This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition Call a general election so that the next prime minister is democratically chosen
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At a time of political crisis it is clearly not democratic for the Prime Minister to be chosen only by the Conservative party membership, particularly as they are in no way representative of the electorate as a whole.
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/264215
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