{"id":119451,"date":"2019-11-18T01:01:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/18\/welsh-bill-would-allow-16-and-17-year-olds-to-vote-in-local-elections\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T01:01:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T00:01:19","slug":"welsh-bill-would-allow-16-and-17-year-olds-to-vote-in-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=119451","title":{"rendered":"Welsh bill would allow 16- and 17-year olds to vote in local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planned changes would be biggest shakeup to country\u2019s electoral system for 50 yearsA bill is being introduced that would give the vote to 16- and 17-year-olds in many elections in Wales and empower local authorities to decide which voting system they use.The Labour-led Welsh government said the planned changes would be the biggest in the Welsh electoral system since the voting age was reduced to 18 in the UK half a century ago. They come as a bill to reduce the voting age to 16 for Welsh assembly elections nears the end of its journey through the Senedd. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/nov\/18\/welsh-bill-would-allow-16--and-17-year-olds-to-vote-in-local-elections\" target=\"_blank\">Welsh bill would allow 16- and 17-year olds to vote in local elections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned changes would be biggest shakeup to country\u2019s electoral system for 50 yearsA bill is being introduced that would give the vote to 16- and 17-year-olds in many elections in Wales and empower local authorities to decide which voting system they use.The Labour-led Welsh government said the planned changes would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}