@VD15 Keep going with the petition. Don't know about you, but I didn't think you'd get anything else from your government as a response. The actual tiny amount of hope comes from the Parliament being forced to debate things.
Not much is likely going to happen the first time around, which is why I said this will likely necessitate someone else making another petition similar to this. And another. And another.
Force them to redebate this topic again and again, until they either give in, or they shutdown the government petition site. At which point, the public has another avenue of attack against the government, showing it for the authoritarian dictator it's trying to become.