Leicester Mercury published Website calling for referendum on electing Leicester mayor opens

A website for a campaign calling for a referendum on electing a mayor went live yesterday.

Businessman Callum McKeefery is leading calls for a vote to see whether the system introduced in Leicester in May 2010 should be kept or scrapped.

1. Callum McKeefery is leading calls for a vote to see whether the system introduced in Leicester in May 2010 should be kept or scrapped

Mr McKeefery, who owns a bar and nightclub in the city centre and has internet companies, launched his campaign because of his opposition to Sir Peter Soulsby's plans to turn St Nicholas Place into a ?4 million public plaza, called Jubilee Square.

Mr McKeefery, who has a bar in St Nicholas' Place, said: "The website is up and running. We have still got some work to do on it but we have already had people looking at it."

The website asks people to submit their addresses so they can be sent a petition to collect or sign. Online submissions will not count.

If 12,000 names are collected, it will trigger a referendum.

Last night, deputy mayor Rory Palmer said: "I don't want to give this website too much publicity but, having looked at it for a couple of minutes, I'm struggling to see these so-called compelling arguments for a referendum."

www.leicesterpetition.co.uk

Source: http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Website-calling-referendum-electing-Leicester/story-17327401-detail/story.html

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