Rejected petition Amend Fixed-term Parliament Act General election within 6 months if PM resigns.

In previous Labour and current Conservative governments new Prime Ministers have presumed their position without mandate for their own manifesto in a general election. This is undemocratic assuming representation of the UK electorate without their own manifesto being judged in a general election.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/182433

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Date submitted 18 February 2017
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