Assembly motion backing votes at 16 and 17
2 releases from 2 parties, 24 September 2024.
Each party’s website press releases, in order of publication
-
‘16 and 17 year-olds must have right to vote’ – Baker
Sinn Féin MLA Danny Baker calls on the British government to honour the Assembly's motion backing votes at 16 and 17, either by legislating or transferring the powers to the Assembly. He cites Labour's manifesto commitment to votes at 16.
-
TUV – the only party to call out Sinn Fein hypocrisy on lecturing people on democracy when Gerry Kelly sits on their benches or note the irony of calling for votes for 16 when you want to deny ANYONE in NI the right to vote on 300 areas of law
TUV MLA Timothy Gaston opposes the Assembly motion on votes at 16, arguing 18 matches international practice and that Sinn Féin is poorly placed to lecture on democracy given Gerry Kelly's seat on its benches. He also says supporters of the motion ignore the Windsor Framework's 300 areas of law…
Parties with no matching press release found on their website
- Alliance: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- DUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- UUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- SDLP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- Green Party: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- PBP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- Aontú: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.
This does not show that a party said nothing: it may have commented elsewhere, in a release this system did not link to the issue, or in a release that has not been recovered.