This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition The people of the U.K. should be given the opportunity for a general election
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With the new news of Britain leaving the European Union the electorate should be given the full opportunity to vote the next government in now. The next prime minister should not be simply parachuted in without the population approving.
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.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/133548
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