About every three months....some folks from the Linke Party, the Greens, or the SPD....stand up and voice the idea that voting rights be extended down to German teens (age 16).
N-TV covered the newest 'voice'....the SPD gal who serves the Justice Minister of Germany (Christine Lambrecht).
To accomplish this, you'd have to amend the Constitution and have a majority in terms of the Bundestag and the 16 states in somewhat agreement. Right now, there is simply not the numbers to accomplish this.
The general problem with the suggestion? If you say sixteen year old 'kids' are old enough to vote, then they are old enough to face adult punishment in the court system.....meaning real sentences and real jail. Lambrecht has said no.....that voting is different from criminal behavior.
One can bring up this topic with working-class Germans.....they'd say all issues change if you amend the Constitution....to include making 'kids' adults and sending to serious court action if they screw up.
If you were to rate this proposal on passing? I'd say it's less than a 10-percent chance that it'll pass over the next five years.
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