The Scottish Prime Minister says the country is poised for a place in the independent family

Nicola Sturgeon opened the work of the congress, held this year virtually due to covid-19 and dedicated to the question “who should have the choice of Scotland’s future?”.

Nicola Sturgeon’s statements go in the same direction as those he recently spoke to the BBC, in which he did not rule out that the consultation for independence was “at the beginning of the new legislature, in May 2021”.

The SNP holds this 86th annual poll-supported conference for the upcoming regional elections, which will take place on 6 May next year and which Nicola Sturgeon considers “the most important elections of Scottish democracy”.

Since May, according to several polls, the ‘yes’ option has dominated Scottish society, hitting an all-time high of 58% of the population in favor, according to the October IPSO Mori.

In the referendum on independence, held in 2014, the “no” won, with 55.3% of the votes, against 44.7% of “yes”.

However, there is no “plan b” to avoid the veto that the UK has submitted to the issue of independence.

“The conference could have been more interesting, but the motions tabled for discussion were rejected by the party leadership,” said Angus MacNeil, MP for the Hebrides in Westminster, criticizing the absence of an internal debate on policies for implementation. of the new referendum.

The National Executive Committee refused to host this discussion on how to deal with a possible ‘no’ in London, citing the virtual logistics in which it takes place. Instead, there will be a National Assembly, convened by the party’s vice president, Keith Brown, on January 21st.

Boris Johnson’s executive has refused twice this year to hold a new referendum, first in early 2020, when Sturgeon requested the transfer of powers from section 30 of the 1998 Treaty of Scotland, and then when the Secretary of State for Scotland, Alister Jack, said in a BBC interview that it would not happen “for the next 25 or 40 years”.