There is panic in the air this final pre-election weekend in Scotland. Saturday 1is May, Angus Robertson passes Green City Councilor in a stairwell in Georgia, a working class area of Edinburgh, west of the political capital of Scotland. “I will be, if he takes our brochures”, The SNP drops the candidate for the constituency of Edinburgh Centre, which has been most contested in the 6 May elections to renew Holyrood, the “evolved” Scottish parliament.
The stake is considerable, on the scale of Scotland as the United Kingdom: if it obtained the majority of seats, ie 65 deputies, the Independence Party – which currently stands at 61 – promised more social support and adequate wages for caregivers. Growth. But, above all, he would have enough legitimacy to demand a second independence referendum in London seven years after 2014. those days, 55.3% of Scots preferred to live in the UK. But since then, Brexit has happened, with Tweed’s reply rejected by 62%, And the situation has changed radically, the SNP wants to believe.
The Greens are not the most dangerous in Edinburgh Centre, a very bourgeois constituency, with pockets of poverty around the city centre. But all voices matter: In 2016, former Scottish Conservatives leader Ruth Davidson stole a spot from the SNP by only 610 votes in advance. She does not represent herself: it is a young Tory councillor, Scott Douglas, who joins the ranks and faces veteran Angus Robertson, former MP at Westminster and former deputy leader of the Independence Party.
Nicola Sturgeon’s Popularity
At the national level, conservatives were faced, whose only argument is to preserve the union (“I want to do everything I can to convince people to avoid a new referendum”, Scottish Tories leader Douglas Ross emphasized again during a press briefing on Friday 30 April), the SNP remains in the lead despite fourteen years in power and a mixed record.
Its leader, Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish First Minister, enjoys unprecedented popularity for her controlled handling of the pandemic. But the legislative campaign has run out of steam so far: the prime minister has run out of journalists, and activists only started going door-to-door in mid-April because of health restrictions. According to a summary of polls conducted by the BBC between 23 and 30 April, elections have been weak in recent weeks, giving the SNP only one additional seat advantage on 6 May.
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