IPSOS POLL - COPALA CITY WOULD VOTE TO BECOME INDEPENDENT BY JUST 2 POINTS
IPSOS poll for the Copala Times, about the Copala City independence support
If Copala City voted today in an independence referendum, a 51% of the Copalans would vote to become an independent country from the Kingdom of Reitzmag, 2 percentual points over the choice to stay as a special part within Reitzmag, supported by a 49% of the Copalans, all Reitzmics. It has come to the attention of the IPSOS poll makers that a 1% of Reitzmics would go for the independence choice, after George and Amal Maxwells had to run away from the city and the autonomy suspension, which makes them say they want an independent Copala. Something that wouldn't have happened back in January. "I believed in an united Reitzmag, but the autonomy suspension in February and then the withdrawal from the Treaty of Buckingham without any reason, even if now they try to justify it with fake news and statements, are enough reasons for me to support an independent Copala City within a Nicoleizian Commonwealth or else as a sovereign republic"; says a Copalan citizen who is Reitzmic.
George Maxwells has commented the poll results with our correspondent in the United Duchies, where he is hiding from what he calls "the final phase of the Reitzmic oppression". Maxwells says that these results weren't unexpected and they aren't surprising to him: that's why we won the election with 4 seats and that's why we had to run away from Copala City, because Reitzmag knows that letting the Copalans vote means: an independence referendum in Copala City means independence, and that's why Simon Bridges was so worried about my party, or that's why they wanted to impose a Gobernor-General." Maxwells has also gone a step further on commenting the matter: "There are 2 countries that recognise Copala City as part of a Nicoleizian Commonwealth while declaring us independent from Reitzmag, and the UNSR applauded the Reitzmics' decision, so that tells you how things worked when it comes to damaging the real Icholasen while the false one is enjoying such a decision."
Looking towards the future, a referendum concerning the Copalan independence seems imposible, but demonstrations on the streets are a daily routine at the city where dreams come true. Meanwhile, others just send letters to Harriet Copala asking her for another intervention, this time to release them from their pain. The hope is now put on the Commission elections, to have pro-independence candidates at the Commission and trying to achieve a referendum, a once in a lifetime chance. But, will that work for the people of Copala City? A month left to see if it does.