Submitted on Saturday 11th January 2025
Rejected on Tuesday 4th March 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ensure that all council elections scheduled for 2025 go ahead.
Ensure that all council elections scheduled for 2025 go ahead, and are not delayed despite requests from councils due to restructuring.
This is to ensure that people have a right to vote and that councils continue to have a democratic mandate from the people.
As there is no clear timeline for all councils on exactly how restructuring would work, elections due for 2025 should go ahead.
Saving money is not an excuse for cancelling elections - because if it was, there would be no elections at all.
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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.
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You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:
Do not postpone the local elections
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/710155
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