Ensure that all council elections scheduled for 2025 go ahead.

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:

Do not postpone the local elections
Do not postpone the local elections

Timeline

11 Jan 2025	Petition opened for signatures
4 Mar 2025	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 4 Mar 2025

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