Politics

Too young to vote? Voting at 16 is an exception in the European Union.

The debate about what role adolescents have in society and the conditions that this generation faces is recurrent, whether due to the appearance of a viral Netflix miniseries, as has been the case withAdolescence, as with the decision of the minority part of the Spanish government (Sumar) to once again raise the question of whether people should be able to vote from the age of 16. Opponents of the change to the electoral law cite, among other things, a lack of maturity, while those who defend it see it as a way of representing the concerns of this group and returning, with rights, some of the duties that can already be attributed to them.

The debate about what role adolescents have in society and the conditions that this generation faces is recurrent, whether due to the appearance of a viral Netflix miniseries, as has been the case with , as with the decision of the minority part of the Spanish government (Sumar) to once again raise the question of whether people should be able to vote from the age of 16. Opponents of the change to the electoral law cite, among other things, a lack of maturity, while those who defend it see it as a way of representing the concerns of this group and returning, with rights, some of the duties that can already be attributed to them..