Rejected petition: Ban Resigning MPs from Restanding
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When an MP resigns from parliament there is a costly process of a byelection funded by the taxpayer.
If an MP who resigns from parliament intends to restand, we believe this is an unnecessary and avoidable expense.
We would like the house to vote on barring MPs who resign from restanding.
When an MP resigns from parliament, a costly process of a byelection is triggered at the expense of the taxpayer.
If an MP who resigns from parliament intends to restand, we believe this is an unnecessary and avoidable expense. Where there are cases of an individual restanding where they have not chosen to trigger the process (e.g. expulsion from party), this would not apply.
We would like the house to vote on barring MPs who resign from restanding for a period of 2 years.
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.
You may wish to sign this petition, which calls for similar action: “Prevent MPs who resign their seat from standing for re-election for 12 months” https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/776390
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.