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Residency and age qualifications for parliamentary candidates

Submitted on Wednesday 6th August 2014

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

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Residency and age qualifications for parliamentary candidates

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In order to make MPs more representative of their constituents and to increase the experience of real life that an MP brings to the Commons two measures should be introduced:
1. Any candidate for a parliamentary election must have a minimum residency in the constituency equal to or greater than the maximum period between elections + 1 month.
2. Any candidate satisfying the above should also have a minimum age of 25 years at the time of the election.


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