This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Hold a second EU referendum and allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote.
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As this referendum was to decide the future of the UK and how it will affect the people living in it, young people should be allow a vote. This is because they will have to live with the decision for the longest period of time. Young people are much more intelligent than society thinks.
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/146255
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/133542
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