Submitted by Anthony Brostrup Chambers on Monday 4th November 2024
Published on Wednesday 20th November 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Tuesday 20th May 2025
Current Signatures: 206
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Tagged with
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Have a General Election every year as requested in 1839 by the Chartist Movement
We think there should be a general election every year on the 1st of July.
In 1839, 1842 and 1848 the Chartists requested 6 changes to our parliamentary system:
- A vote for every man aged twenty-one years and above
- The secret ballot to protect the elector in the exercise of his vote.
- No property qualification for Members of Parliament (MPs)
- Payment of Members
- Equal constituencies
- Annual parliamentary elections
All have been enacted except Annual elections. We think this would enable a more democratic relationship with the voter and help to hold MPs to account.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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