Submitted on Saturday 18th May 2019
Rejected on Wednesday 29th May 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Allow All UK citzens living abroad for more than 15 years to vote.
In the Brexit referendum UK citizens like myself who have lived outside the UK for more than 15 years were not allowed to vote in the referendum (or for that matter in any General Election) despite being a UK tax payer and working for a UK company and intending to return to the UK.
This exclusion is almost unique to the UK with France and the United States allowing all citizens a vote irrespective of where they live or how long they have lived outside home country.
This is not a difficult issue to address and would simply require this out of date restriction to be removed. there have been moves by previous parliaments to address this but legislation has not been passed.
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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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