Scotland’s yes campaign to begin in May

Speaking with the BBC’s Sunday Politics programme, Salmond underlined the significance of providing the Scottish people with answers to all of their open questions regarding what an independent Scotland would be like.

“I think it is important when we come to the referendum in 2014 people will have an exact proposition on independence, which I pledge to give. All of the questions (will be) answered to people’s satisfaction,” said Salmond.

Salmond also emphasized that Scotland would hold the referendum in autumn 2014 and the reason why the campaign is planned to be launched two years earlier is that those who campaign against Scotland’s independence seem to be bent on securing a No vote.

“The people who seem to argue for a no seem to be in no fit position to argue their case. They don’t even know what their case is,” said Salmond.

Salmond promised that the yes campaign will be launched after Scotland’s local elections in May. Furthermore, he announced that the campaign would include more parties than just the Scottish National Party, which won an unprecedented majority in the Scottish Parliament last year.

“That will be a broad-based campaign with civic Scotland, job creators of Scotland, with the unions of Scotland, a variety of people coming together to enunciate the case for Scotland,” he said.

Moreover, countering the arguments made by those opponents who raise concerns over Scotland’s European Union membership, Salmond said an independent Scotland would remain a successor state to the EU and would not apply for a new membership.

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