
By 18 hours local time, Saturdays of more than two million British citizens signed a petition to hold a re -referendum on the country's membership in the European Union. In the first 12 hours, the circulation posted on Friday in the evening on the website of the country's parliament was signed by 550 thousand people.
The British are asked to introduce a new rule in relation to the EU referendum. By this proposal, a second referendum should be carried out if the turnout was below 75 percent or if the share of the country voted or against the exit of the EU is less than 60 percent.
Parliament is obliged to consider any petition collecting more than 100 thousand signatures. The British government, in turn, must be in the mandatory response to the petition, gaining more than 10 thousand signatures.
In addition, on the Change.org website almost 125 thousand votes scored a petition to the mayor of London Sadik Khan with a request to declare London an independent city that could be part of the EU.
Meanwhile, the Moody's rating agency has changed the forecast for the "negative" on Britain’s credit rating, but so far it has preserved it at a high level of AA1. The agency’s statement says that Britain is waiting for increased uncertainty in the markets and a decrease in the level of investment for several years, while the United Kingdom will revise its trade agreements with the countries of the European Union and other states.
On Friday, it became known that most Great Britain citizens voted for the kingdom of the European Union. Brexit supporters gained 51.9 percent of the vote. 48.1 percent of voters voted against the exit from the EU.
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced hisupcoming resignation in connection with the results of a referendum. According to Cameron, the current government in the current composition will work over the next three months.
At the same time, about 62 percent of the population of Scotland spoke to preserve EU membership, 38 percent voted for exit from the bloc. Scotland sees its future as part of the European Union, said the first minister of the country Nicolas. “Scotland clearly and resolutely voted to remain part of the European Union,” she emphasized. Previously, Rodzhnen noted that Brexit can become a prologue to Scotland's independence. Former leader of Scottish nationalists, Alex Salmond, has already called for a repeated referendum on the independence of Scotland .