David Seymour Sees Local Councilor Roles as Far Less Important Than His
November 22, 2022
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The ACT Party has also said it opposed lowering the voting age, but leader David Seymour this afternoon said they would be fine with a change at the local government level.
“Yeah I don’t see a huge problem with that - as the Supreme Court has noted the restrictions on Parliamentary voting don’t apply to local body elections … and I think maybe a bit of training wheels on the local body mightn’t be a bad way to go,” he said.
“I guess you can’t do quite as much damage electing a bad council as you can electing a bad government, so not a bad place to try.”