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Posted on March 4th 2015
Luka Kos elected Deputy MYP
Luka Kos, Year 12 student and recently elected Deputy Member of Youth Parliament for Croydon, describes his experience election campaign experience…
UK Youth Parliament is a charity that gives opportunities to young people to help make decisions that affect them in their local areas, as well as debate on a more national scale. I decided to run for Youth Parliament back in November and received training on public speaking and advice on how to run a campaign. I had a three week campaign period where I was able to go to youth clubs as well as hold assemblies in this school. It was challenging as I had to prepare speeches and my manifesto, with my main policy being to reform buses by hopefully introducing a more efficient system to prevent people from missing their buses. In the end I managed to collect 869 votes in the Croydon borough, which helped me get elected as the Deputy Member of Youth Parliament for Croydon. A special thanks to Mr McCann for helping making it a reality and for everyone who voted.
Luka Kos
Deputy MYP for Croydon.
Luka is pictured here on the right with Dr Helen Thompson, Reader and University Teaching Officer from the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at Cambridge University, who gave a lecture on International Politics to Academy Sixth Form students.
