Sergio Massa, mayor of Tigre and leading candidate for deputy on the Progressive Front list in Buenos Aires, has called on young people to vote in the next legislative elections, at a meeting with students in the final years of high school.
«We want all young people, whoever they vote for, to go and vote. It adds extra pressure into politics because the kids’ healthy rebelliousness increases the demands on us,» Massa stated during the meeting, that took place under the «Today we take part» program organised by Tigre town hall.
The Tigre legislative session was the site for the initiative, which held as its aim «making the youngsters of the district aware of the importance of párticipating as citizens».
I congratulate you because it is one thing to learn the names of the candidates of every position and another is coming here to learn the process through which they are chosen to the place where changes are made. At 16 I was already participating en politics with the dream of changing my neighbourhood, school and politics itself, which helps to create change,» explained Massa on addressing the teenagers, who at 16 and 17 years old will be able to vote for the first time in the next elections.
He added: «I advise you to use your vote above all thinking about the future. When we achieve something in the district it stops belonging to the lawmakers and it is no longer our success, it is the community’s. One never asks those whom you have to elect from what they have done, but what they are going to do because everyone’s quality of life is in the future.
«We have to look forward and think of working together.»
According to Town Hall, more than 700 children a day took part in five meetings with advisers and specialists in citizen participation.
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