Scottish National Party

See also: national Party

The Left national Scot (English: National Scottish Party , Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta Na h-Alba ) is the main thing left independence Scottish. Founded in 1934, the party finds popularity since the Années 1970. Since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament, the SNP takes the role of greater opposition party and became in 2007 the first party of Scotland, after five decades of Labor domination.

Since the Years 1990, its figurehead and principal contributor are the Scottish actor Sean Connery. According to him " Scotland must become again an independent nation not because it is different, but just because it is similar to any other small rich country of Europe. "

With the Scottish parliamentary elections of 2007, the Scottish national Party gains the greatest seats number with 47, one moreover than the Workers party.

Elections

Angus, Mike Weir;
  • Banff and Buchan, Alex Salmond;
  • Dundee East, gained on the Ploughing, Stewart Hosie;
  • Moray, Angus Robertson;
  • Na h-Eileanan year Iar (new name of the Isles Western in Scottish Gaelic), district gained on the Ploughing, Angus MacNeil;
  • Perth and Perthshire North, Pete Wishart.
    • with the elections at the Scottish Parliament of 2007 - 33,0% - 47 seats

    Leaders

    • Alexander MacEwan (1934-1936)

    • Andrew Dewar Gibb (1936-1940)
    • William Power (1940-1942)
    • Douglas Young (1942-1945)
    • Bruce Watson (1945-1947)
    • Robert McIntyre (1947-1956)
    • James Halliday (1956-1960)
    • Arthur Donaldson (1960-1969)
    • William Wolfe (1969-1979)
    • Gordon Wilson (1979-1990)
    • Alex Salmond (1990-2000)
    • John Swinney (2000-2004)
    • Alex Salmond (2004 -)

    Common points with the Left Québécois

    Certain politicians of the Québécois Party could compare themselves with the SNP. In political discourses, allusions are made on the common points between Catalonia, Scotland and Quebec.

    However, even if these political parties are posted all as being independence, they did not arrive until now gaining the battle of independence. There can be tensions between the social democrat core and the nationalist core.

    As much the PQ and the SNP has facility to be made elect, as much they have difficulty, until now, to put forward their independence project. The film comfort and the indifference explains, partly, this phenomenon through the Welfare state and the consumer society.

    In the beginning, the SNP was a multiform coalition of dissidents Scot of left and right-hand side. However, it increased while borrowing initially from the left of the Ploughing then towards the line with the conservatives. A similar situation occurred with the Liberal party of Quebec and the National union.

    See too

    External bond

    • Official site of the SNP

    Zh-min-nan: Scot-tē Bîn-cho̍k Tóng

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