Submitted on Saturday 12th November 2016
Rejected on Thursday 17th November 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Act as a direct democracy where citizens have the power to trigger referendums
UK to move to a system of direct democracy, or more precisely semi-direct as it will run in parallel with the current parliamentary system, where petitions that reach a certain threshold (e.g. 50,000 signatures) must be put to a public referendum. This would be similar to the current Swiss system
Direct democracy allows any citizen to challenge any law approved by the parliament or propose a new law.
Switzerland has a highly praised system of direct democracy where citizens can oppose laws voted by parliament via a referendum if a petition reaches 50,000 signatures. They can also suggest new laws to vote on via referendum if a petition reaches 100,000 signatures. In addition they have mandatory referendums on anything that would modify their constitution
We should have a similar system
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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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/134642
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