Rejected petition Government to resign and call election. Major parties to stand on pro EU agenda

The result of the EU referendum exposes the UK to financial risks that will impact every citizen. It may also lead to a greatly destabalized Europe with the prospect of a rise in far right and left politics that could put an end to the peace that Europe has enjoyed for many decades.

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Whilst William Healy's petition calling for a second referendum is admirable, despite gaining over 4M signatures, there appears to be no legal basis for going down this route and only a general election could lead to a proper mandate to ignore the referendum result. We call on Tory, Labour, Lib Dem and the SNP parliamentarians to support a pro European stance.

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The House of Commons is able to trigger an early General Election if criteria set out in the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 are met.

The following petition calls for an early General Election in the wake of the EU referendum result:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/133548

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

Date submitted 30 June 2016
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