Rejected petition Delay or bring forward the EU Referendum to avoid clashing with EURO 2016

Rejected on 26 February 2016

This is a hugely important event for the people of the UK, and we have a record 3 teams from the UK participating. Football is our national sport with thousands of families expected to travel to the tournament in France.

Though they may be able to arrange a proxy or postal vote, this process is not easy for people that should be given every possible encouragement to vote.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/122388

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