KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 8 — Malaysia is expected to add another 5.8 million voters with the full implementation of Undi18 or a constitutional amendment that lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18 years old, Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said today.
He said that this would translate to an increase of around 40 per cent in the number of registered voters in the country, which now stands at 15.8 million voters, to the new total of 21.1 million voters. Wan Junaidi said that all Parliament and state constituencies in Malaysia would see a rise in the number of eligible voters when Undi18 and the automatic voter registration is carried out, noting that more than 190 of the 222 parliamentary areas nationwide would each see an increase in new voters at numbers of between 10,000 and 50,000.
“The full implementation of these two laws would see more Malaysians given the right to vote, fulfilling their obligation as a citizen of a democratic country. It is good to also expose this duty to the younger citizens so that they will be more interested in what is going on with the country, especially in the political scene,” he was quoted in the statement as having said during the engagement session.
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