On Thursday,  's First Minister and  (SNP) leader , , set the date September 18, 2014, for the country's referendum on political independence from the rest of the  . The question to be presented at the ballot is: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"; if a majority vote "Yes", the union of the parliaments, in-place since 1707, will come to an end. Graph charting opinion on the referendum from several surveys undertaken during the past year. According to the (ABC), the SNP believe Scotland would be more prosperous under self-government controlling their own resources, including the oil, fishing and farming industries. For this election only, the voting age of the September referendum has been lowered to 16. Polling expert Prof John Curtice told the  : "If you look at the polls in the round, what you discover is, yes, younger people are perhaps a little more likely to be in favour of independence." However, the Professor was sceptical if younger voters would be the all-deciding vote that the SNP believes them to be.
On Thursday, Scotland 's First Minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond set the date September 18, 2014, for the country's referendum on political independence from the rest of the United Kingdom . The question to be presented at the ballot is: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"; if a majority vote "Yes", the union of the parliaments, in-place since 1707, will come to an end. Graph charting opinion on the referendum from several surveys undertaken during the past year. According to the (ABC), the SNP believe Scotland would be more prosperous under self-government controlling their own resources, including the oil, fishing and farming industries. For this election only, the voting age of the September referendum has been lowered to 16. Polling expert Prof John Curtice told the BBC : "If you look at the polls in the round, what you discover is, yes, younger people are perhaps a little more likely to be in favour of independence." However, the Professor was sceptical if younger voters would be the all-deciding vote that the SNP believes them to be.
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