Submitted on Sunday 10th July 2016
Rejected on Friday 15th July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make the Prime Minister directly elected.
Your next Prime Minister will be chosen by a poll of just 150,000 Conservative Party members only. Support any or no other party and you have no vote on who leads the UK until the next Parliamentary Election on Thursday 7th May 2020. This petition calls for direct elections of Prime Minsters.
44,722,000 people have the right to vote. Since the war six Prime Ministers have taken the post unelected and three of them (Alec Douglas-Home, James Callaghan and Gordon Brown) never ever secured a mandate from the voting public. Sign this petition if you believe all voters should have the right to vote for the next Prime Minister. If it reaches 10,000 the government has to respond to you. If it reaches 100,000 your views may be debated in Parliament - 1m votes and you simply can't be ignored.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/119095
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