The objective of the Party of the Scottish Prime Minister is that the country joins the European Union as an independent state.
Le Monde with AFP
Despite the failure of a previous consultation in 2014 and the British government’s refusal to authorize this vote, the Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon, announced on Tuesday, June 28, in the local parliament, wanting to organize a referendum ” advisory “on the independence of the British nation on October 19, 2023.
To organize this referendum, M Me Sturgeon, head of the SNP independence party, must obtain the agreement of the British government which is firmly opposed to it. The Ecossais had already been consulted on the subject in 2014 and had voted 55 % to stay within the United Kingdom.
ready to negotiate with Boris Johnson
Based on this previous vote, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson maintains that such a referendum can only occur “once by generation”. The SNP considers, however, that Brexit has changed the game, the Scottish having opposed 62 %. The objective of the SNP is that Scotland joins the European Union as an independent state.
Nicola Sturgeon said he was ready to negotiate with Boris Johnson but warned that she would not allow “Scottish democracy to be prisoner of Boris Johnson or any Prime Minister”.
Before this speech, Boris Johnson repeated his attachment to the unity of the kingdom. “We certainly think that our plan for a stronger economy works better, when the United Kingdom is united than when it is not,” the conservative leader on British television on the fringes of the G7 said on Tuesday in Germany.