Make political parties manifestos legally binding.
An Independent panel should monitor that the new government follows through on its pre-election promises. If after a period of time the panel decides that the promises are not being kept, then a warning should be issued Following this if its still in breach then a new election must be called.
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- 03 FEB 2025Petition rejectedduplicate
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- 11 DEC 2024Petition created
Background
It's too easy to make promises pre-election which when in power they don't follow up on, and at the moment there's no mechanism for holding them accountable other than waiting 5 years till the next election