Scotland: separatists win key election and want another referendum on their independence

EDINBURGH.- Scottish separatists SPN, popular Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon, won the local Parliament election with 64 seats, an absolute majority seat, giving them a fourth consecutive term and opens the doors to your request for a referendum on the independence of your country, according to the results known this Saturday.

“There is simply no democratic justification for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, or anyone else, to try to block the right of the Scottish people to choose their own future,” Sturgeon said in his victory speech.

Another party, the Greens, also in favor of a separation from the UK, won eight seats, representing a majority in favor of independence, while the Conservatives of the British Prime Minister’s party secured the second position with 31 seats.

“There seems to be no doubt that there will be a pro-independence majority in this parliament.”the Scottish Prime Minister added, referring to green environmentalists. “It is the will of this country,” Sturgeon added, warning that any move by the Conservatives to prevent a new referendum would place them “In direct opposition to the will of the people and would show that the UK is not an equal partnership.”

The United Kingdom is a unitary state made up of four nations: Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland.

Two days after “Super Thursday” local elections in the UK, the results are gradually coming. In England, they are so far positive for the conservatives in power, and the British Prime Minister easily passed the test, snatching seats in traditionally Labor territory, especially a prized northeast stronghold, Hartlepool.

Johnson, who is the one who must authorize the Scottish independence referendum, strongly opposes it, arguing that such a consultation this can only be done once per generation.

During the referendum of In 2014, 55% of Scottish voters voted to stay in the UK. “I think a referendum in the current context is irresponsible and recklessJohnson told the newspaper The telegraph. But supporters of a new referendum point out that Brexit, which 62% of Scots opposed, made a difference. Yet Sturgeon plays the card of caution, pledging to hold a referendum “on time”, once the health crisis is over.

On the other hand, at the national level, and despite a series of scandals on the close links between power and private interests, Johnson managed to maintain the lead the Tories won in the 2019 parliamentary election in the so-called Labor ‘red wall’, the regions of northern England affected by deindustrialisation and favorable to Brexit.

For its part, the Labor Party is baffled after the defeat of Hartlepool which left party leader Keir Starmer “bitterly disappointed”.

Starmer has vowed to do “everything possible” to regain the confidence of voters.

The work can boast of very good results in Wales, where they retain control of the local parliament, which allows them to remain in power. Labor Joanne Anderson, 47, was elected mayor of Liverpool (northern England), thus becoming the first black woman to be elected head of a major British city. At London, Labor Sadiq Khan, who in 2016 was the first Muslim to rule a major western capital, is considered favorite for a second term against the conservative Shaun Bailey, but the results expected Saturday are announced tighter than expected.

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