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Make it a legal requirement for a by-election when an MP defects their party.

Submitted on Wednesday 20th February 2019

Rejected on Friday 22nd February 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make it a legal requirement for a by-election when an MP defects their party.

Petition Details

MP's are elected to be the constituencies representative of a particular political party, if they defect to a different political party or go Independent, they no longer represent the constituencies political party and a by-election should be a legal requirement.


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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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