Submitted on Sunday 2nd June 2013
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
MPs leaving the parliamentary parties to which they were elected, should legally trigger a by-election.
Eric Joyce & Patrick Mercer have both been forced to leave the parliamemtary parties to which they were elected, but have refused resign their seats in parliament.
We, the undersigned, consider this to be a democratic deficit, as their constituents voted for them as candidates affiliated to a political party to which they no longer belong. We believe that a by-election should be automatically triggered when MPs leave or are dismissed from the parliamentary party to which they were elected.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
3.138.113.188 Tue, 07 May 2024 06:36:04 +0100
