This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote in a second EU referendum
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Following the decision by a narrow majority of UK citizens on 24th June 2016 to leave the European Union, we want the government to allow our youth - whose lives will be most affected by this decision - to be able to vote in a second EU referendum.
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/133542
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