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MP who resigns from a party must legally be required to stand in a By-Election

Submitted on Wednesday 20th February 2019

Rejected on Friday 22nd February 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

MP who resigns from a party must legally be required to stand in a By-Election

Petition Details

Labour and Conservative MPs have resigned from their parties to form an Independent Group. It should be a legal requirement for politicians who have been elected to their office as a member of a political party to be re-elected in a By-Election in either their new party or as an Independent.


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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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