The Active Suffrage of Minors

Nataly Ortynska1 natalius2008 [at] ukr.net
  1. Administrative and Information Law Department, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine, Lviv, S. Bandery street 12
Abstract 

The questions on the possibility of reducing the age for the implementation of active suffrage till full age are considered. Arguments on the need to reduce the voting age for local elections and the referendum are shown. The arguments concerning the failure of a minor to independently implement the specified political right are rejected.

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