Submitted on Friday 8th July 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 13th July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Call a General Election due to Prime Minister resignation
This petition is about democracy and no single political issue.
It is our view that should an incumbent Government Leader resign as Prime Minister and Leader of their party, this should trigger a General Election within a pre-defined period of time.
This may be considered as an amendment to the Fixed Term Parliaments Act.
Current debate regarding the trigger of Article 50 for withdrawal of the EU is perhaps a good example of a decision beginning a time restricted process. It may be a similar such process could be applied, for example a PM resignation triggers a process during which the newly elected PM must call a General Election within 1 year of taking up post.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
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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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/139869
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