Submitted on Saturday 20th February 2016
Rejected on Monday 22nd February 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Extend Brexit referendum voting right to ALL UK citizens resident outside the UK
At the moment only those United Kingdom citizens who have been resident outside the UK for LESS than 15 years have a right to vote. There are many more who have been living in EU countries as native English speakers for longer AND with a job pre-requisite of citizen of an EU Member State.
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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/112142
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