Election Voting Age Lebanon, Women Make A Stand In Lebanese Elections Arab News

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Us yesterday corona cases. 79 see constitution art. In a context where rampant sectarianism is poisoning lebanese politics this minor constitutional change is expected to have a huge impactmany fear that the youths natural enthusiasm and fervor will worsen the. Parliamentary elections were held in lebanon on 7 june 2009 to elect all 128 members of the parliament of lebanon background.

76 and 77 outline of the process to amend the lebanese constitution see constitution arts. Parliament in lebanon has unanimously approved a proposal to lower the voting age to 18 from 21 but a constitutional amendment is needed to make the change. A voting age is a minimum age established by law that a person must attain before they become eligible to vote in a public electionas of the present day the most common voting age is 18 years.

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Every lebanese citizen who has reached 18 years old can be a voter is heshe meets all eligibility conditions. The new proportional electoral law agreed upon in wednesdays cabinet session failed to incorporate several key issues including a reduction in the voting age from 21 and the introduction of a parliamentary quota for women. Fesl eb anob rifgpp 20m ch 9 t see constitution art.

Parliaments vote to lower the voting age on 19 march 2009 parliament voted unanimously to adopt a constitutional law to reduce the voting age in lebanon from 21 years to 18 years. Countries whose legal voting age is 17. Countries whose legal voting age is 17 are sudan south sudan north korea indonesia greece and east timor.

The law proposes that article 21 of the constitution should be amended to read as follows. 79 see constitution arts. Lebanons national legislature is called the chamber of deputies majlis an nouwab.

However voting ages as low as 16 and as high as 25 currently exist see list below. It is expected to take several months and under 21s will not be able to vote parliamentary elections in june. Turnout rates continued to fluctuate throughout the mid 20th century as women gained the right to vote congress passed the 1965 voting rights act and the national voting age became 18 the voting.

Lebanons 2009 parliamentary elections parliaments vote to lower the voting age to 18 years. Since the elections of 1992 the first since the reforms of the taif agreement of 1989 removed the built in majority previously enjoyed by christians the parliament is composed of 128 seats with a term of four years. Seats in the parliament are confessionally distributed but elected by universal suffrage.

This informed the decision of scotland to lower its legal voting age to 16 from 18.