Submitted on Sunday 26th June 2016
Rejected on Monday 4th July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Allow all British expatriates to vote in any future UK referendums
In the recent 2016 referendum on EU membership, British expatriates who had been living abroad for more than 15 years were excluded from voting on a referendum that, in many cases, would directly impact their quality of life, this arbitrary 15 year ruling was both unjust and undemocratic.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government has said that it does have plans to change this rule. It's therefore not clear what action you would like the Government to take that is different from what it is already doing.
You can find more information in the Government's response to this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/112142
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