Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament

Rejected petition Allow 16 and 17 year olds the vote in any further referenda on EU membership.

With Scottish 16 and 17 year-olds likely to participate in an independence vote as a direct result of Brexit, pegging the EU referendum voting age to more trivial citizenship rights such as drinking and betting is inappropriate. School leavers should have their say on a decision of this magnitude.

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.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/119769

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