Nicola Sturgeon, Prime Minister of Scotland, said today, Friday, that she won't call for a referendum on independence from the United Kingdom (UK) at once.
She stressed that she seeks at first to reassure the recovery of the Corona pandemic.
Sturgeon added during an interview with the BBC that it isn't suitable to propose a referendum at the present time.
The Scottish Premier affirms that she wants an independent Scotland but she should the country during the crisis of Coronavirus.
It is worth noting the National party led by Nicola Sturgeon pledged to mount a new referendum on independence by the end of 2023 if it wins the majority of votes over the legislative elections scheduled on May 6.
On the other hand, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on the Scottish nationalists to stop talking indefinitely about holding another referendum on independence from the United Kingdom (UK).
He stressed on January 28, that he doesn’t think it is the right thing to do is to talk endlessly about another referendum when he sees that what the country and the people of Scotland in particular want is to fight this pandemic.
But Sturgeon has been calling for months to hold a new referendum on self-determination to attain independence from the UK.
Opinion polls indicate that independents will win this referendum, which the Prime Minister intends to organize after the Corona pandemic if the local elections that will be held in May lead to an independent majority in the Scottish Parliament.
The polls suggest that the Scottish National Party will achieve a big victory in this poll.
Johnson strongly opposes a new referendum in Scotland, noting that its citizens voted 55 percent in 2014 to remain in the United Kingdom.
However, Prime Minister of Scotland has said that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is afraid of democracy when it comes to the Scottish independence referendum from London.
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