Rejected petition 100,000 signatures trigger automatic parliamentary debate.

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Petition requesting the government to enact a law requiring any petition receiving 100,000 or more signatures, to automatically be debated and that sufficient time is set aside for this debate, which must be held within six months of attaining 100,000 signatures.

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.

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

Date submitted 5 August 2011
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