Students to advise Government on how to combat ‘electoral fatigue’

Student organisation Christian Demcorats Students (SDM) said that they will be taking part in the Government’s recently launched public consultation process to postpone local council elections until 2019.

“We will be preparing a detailed document with proposals on how the Government can combat the so-called electoral fatigue.” SDM said in a statement. “We don’t believe that postponing local council elections will solve any problem related to electoral fatigue. Instead, it would lead to a decline in the electorate’s trust in local councils.”

“After launching the vote16 campaign in 2013 to introduce voting rights for 16-18 year olds in local council elections, the government is now planning to postpone the local council elections to 2019,” SDM said. “This is highly contradictory. It will render the vote16 campaign meaningless.”

SDM won the University student council elections back in April this year.