{"id":57907,"date":"2023-08-29T21:07:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/29\/new-zealand-bill-to-allow-under-18s-to-vote-in-local-elections-passes-first-hurdle"},"modified":"2023-08-29T21:07:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:07:49","slug":"new-zealand-bill-to-allow-under-18s-to-vote-in-local-elections-passes-first-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57907","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: bill to allow under-18s to vote in local elections passes first hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill that would also allow 16- and 17-year-olds to stand as candidates passed its first reading in parliament<\/p>\n<p>A bill that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote and stand as candidates in New Zealand\u2019s local elections has passed its first reading in parliament, nine months after a landmark ruling by the country\u2019s supreme court that the existing age of 18 was inconsistent with human rights law.<\/p>\n<p>The measure passed its first hurdle on Tuesday by 74 votes to 44, supported by all leftwing lawmakers, with the rightwing opposition parties rejecting it. However, the proposal could face a steep uphill battle to pass its final legislative hurdles, and it would not extend voting rights to under-18s in national elections as urged by the young campaigners who brought the supreme court case.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/29\/new-zealand-bill-to-allow-under-18s-to-vote-in-local-elections-passes-first-hurdle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill that would also allow 16- and 17-year-olds to stand as candidates passed its first reading in parliamentA bill that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote and stand as candidates in New Zealand\u2019s local elections has passed its first reading in p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/57907","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57908,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57907\/revisions\/57908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}