Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament

Rejected petition Change FixedTerms Parliament Act(2011) and call for people's vote on next PM

A General Election petition was made but it was stated that due to the Fixed Terms Parliament Act (2011) elections can only take place every 5 years.
This petition calls for democracy, to change the act so that when PMs resign we the people have a chance to vote for our next PM.

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.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/250152

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