The first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has announced the arrival of a new one referendum on independence from Great Britain.
The promise had arrived months ago, when immediately after the victory of Brexit at the June 23 consultation, the Scottish Premier had expressed all the opposition of Edinburgh. After the words, however, the facts could come. On the basis of what Sturgeon declared, the parliamentary process will begin next week which will lead to the holding of a referendum bis on the separation from the Mother Country, despite the fact that the Government in London, led by Theresa May, has repeatedly stated that it does not want to authorize a new secessionist consultation.
In a note, the British government states that a similar scenario would cause uncertainty, recalling in parallel that secession was rejected in the 2014 referendum and that the same leadership that vote “unique in a generation”.
But Edinburgh does not seem to agree: “It is important – stated the Premier – that Scotland is able to choose its future at a time when the options are clearer than they are now, but before it is too late to decide our path”. According to Sturgeon, "there is no doubt” that the Scottish National Party has a mandate for a second referendum, following the result of the Brexit referendum last June, in which 62% of Scotland's citizens voted to remain within the European Union. The new referendum could between the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019.
