Submitted on Wednesday 5th December 2018
Rejected on Wednesday 12th December 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Immediately restore UK voting rights to disenfranchised ex-pat UK citizens.
Voting rights expire currently after 15 years of living outside the UK. Various promises to restore these rights have been made in recent years but nothing has been done towards repealing the current legislation imposing this undemocratic restriction.
The Brexit deal currently being debated in parliament will culminate in a decisive vote due to be taken by parliament on 11th December. Given the discord across the House it is likely that this will fail. The consequences arising from that may require another referendum or a general election; either of these would benefit from the inclusion of the currently disenfranchised ex-pats and from which they are currently debarred.
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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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