The emphatic victory for the Left Party in last Sunday's state election in Berlin may not have been quite so emphatic if it hadn't been for a significant new rule: This was the first state election in the German capital's history where the voting age had been lowered from 18 to 16. The actual change was relatively small: It only added around 55,000 voters to the city's electorate of 2.5 million, but it was massively significant to young people themselves: "Of course we talk a lot about politics at school or among our friends," 17-year-old Cecilia told DW's Franziska Wüst on the street outside her school in Berlin on Monday. "We're all very politically engaged; we go to a lot of demos.
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