Make ‘crimes against democracy’ punishable by law

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Brexit has revealed numerous MPs acting against the will of their electorate, disregarding Parliamentary laws and procedures or acting while being criminally sentenced. There should be a legal mechanism banning them from staying in the Parliament, thus protecting democracy and avoiding deadlocks.

In order to protect the democratic process and avoid frustrating deadlocks in the Parliament, MPs acting against their pledges or the will of their electorate (records of both can be easily checked), acting on personal views, should be reprimanded on administrative level by being formally warned about the undemocratic nature of their actions and then removed from the Parliament until next GE. MPs having criminal convictions should be barred from the Parliament immediately for at least ten years.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

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Timeline

11 Apr 2019	Petition opened for signatures
13 May 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 13 May 2019

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