This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition Call a general election immediately to prevent an unelected prime minister.
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The next PM will be a person for whom the country has not voted. They will have been “installed” by a Tory membership of a mere 125,000.
This is a minuscule percentage of the population deciding upon a leader for the rest of us.
It’s an affront to democracy and should be immediately resolved.
The evidence is clear; either Jeremy Hunt or Boris Johnson are about to be granted leadership of the Conservative party and by default, the premiership of this country.
This will be decided ONLY by Tory party members, meaning for the second time in three years we will have had an unelected prime minister forced upon us.
This is unacceptable in a parliamentary democracy and must be immediately put to the people in the form of a general election.
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/264215
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.