Malta had “made history”, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat commented on social media as all 64 MPs voted in favour of amending the Constitution making it possible for 16-year-olds to vote in general elections.

A month earlier, on February 2, to be exact, in an online poll by The Malta Independent, readers were asked “Do you agree that 16-year-olds should be allowed to vote in general elections?” The number of those who answered ‘no’ was as high as 78.8 per cent.

Can anyone explain such an ambiguity?

Are our parliamentarians really representing our society? I doubt it.

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