• ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    We need age limits for politicians. I’d be more than fine with that being 60. But this skeleton is 83; she will be 88 by the time her term is done if she wins again. Nobody near 90 should decide the future of the younger generations

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      1 year ago

      I’d make it whatever the retirement age is. In Australia, that would be 67. If we have an age where we agree it’s time to collect your pension and live out your life, then it should apply to politicians as well.

      No, we don’t actually have this policy. Plenty of our pollies are over 67.

    • reallynotnick@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t she be 86, not 88? House term length is just 2 years, so that term would end Jan 3rd 2027 and her birthday is March 26, 1940

      (Not saying 86 is young, just want to be accurate)