This week’s election in Austria is the first election in Europe to extend voting rights to sixteen year olds,
There have been moves to extend voting rights to tenagers in other nations but these have been scuppered by teenagers themselves, when asked for whom they might vote the young people replied:
“What does it matter, nobody understands me anyway.”
Despite finding that nihilism is the most popular political stance amonst they young, leaders of the International Politically Correct Busybodies Group is determined to press ahead with reducing the voting age throughout the western democracies and then pressing ahead with a plan to progressively enfranchise younger children.
A spokesman for the group said “Our slogan til now has been “Old enough to fight, old enough to vote,” but now we are moving towards an “old enough to wipe, old enough to vote with the aim of giving children the vote once they are out of nappies.”
The Group contend that children have traditionally been denied a voice in government and must be allowed to play a part in deciding what kind of world they will inherit.
The leader of the Teletubbies party which will benefit most from a change in the voting age told Boggart Network News: “ This change in the Austrian voting age is a great step forward towards achiving our aims. In a future hung parliament we would hope to become part of a coalition government. That would enable us to push our key policies, cheaper sweeties, no VAT on bubble machines and equal rights for Teddy Bears.
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