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Fundamentally, the aging of political leaders is a global issue. In reality, the average age of parliament members is higher than the average age of voters, and the overrepresentation of middle-aged to elderly men is a clear trend.
This is inevitable to some extent, because politics requires mobilizing campaign support, which costs a significant amount of money
[1]https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.128...
[2]https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-political-s...