Undi18 voters just missing out on Sarawak election could lead to future backlash, say analysts | Malay Mail

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 4 ― The exclusion of 18- to 21-year-old voters from the Sarawak election despite the lowered voting age coming into effect just ahead of it might cause resentment that could carry forward to future polls, said analysts.

“Many youths would believe that the timing to lift the Emergency was a political calculation to deny them their right to vote and may punish them come GE15 for the parliamentary seats,” Thomas said briefly when contacted. Wan Junaidi, who is also Santubong MP, explained that the gazette was made so as to meet the deadline of December 31 as ordered by the High Court and that significant administrative work still remained before the initiative could be applied next year.

UndiSarawak’s research lead Nadia Malyanah said there would be backlash but that it was too early to gauge how significant this would be as the voting tendencies of 18- to 21-year-olds were still not established.that young voters were traditionally apathetic towards politics and may decide not to vote at all, especially in states where voting districts have been delineated and voters are distributed or added to an uneven playing field between parties.

On March 25, 2021, the Election Commission had said that its records showed that there are currently 1.2 million Malaysians aged 18 to 20 but how many of them will vote and how they will vote is a number no one has at the moment. Oh sentiments were echoed by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia geostrategist Prof Azmi Hassan who said Wan Junaidi’s explanation for the delay in implementation to be plausible and reasonable.“Come GE15 all of them will be able to vote. As far as Sarawak goes, GPS had always said they welcomed the 18 to 20-year-olds to vote but the timeline here, it’s just too early,” he added.

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