{"id":50356,"date":"2022-11-18T22:01:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/18\/under-21s-given-vote-as-malaysia-goes-to-polls-in-tiktok-election"},"modified":"2022-11-18T22:01:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:01:28","slug":"malaysias-tiktok-election-under-21s-head-to-polls-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50356","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s TikTok election: under-21s head to polls for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday\u2019s poll is first since voting age was lowered to 18, meaning there are 6m more voters than in 2018<\/p>\n<p>Malaysians will vote in a tightly contested general election on Saturday, after two weeks of fierce campaigning in which politicians have sought to woo millions of young voters by embracing Instagram and TikTok trends.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s election is the first since constitutional changes lowered the voting age to 18 and automatically registered voters, meaning there are 6 million more voters than at the previous election in 2018. It is believed to be the first time people under 40 make up the majority of the electorate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/18\/under-21s-given-vote-as-malaysia-goes-to-polls-in-tiktok-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday\u2019s poll is first since voting age was lowered to 18, meaning there are 6m more voters than in 2018Malaysians will vote in a tightly contested general election on Saturday, after two weeks of fierce campaigning in which politicians have sought t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50367,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50356\/revisions\/50367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}