Your Voice is Your Right Caroline and Lucy and the team at the Christchurch Youth Council

2023 election information for young people from the team at Rūnaka Taiohi o Ōtautahi / Christchurch Youth Council

2023 election information for young people from the team at Rūnaka Taiohi o Ōtautahi / Christchurch Youth Council

This episode is the beginning of our Interviewing the Candidates Segment, where we interview local candidates for this year's General Election so that you have a chance to hear their perspective and their party's policies on important issues for young people.

In this episode we interview Luke Jones who is the New Zealand Labour Party candidate for the Selwyn Electorate and Raf Manji who is the leader of The Opportunities Party and the candidate for the Ilam electorate.

Interview timestamps: Luke Jones 1:20 and Raf Manji 25:40

Lucy chats with first time voters about why they are excited to exercise their democratic power for the first time and Caroline talks with young voters on where they get their information about who to vote for and why they are voting in this election. For more information make sure to follow the Christchurch Youth Council on Instagram and Facebook at chchyouthcouncil.

In this episode Caroline will be chatting to Tori, a local youth advisor for the Electoral Commission . We will be diving into the process of registering and casting your vote in the upcoming general election, as well as why young people should be getting out there and voting!