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MP’s should not be abstaining on votes.

Submitted on Wednesday 24th November 2021

Rejected on Wednesday 1st December 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

MP’s should not be abstaining on votes.

Petition Details

Members of Parliament should not be allowed to abstain from voting, we are the ones who pay their wages and we expect them to vote on all matters, if they are not voting then they should not be representing the people.

Additional Information

The public vote them in to represent them and expect them to carry out their duties to the full, which includes voting not abstaining.


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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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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/596928

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