On Dec 15 last year, the lowering of the voting age to 18 years old and the Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) system came into effect.
This brought the expectation of a “youth tsunami” that would lead Malaysia away from the racialism of parties such as Umno and towards multi-racial parties like PKR.
However, there is also a possibility that youths may follow previous generations in supporting mono-ethnic/mono-religious parties like Umno and PAS.
With this increasing uncertainty in the political landscape, Malaysiakini asked the newly-elected PKR Youth chief Adam Adli Abdul Halim how his party plans to navigate the rough tides that lay ahead in the forthcoming 15th general election.
More: https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/624594
