Snap election postpones AMII's IPT petition

The election has meant that parliament will be dissolved on 3 May 2017 and all parliamentary business - including petitions - must stop on that date until after the election, which will take place on 8 June. The AMII will need to begin the campaign, including collecting existing and new signatures from scratch, at a later date. Originally the IPT petition, launched in April 2017, was to remain open for a period of six months to 5 October 2017, during which time, AMII had to gain 100,000 signatories in order for the petition to be debated in Parliament. To date, the petition has receiv...