BEING positive helped student Adam Englebright win two elections for young people.
Adam, from Turners Hill, won a seat for Haywards Heath in the West Sussex Youth Cabinet and will also represent Mid Sussex in the UK Youth Parliament after winning the Horsham and Mid Sussex seat from 13 candidates.
Adam, a student at Oathall C
ommunity College in Haywards Heath, is now preparing for his first youth cabinet meeting on Monday, March 9, at County Hall, Chichester.
Meetings of the youth parliament are held at various venues across the country and the county council pays representatives for their expenses.
Election manager Daliha Belloul, 18, explained that because Adam won both the youth parliament seat and the Haywards Heath youth cabinet seat, another seat at county hall was created, effectively giving Haywards Heath three voices at the youth cabinet.
Adam said: "I am really glad to have won."
Other local members of the youth cabinet elected are Burgess Hill – Luke Farley and Phillipe Davis; Hassocks – Maggie Lambo and Nicole Willis; Haywards Heath – Jonty Field and Omar Mohamed.
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