As to the first question, all countries seem to accept the idea that there should be a certain age of "political majority" at which young people can be expected to cast their vote. The answer to this question is based on the definition of the maturity (political maturity) that might differ on cultural grounds. Yet, the proposition that this minimum age shall not be higher than the age at which young people are conscripted into the army (18) has strong arguments in favour, political as well as legal. The international human rights instruments clearly provide that a person obtains political rights at age of 18. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in its Part I, Article 1 prescribes that “for the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.”