Welsh Youth Parliament

Part of 1. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 12 December 2018.

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Photo of Elin Jones Elin Jones Plaid Cymru 1:51, 12 December 2018

Well, like your representative in Cardiff Central, Caleb from Ceredigion also had local transport as one of his key priorities. His other two were the need for a people's vote and independence for Wales, so slightly different choices there. [Interruption.] Well, it could be many.

But young people will find their own voice and will come here and make their own mark, and it's important for us, I think, as an Assembly to make sure that we allow them to define the way that they work and how they prioritise any issues that they want to prioritise. Over 20,000 young people did register to vote. We need to make sure that more people are registered for the next election. Turnout is something that we also want to work on for the next election. It was an electronic election, but there were some opportunities for within-school voting as well, and that proved to be particularly useful in terms of ensuring that there was turnout. We will have learnt a great deal in how we ran this election, and we can review that and take the views of the young people themselves who were involved in it to consider how we develop on this for the future.