Salmond Backs Rights for Pupils

The Herald (September 07, 2004)

Author: Douglas Fraser; Scottish Political Editor

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Summary

ALEX Salmond, setting out his vision as the newly reinstalled leader of the Scottish National Party, yesterday backed compulsory voting at elections, a drive in schools to give pupils more democratic rights and further powers for parents on school boards.

Speaking to sixth-year pupils at Cleveden Secondary School in Glasgow, he spelled out the third theme of his efforts to turn around the party's fortunes, in trying to rejuvenate citizen participation, "while sweeping away quangos and the appointee state".

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Salmond Backs Rights for Pupils

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