July 3 () –
A survey in Scotland has indicated that the country’s voters are divided over plans to hold a second independence referendum in October next year, a date proposed by Scotland’s chief minister, Nicola Sturgeon, last Tuesday.
The latest polls – carried out by the Panelbase company exclusively for the newspaper ‘The Sunday Times’ – have indicated this Saturday that 44 percent of voters would be against the desire to hold the referendum in October 2023, while that 43 percent would have been in favor.
In addition, 10 percent of the people consulted would have said that they neither support nor oppose the referendum. Three percent have declared that they did not know the answer.
On the question of whether or not these voters would support independence, 48 per cent seconded it and 47 per cent disapproved of a UK split.
Sturgeon said after the announcement of the plans that she is prepared to negotiate with Westminster the conditions of how the long-awaited consultation should be held, but what she will “never” be willing to do is let “Scottish democracy be a prisoner of Boris Johnson or of any other prime minister.
As he did a couple of weeks ago during the presentation of the new campaign to disassociate himself from London and the report entitled ‘Independence in the modern world’, he stressed that the holding of the referendum must be legal, for which he will also address the Court Supreme to know his opinion.
However, 75 per cent of those polled have said they believe UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will continue to reject the idea of a vote. Almost half of the people consulted — 46 percent — have thought that Johnson should allow it.
Likewise, 19 percent have said that they do not know which result would be more likely to come out after the subsequent counting of the votes.
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