Parliement vote on lowering voting age to 18

Today MPs will vote in decisive legislative session on whether to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. However, even if parliament votes for the change it is highly unlikely that all the measures needed to implement the law would be able to be completed before the upcoming 2009 election. As lowering the age to 18 would need a constitutional amendment and below, a briefing document from IFES, illustrates the elongated process of consitutional amendment in Lebanon.

IFES Briefing Note on Amending Constitution 29 Nov 07

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