{"links":{"self":"https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/160676.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":160676,"parliament":{"period":"2015-2017","government":"Conservative","dissolution_at":"2017-05-03T00:01:00.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Hold a general election upon the resignation of the prime minister.","background":"With the resignation of past prime ministers, new ones have been put into office by their party voting to put a person in power.\r\n\r\nIn many instances it is a person that is unpopular by large percentages of the pop, and would never have been voted in normally.","additional_details":"In the last century, prime ministers that were unelected and we're never the public choices have been as follows.\r\n\r\nGordon Brown. John Major. James Callaghan to name a few.\r\n\r\nIn every instance bar 1 (John Major), at the next election they were voted out of office because of their unpopularity and bad policies.\r\n\r\nThere should be a law and statute to hold a general election upon a prime minister resignation.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":0,"created_at":"2016-07-11T17:08:50.065Z","updated_at":"2017-09-09T06:18:20.025Z","rejected_at":"2016-07-11T18:21:30.571Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":null,"response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_on":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":"https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/137376\r\n"},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}