Rejected petition Amend the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act so that a General Election may be called.

The Governments response to a recent online petition calling for a general election was “the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act means no Government can call an early general election any more”

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While prevision exists in the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act to call a new general election. There is no prevision to allow the people of the nation to call for a General Election only the current government.

Therefore we call for amendments to the law to be passed so that the people have the power to remove the government.

This petition was rejected

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/118616

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 18 April 2016
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