Rejected petition Recall MPs that refuse to represent constituents or renege manifesto commitments

401 of 632 MP's constituencies voted to leave the European Union on the 23/06/2016. Political party's / MP's stood on manifesto commitments to honour the referendum result. Having failed to represent their constituents, the people should have the power to recall their representative MP.

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Section 1 and 7 - 11 of the recall of MP act of 2015 should be amended to allow constituents to recall their respective MP if they no longer represent their constituents views or renege on manifesto commitments to provide a right to recourse.

The existing mechanism, whereby if 10% of constituents sign a petition which is presented to the electoral returning officer for said constituency a by-election should be trigged.

This petition was rejected

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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/236800

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

Date submitted 27 February 2019
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