Children as young as 14 can now join the Labour Party, with the party having amended membership rules and reduced the minimum eligible age from 16.
The amendments were approved during the PL's general conference on Friday evening.
In a statement, the PL said that its youth arm Forum Żagħżagħ Laburisti had in the past year received many requests from youths under 16 who wanted to sign up with the party.
Youth arms of political parties across Europe tend to vary between 14 and 16, with Britain's Labour Party and the German Social Democrats allowing members as young as 14, parties such as Fine Gael in Ireland or the British Tories setting a 15-year-old limit, and others, such as Spain's Popular Party, only allowing membership to youths 16 and older.
A great speech and a roaring response. At 15years of age @CamilleriNolan becomes the youngest ever member to address @PL_Malta Conference, on the same day we lowered membership age to 14years, and a month before 16year olds get to vote in @Europarl_MT elections for first time -JM pic.twitter.com/jvGPTiXdT6
— Joseph Muscat (@JosephMuscat_JM) April 26, 2019
The PL move follows a decision to reduce the voting age for national elections from 18 to 16. That reduced age was introduced last year, with 16-year-olds set to vote for the first time in next month's European elections.
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