Submitted on Wednesday 28th September 2022
Rejected on Friday 7th October 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ensure that a Prime Minister is elected by General Election or ballot of MPs.
When a replacement leader of the Party of Government is required this shall be by secret ballot of that parties MPs. Should the party of government attempt to hold a ballot of members to indicate their choice of leader this should trigger a General Election within 6 weeks.
Our last 3 Prime Ministers have come into office after an election by party members. In a Parliamentary Democracy voters elect a member of parliament to represent their interests and follow the mandate received by their party. It is undemocratic for a Prime Minister to be selected other than by a vote of MP’s or by a General Election.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.
Decisions about how party leaders are chosen are a matter for individual political parties, not the UK Government or Parliament.
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
If a Prime Minister resigns a general election should be called: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/620016
Impose new requirements on replacing the Prime Minister and subsequent election: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/623200
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