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Amend the Restriction of Prime Minister of calling elections in the FTPA (2011)

Submitted on Wednesday 25th September 2019

Rejected on Monday 30th September 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Amend the Restriction of Prime Minister of calling elections in the FTPA (2011)

Petition Details

The Fixed Term Parliament Act removed the ability of the PM to call an election without Parliamentary consent. With a time of crisis such as now, the Fixed Term Parliament Act must be amended so the Prime Minister can call an Election.

Additional Information

The referenced crisis is the Brexit crisis and the Constitutional Crisis ongoing at this current moment in time


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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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