This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition Change Scotland’s capital city from Edinburgh to Glasgow.
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Glasgow is a better and more advanced city than Edinburgh. Therefore it should be promoted to capital city of Scotland.
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