Submitted on Thursday 4th April 2019
Rejected on Thursday 18th April 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Allow British citizens living outside of the UK for more than 15 years, to vote.
I am a British citizen, married to an Italian, living in Brussels. I do not have a right to vote in the UK despite this being my only nationality.
I left the UK at 22 to work in Vietnam for the British charity VSO. Then I worked for the British Council in Vietnam and China.
My husband, an EU official, and I have lived outside of the UK since 1996 so I cannot vote in the UK. The UK ignores the human right to vote for which our ancestors fought so hard,has been taken away from me because I am a British citizen who dared to follow the European dream and right of free movement.
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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.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/252711
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