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Automatic by-election if MPs resign from their current party

Submitted on Tuesday 19th February 2019

Rejected on Friday 22nd February 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Automatic by-election if MPs resign from their current party

Petition Details

If a Member of Parliament decides to leave the party they were elected under, then they should be required to call a by-election and stand as an independent or for another party.

Additional Information

Due to the recent resignations of the seven Labour MPs who have just resigned from their party and 18th February 2019, it should be law that there is an automatic by-election and let the constituency decided whom and what party they now want to represent them in Parliament


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This petition was rejected

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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