Kuala Lampur, July 18 -- DAP's Liew Chin Tong has praised Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman for rallying MPs from both sides of the aisle to work together for the successful push to lower the voting age in Malaysia.

Commenting on the historic constitutional change dubbed the "Undi 18" Bill that was unanimously passed in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday, Liew highlighted the 26-year-old minister's performance.

"Syed Saddiq displayed what a young person could do, which was to ignore the naysayers and just keep pushing and engaging," the deputy defence minister was quoted as saying by local daily New Straits Times.

Liew also pointed out that the Pakatan Harapan administration was a "reformist government" and was unfazed by the...