Nicola Sturgeon He was an unknown figure to the British until in the 2015 general election he participated in a debate on television with the conservative David Cameron and the labor ed miliband. The audience discovered a sober woman, concise in her answers, with a great ability to communicate her ideas and make herself understood in clear and simple language. A performance well above that of the rest of the participants. That night, at the end of the debate, the question “can I vote for the SNP if I live in England?” It became number one in Google searches. It had been only four months since he had succeeded at the head of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNPsin its acronym in English) to alex salmond.
Sturgeon, 52, has turned the policy and the scotland independence in the common thread of his life. A goal in which he has failed. She grew up in the town of Irvine, on the Scottish coast of North Ayrshire, with a younger sister. Her father was an electrician and her mother a laboratory technician, as well as a councilor for the SNP. The teenager joined the party at the age of 16 horrified to see the social disaster that the coming to power of Margaret Thatcher. “When she was very young Thatcher he represented everything he considered bad in politics“, he explained. “She was somehow one of the people who motivated me to participate in the campaigns against what she was proposing.”
intimate enemies
From the beginning, the young militant was a rising star, the first in her family to study for a career. She graduated with a law degree from the University of Glasgow and worked as a barrister until joining the newly created Scottish Home Rule Parliament in 1999, winning a seat. The team that she formed as number two for Salmond, the then leader, achieved in 2007 make the SNP the most voted force in Scotland. Both complemented each other perfectly. and she “could tell him when she thought he was wrong,” someone who worked with both has commented. “I have never seen a politician who controls such a variety of arts in politics at such an early age, with such security,” Salmond would write in 2015, acknowledging the talent of the one who held office after the referendum disaster.
Over time, their relationship cooled and ended up breaking up in 2018, when accusations of sexual harassment against Salmond of former employees. Sturgeon refused to come to his aid. He accused her of having organized a plot against her. The former collaborators became intimate enemies. At the end of a trial, painful appearances asking for excuses and giving explanations, the polls showed that Sturgeon had won the game before public opinion. This Wednesday, Salmond, who now leads Alba, a party without any seats, considered the resignation of his rival as “an opportunity to restructure the independence movement“.
critics of detractors
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The chief minister has been accused of being overturned in plans to achieve a second referendum, while neglecting other government matters. The balance of her mandate, in transportation, hospital waiting lists, education, or in the high level of deaths due to drugs, leaves much to be desired, according to her detractors.
Married to Peter Murrell, executive director of the SNP, the marriage is childless. In 2016, Sturgeon suffered an abortion and made it public for this reason: “If you are a woman, particularly in a position of responsibility and do not have children, it is assumed that you are a witch with a cold heart, who has decided to give priority to her career instead of having children.