This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Change of PM mid term should trigger general election
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A prime minister who has won a general election has a personal electoral mandate as well as a party mandate for government. The resignation or defenestration of an elected PM with more than a year of office remaining should trigger an automatic general election.
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/137376
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