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If a Prime Minister resigns or is deposed, automatically trigger a Snap Election

Submitted on Tuesday 30th July 2019

Rejected on Wednesday 31st July 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

If a Prime Minister resigns or is deposed, automatically trigger a Snap Election

Petition Details

It is unfair for the members of political parties to choose the next Prime Minister on behalf of the rest of the country. If the PM has resigned or has been deposed it is a matter of national importance, not merely party. It is undemocratic to simply enforce a new PM without public backing.

Additional Information

Gordon Brown taking over as Labour leader and subsequently PM was wildly undemocratic, as was pointed out by current Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has done exactly the same thing himself, after Theresa May was also defaulted into the position of PM but did not call an election for many months after her entry into power.


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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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