Rejected petition Hold a General Election before the end of 2016.

Rejected on 12 July 2016

With a new PM being appointed and 52% of the electorate voting to leave in the recent referendum in regards to the UK's membership in the European Union, it is important that the electorate has an opportunity to gauge the direction in which they want Brexit negotiations to be headed towards.

Of the population of the UK eligible to vote, (44,722,000 in 2015) only 330 MPs actually got to decide who our next Prime Minister was. That's 0.000737891865% of the population, this is fundamentally wrong and a General Election is the only way we can resolve this.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/133551

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