{"id":10224,"date":"2015-05-06T16:57:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heakodanik.ee\/en\/2015\/05\/06\/breaking-voting-age-lowered-to-16-in-local-elections__trashed\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T21:30:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:30:41","slug":"breaking-voting-age-lowered-to-16-in-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heakodanik.ee\/en\/news\/breaking-voting-age-lowered-to-16-in-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Voting age lowered to 16 in local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<strong>The second Estonian Parliament has approved constitution change that gives 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in the Estonian local government elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span>Changes to constitution need to be approved by two parliaments to take effect. The bill was passed by the 12th Riigikogu in February and by the 13th today, with 62 votes in favor, 10 against and 2 absentations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAn estimated 24,000 16- and 17-year olds can now vote in the 2017 local elections. Considering that not all will use this right, the electorate is expected to increase by approximately 14,000-15,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPolitical scientist T&otilde;nis Saarts told ETV that no party is likely to profit or lose as a result. According to him, young Estonians do lean more to the right, but their preferences do not differ significantly from those of the adults. In addition, young people of other ethnic backgrounds and non-citizens can also vote.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPrior the vote, EKRE announced its opposition to the constitution change. The Free Party said they will not pursue a party line in this matter.<\/p>\n<p>\n\thttp:\/\/news.err.ee\/v\/politics\/7e42b8f5-e54d-4657-83b1-96b5a90a40dc&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second Estonian Parliament has approved constitution change that gives 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in the Estonian local government elections. Changes to constitution need to be approved by two parliaments to take effect. The bill was passed by the 12th Riigikogu in February and by the 13th today, with 62 votes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Voting age lowered to 16 in local elections - Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/heakodanik.ee\/en\/news\/breaking-voting-age-lowered-to-16-in-local-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Voting age lowered to 16 in local elections - Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The second Estonian Parliament has approved constitution change that gives 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in the Estonian local government elections. 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