behalf of the people of scotland so let's look into the wives in the wherefores with john this to nick mackey who's in the scottish capital at edinburgh welcome nick so despite being the ruling party this the scottish national party went into this election without a majority so what sort of change do they need to give them a mandate to ask for a 2nd independence referendum. well i think the 1st thing to consider is actually if this is how legitimate this vote is anyway if this is the 6th. election we've had for the scottish parliament and if you look at the turnout devoted turnout since $999.00 it's been around 50 percent in the 2021 scottish calm election is going to break breakups we're talking 63 to 64 percent turnout so to scottish nationalist party and see with the greens together the pro independence party. have the majority you know it's highly likely then they actually have legitimacy to at the right time call for a referendum but of course they're going to get a lot of opposition because. it's quite polarized and scotland's the opposition party to get it i think the referendum going

on behalf of the people of scotland so let's look into the whys and wherefores with john this to nick mackey who's in the scottish cup to . welcome nick so despite being the ruling party this the scottish national party went into this election without a majority so what sort of change today needs to give them a mandate to ask for a 2nd independence referendum. well i think the 1st thing to consider is actually if this is how legitimate this vote is anyway if this is the 6th. election we've had for the scottish parliament and if you look at the turnout devoted turnout since 999 be around 50 percent in the 2021 scottish com election is going to great great that we're talking 63 to 64 percent turnout so to scottish national party and see with the greens together the pro independence party. have the majority you know it's highly likely then they actually have legitimacy to the right time call for a referendum but of course they're going to get a lot of opposition because. polarize in scotland so the opposition parties are getting i think the referendum going down and in truth and of course the u

on behalf of the people of scotland so let's look into the wife in the way with john this that nick mackey who's in the scottish cup let welcome nick so despite being the ruling party of us the scottish national party went into this election without a majority so what sort of change do they need to give a mandate to ask for a 2nd independence referendum. well i think the 1st thing to consider is actually if this is how legitimate this vote is anyway if this is the 6th. election we've had for the scottish parliament and if you look at the turnout the voter turnout since $999.00 it's been around 50 percent in the 2021 scottish calm election is going to break records we're talking 63 to 64 percent turnout so if the scottish national party and see with the greens together the true independence party. have the majority you know it's highly likely then they actually have legitimacy to the right time call for a referendum but of course they're going to get a lot of opposition because. it's quite polarized in scotland so the opposition party to get it get the referendum going down the independent