In Taiwan, legislators consider bypassing constitutional amendment to lower voting age

Legal experts and youth advocacy groups today issued a letter suggesting that the law be amended to lower the voting age to 18, thereby bypassing the high threshold for amending the Constitution. Article 130 of the Constitution states that citizens must be at least 20 years of age to vote. However, to avoid the need to pass a constitutional amendment, which has a high threshold for passage, legislators across party lines have proposed amending the Civil Servants Election and Recall Act [ . . . ] and Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Act [ . . . ] In a public hearing at the Legislative Yuan’s Internal Administration Committee on April 22, opinions differed on the strategy of amending the two laws. Some experts said that it would be unconstitutional, while others suggested that a constitutional interpretation may be a more feasible approach.
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