英語検定ライティング準１級（第532回）

若い有権者「選挙は期日前投票に限る話」

先日のこと。ある大学生と会話する機会があって総選挙の期日前投票をしたと言ってた。そういう行動を取りそうにない雰囲気を醸し出す有権者がある野党の党首の動画を観て政権与党よりも分かりやすいことを言ってたので投票したくなったとか。
There was an opportunity to talk with a female college student the other day, who told us that she participated in the general elections, and she went to the election site  as the right voter in advance before Sunday, she knows.
At first, we failed to consider her as someone positive to visit the election place and to become one of conscious young voters, but she confessed that a certain leader of the opposition party should account for his manifestos so clearly enough for young voters could understand.
On the other hand, the leader of the government party told ordinary citizens something challenging in public.
After all, she failed to become a supporter of the Liberal Democratic Party, which was the same emotion as ours.

彼女はちゃんと年金を払ってはいるけど将来的にもらえるんかなあと不安感を抱いていた。周囲には年金を払ってない友人も複数いるとのこと。就職したら自動的に払うんだけどね。若者が有権者になることほどいいことはない。継続してほしいね。
The university student has certainly paid her pension so far, which fails to mean that she would lead a stable life after she retires at the age of sixty, so she need save her something available to purchase something necessary in the near future, although numerous younger workers feel anxious and uneasy about the current pension systems.
After all, several acquaintances around her haven’t had the significant procedures about their pension, which might make negative contributions to the government in a financial and economic viewpoints and perspectives.
When they should enter the workforce in our society, it would be automatic for them to pay their pensions from their incomes or salaries by their companies, she knows.
In conclusion, we should welcome the fact that numerous university students would employ their voting rights, and we wish they would continue to do these behaviors, so that we cannot fail to force the current government party to change their attitudes towards what they should do.