Submitted on Saturday 25th June 2016
Rejected on Thursday 30th June 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Only 37.4% actually voted to leave the EU. Parliament should vote to decide.
In the EU referendum, 17,410,742 people voted to leave, of a registered electorate of 46,500,001. This constitutes only 37.44% of the electoral population. Therefore it is NOT A MAJORITY mandate. Since the referendum is also only advisory, parliament instead should now vote whether or not to leave.
Only a minority of the electoral population voted to leave the EU - 37.4435%. Therefore, the decision to leave the EU and enact Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty should instead rest with a parliamentary vote, as the people's elected representatives in HM government.
Precedence can be found in the 1979 Scotland Devolution referendum; because less than 40% of the electorate voted for devolution, it could not be enacted.
We, the undersigned, demand ALL MPs vote whether or not to leave the EU.
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