Submitted on Monday 16th December 2024
Rejected on Tuesday 25th February 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ensure the 2025 UK local elections go ahead without restrictions
Multiple council and unitary authority elections are due to take place on 1st May 2025. There is a possibility the current government will make a unilateral decision to cancel or postpone those elections. This petition aims to trigger a debate in Parliament on whether the elections should proceed.
To uphold parliamentary democracy in the UK and prevent any acting government from independently changing scheduled elections without the consensus of all serving MPs.
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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.
You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:
Do not postpone the local elections
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/710155
18.188.1.121 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:13:05 +0000
