Scottish Enterprise Party

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The Scottish Enterprise Party (SEP) was a Scottish centre-right party supportive of Scottish independence. It was formed in July 2004 to provide an alternative for centrist and right-of-centre voters who support independence.

The party opposed Scottish membership of the European Union and any prospective membership of the euro; it supported the principle of a constitutional monarchy and elections conducted through the Single Transferable Vote.

The SEP took the constitutional view that, unlike in England where sovereignty traditionally resides with Parliament, in Scotland sovereignty constitutionally resides with the people, as set out in the Declaration of Arbroath.

The party fielded 3 candidates in the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary elections, obtaining a total of 1,025 votes.

The organisation was later renamed as the Scottish Democratic Alliance (SDA). The policies remained basically the same. The SDA was registered with the Electoral Commission in June 2009, and the SEP was simultaneously wound up.

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• Scottish Democratic Alliance