Is the unity of the United Kingdom really threatened?
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Nicola Sturgeon during her campaign in Giffnock, west of Glasgow, Scotland on April 28, 2021. REUTERS - POOL
By: Guillaume Naudin Follow
31 min
We are voting today in Great Britain.
48 million voters are called to the polls to renew local assemblies.
Several ballots will be particularly followed, in particular the Scottish regional parliament elections.
The SNP separatists led by Nicola Sturgeon hope to remain in the majority.
They would especially like to win an absolute majority of votes, to be able to push for a new referendum project on Scottish independence.
The previous one had failed, but since Brexit has passed this way and Scotland, which did not want to leave the European Union, is asking questions.
Is the unity of the United Kingdom really threatened?
This is the question of the day.
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To discuss it
Edwige Camp-Pietrain
, professor of British civilization at the Hauts-de-France polytechnic university in Valenciennes).
Author of "Scotland and the Temptation of Independence. The Self-Determination Referendum of 2014" (Septentrion) and "The Impossible Scottish Independence?"
(Atland).
Fiona Simpkin
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Senior
Lecturer in Anglophone Studies at Lumière Lyon-2 University.
Specialist in the Scottish question and contemporary British politics Telephone
Annie Thiec
, lecturer at the University of Nantes in British civilization, specialist in the Scottish question
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