policies, including plans to phase out coal energy by 2030, eight years ahead of the previous target, as well as lower the federal voting age to 16 years, raise the minimum wage to €12 per hour, and lower barriers to acquiring German citizenship. Annalena Baerbock will become foreign minister, while ...
In Germany a citizen must be 18 or over to be elected at the ... defaulting to Section 46 which "provides for a minimum voting age of 18 years" in National Assembly ...
The elections for the National Assembly were the first held in Germany after the introduction of women's suffrage [3] and the lowering of the legal voting age from 25 to 20 years. Together the changes raised the number of eligible voters by around 20 million. [4]
In 2003 and 2008 the German parliament held a vote on ... The 'flexible voting age' proposal contains a need for adolescents to register in voting lists and so ...