Ahier appointed as new privileges committee chair

Deputy Steve Ahier has been appointed as the new head of Jersey's Privileges and Procedures Committee.

The committee oversees the way the States Assembly works and helps formulate the island's election laws.

Constable Karen Shenton Stone recently stepped down as head of the committee after three years in the role.

Deputy Ahier said he wanted to work on getting more young islanders engaged in politics.

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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