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08 May 2021Determination and patience in the service of the independence of Scotland have characterized the political battle of the Scottish Prime Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. Bolstered by local election results, she hopes to see her lifelong dream come true: that Scotland become an independent country.

The victory for the Scottish separatists was there but without an absolute majority. The Scottish National Party (SNP) won the elections for the renewal of Parliament which were held on Thursday. According to official results, it obtained 64 seats, one less than the absolute majority of 65, so the Scottish premier and leader of the SNP called for a second referendum on independence.

Sturgeon believes that after "the extraordinary result" in the elections "there is no longer any democratic justification" for the refusal of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson or anyone else to deny a new referendum on Scottish independence. The result of the elections shows that one cannot try "to block the right of the Scottish people to choose their future". Regarding the referendum, he specified that "it is the will of the country. In no way can a referendum be described only as a request of mine or of the SNP". Sturgeon then added that "when the Covid crisis is over" he will work "to give the Scots the right to choose their future".

Sadiq Khan, the Pakistani-born Muslim Laborer who has ruled London for the past 5 years, will be re-elected for a new term. This is what is shown by the BBC projections having prevailed on the conservative Shaun Bailey.

In the Labor Party, defeated by the "Super Thursday" in the United Kingdom, the showdown begins: the 'number two', Angela Rayner, has been removed from the presidency of the party and from the role of coordinator of the election campaign. It falls, so the first head in the party. Yesterday, leader Keir Starmer said he was "bitterly disappointed" by the outcome of the vote in the local elections. Rayner pays for the choice of having wanted Paul Williams, the candidate who came out clearly defeated in the by-election of Hartlepool, the stronghold that had always voted for Labor since it was created in 1974.