Rejected petition Hold a general election in order to break the deadlock in Parliament

A huge number of people of the UK feel that Parliament is no longer representative of the people and has proven to be dysfunctional. We now have a situation where the executive is unable to pass any legislation or resolve the Brexit issue and the economy and social cohesion are now at severe risk

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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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Date submitted 21 October 2019
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