Ahier appointed Jersey Privileges and Procedures Committee chair
In a speech, Ahier told the assembly that he wanted to help young people discover the passion he had for politics as a child.He said: "When I was a child, politics was regularly discussed at home and, on the occasion of an island-wide election, my father would drive us around to the various polling stations to hear what the results were."This would commence in St Mary and would head east through the country parishes, ending in our then parish hall of St Saviour."Trying to revive that sort of enthusiasm would be difficult to invoke in this modern age. "But starting the conversation by reaching out to as many people of possible in all walks of life is one of the primary functions and, hopefully, we will be able to put up our voting figures."
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