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(MENAFN - The Conversation) Legislation is currently making its way through the UK parliament to repeal the controversial fixed-term parliaments act , which sets the period between general elections at five years and limits the prime minister s power to trigger an election earlier.
An earlier election is possible if two thirds of MPs vote for it or if the government loses a vote of confidence among MPs.
The 2011 act was passed under the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government of 2010-2015. Its immediate aim was maintaining the coalition s stability but it also had a more principled long-term objective of ending the governing party s ability to call an election for its own advantage. Then deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said the act would remove the right of a Prime Minister to seek the Dissolution of Parliament for pure political gain … for the first time … the timing of general elections will no
Legislation is currently making its way through the UK parliament to repeal the controversial fixed-term parliaments act, which
sets the period between general elections at five years and limits the prime minister’s power to trigger an election earlier.
An earlier election is possible if two thirds of MPs vote for it or if the government loses a vote of confidence among MPs.
The 2011 act was passed under the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government of 2010-2015. Its immediate aim was maintaining the coalition’s stability but it also had a more principled long-term objective of ending the governing party’s ability to call an election for its own advantage. Then deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said the act would “remove the right of a Prime Minister to seek the Dissolution of Parliament for pure political gain … for the first time … the timing of general elections will not be a plaything of governments”.