London (EFE)
In statements this Sunday to the BBC public television channel, the leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) opined that Scotland “is suffering” currently because it is not independent.
“We are suffering because we have an economic model of Westminster (the seat of the British Parliament), a failed economic model that hurts our people and a stagnant economy, which rarely grows because of the economic catastrophe that Westminster has imposed on Scotland,” he said.
Call a new consultation from 2024
As he already said yesterday in the framework of a special SNP conference, if his party achieves a majority of seats in the next general elections -scheduled for 2024-, he could begin to negotiate with the Government in London about calling a new consultation.
“The Party that wins the majority of seats, of course, wins the general elections,” Yousaf said, while lamenting that right now they are being “denied” the option of being able to hold that consultation, despite the fact that there is a “majority pro independence in the Scottish Parliament.
In the absence of a second plebiscite, Yousaf believes that “the next way to probe the independence proposal is, of course, with a general election. And the rules of a general election are quite simple.”
“I’m not saying that if you win that election, suddenly Scotland becomes independent. What I am saying is that through democratic and legitimate means, we began a negotiation with the Government of the United Kingdom on how to give that proposition a democratic effect ”, he qualified.