Scotland: poll shows 52% want to know …

The Prime Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, promised to organize a new referendum to determine if they leave the UK in the event of winning the May elections to renew the local parliament. The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, the only one able to legally convene a new popular consultation on the subject, has already spoken out against.

“I want a legal referendum this is what I am going to ask for in May the authority of the Scottish people and if they grant it to me then what I intend to do is hold a legal referendum to give the people the right Whether it’s democracy It’s not what I want or Boris Johnson, “the current Scottish head of government said in an interview with the BBC.

Sturgeon made the promise the same day the UK Sunday Times newspaper published a poll claiming that 52% of Scots support independence.

In 2014, a popular consultation took place in which 55% of Scots voted against leaving the UK. The main argument of the voters was that when they became independent they would be outside the European Union.

However, two years later Brexit triumphed at the polls, with an overwhelming number of English votes. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, the majority of people voted against leaving the European Union.

The Scottish Prime Minister argues that with the majority of the country speaking out against Brexit, they should hold another referendum on Scottish independence.

For its part, Boris Johnson He has already spoken out against a new popular consultation because, he argued, it is an event that occurs “once in a generation” and that it should take at least 40 years before calling a vote on the issue.

“He is afraid of democracy Sturgeon fired during the BBC interview. When I hear Boris Johnson talk about it, he reminds me of (Robert) Burns’ poem: “ Fearful and cowardly little animal, what a panic is in you, little animal ”

The Scottish National Party (SNP, according to its acronym in English), led by the Prime Minister, presented this Saturday a “road map” to organize the plebiscite. For SNP authorities, the UK government has three options for approving the ballot: accepting the Scottish Parliament to have jurisdiction to hold the referendum under Scottish law 1998; give their active authorization to vote or call a referendum in court.

The poll published by the Sunday Times also indicates that independence aspirations are most evident in Northern Ireland. The Republican Party seeks to propose a plebiscite to achieve Irish unification and return to the European Union.