The BVV is the elected representative body at borough level.
BVV abbreviates Bezirksverordnetenversammlung, or borough assembly. The long phrase in brackets tells you which local election the question means. Connect the terms borough election, BVV and sixteen.
Age is assessed on election day, not at the beginning of the calendar year. Someone who has reached their sixteenth birthday by that day meets the age condition. That alone does not establish full eligibility: citizenship, residence and any legal exclusions also matter.
The other three answers
The choices concern the minimum age to cast a vote.
14
At 14, the BVV voting-age threshold has not been reached. Other ways of participating in politics do not change that electoral threshold.
18
Eighteen is not the minimum age for voting here. It matters for eligibility to stand: becoming a candidate is a different question from casting a vote.
20
Twenty is above the minimum age. Someone meeting the other conditions does not have to wait until their twentieth birthday for a borough election.
The same voting age does not mean identical eligibility.
Current official guidance also sets the voting age for Berlin’s House of Representatives at 16. German citizenship is required there, however. Other EU citizens may additionally be eligible for borough elections. Do not therefore learn the two elections through an outdated difference in voting age.
The official summary generally requires at least three months of continuous residence or predominant presence in Berlin and no court-imposed exclusion from voting. The election authority is the appropriate contact for your own registration, a move or special circumstances. This question tests only the age figure.
Borough election · Voting eligibility · Berlin state election authority ↗Voting for the BVV: 16. Standing as a candidate: separate conditions.
Check age, citizenship and residence separately.
Three words for this question
- die Bezirksverordnetenversammlungborough assembly
- The elected representative body of a Berlin borough, abbreviated BVV.
- wahlberechtigteligible to vote
- Entitled to cast a vote in a particular election.
- wählbareligible to stand
- Eligible to be elected as a candidate.