In some countries I believe that the set of people who runs political affairs are the old ones and is really worrisome, talking about age range 70yrs and above.
This is a problem all over the world, it's just that some countries have a larger percentage of elderly people participating in politics than other countries. The youth consider politics boring and that's why they don't partake. They'll prefer to go to protest that's will be dangerous because it can be fun and filled with chaos. Whenever a politician can convince the youths and make them pick interest in voting he always win and we saw that when Barrack Obama used the youths to win his first election. The youth are mostly interested in what's trending but the old ones care about the future of their children and they want politicians that can give those they'll be leaving behind a better life. Also the old ones don't have anything taking their time so they have free time and can seat at those campaign rally and listen to what the politicians have to say. Politics is supposed to be for everyone and the sooner the younger generation begin to realized that, the better for them unless they aren't ready to vote in the people that can lead their country forward. For the youths to pick interest in politics, I feel we need younger politicians as they will be able to relate with them more than the old folks. At the moment we have more old folks as frontrunners and this is discouraging the youths from participating in politics.