Voting closes today in a contest that, despite rarely reaching the public's radar screens, could have an important bearing on Scotland's constitutional future.

And one of the immediate concerns, at least for some businesses, is the cost of political risk while Scotland's constitutional future remains unclear.

He cited as his reason for leaving the fact that his party had refused to even debate his proposal regarding the constitutional future of Quebec.

He thinks that a proportional representation voting system is more important than the constitutional future of Scotland.

Scotland now has a majority nationalist government committed to holding a referendum on the country's constitutional future at some point between 2014 and 2016.

According to Hoxha, the insurgents' key demand was to be included in talks on the country's constitutional future - something explicitly ruled out by the government.

It would be in nobody's interests for Scotland's constitutional future to become a matter of sustained legal wrangles in the courts.

The vote, Mr. de Klerk said, "will determine who the voters want to represent them at negotiations on their constitutional future."

I think there are businesses that are nervous about investing in Scotland when they don't know about its constitutional future.

"Whatever Scotland's constitutional future we're going to be willing and positive contributors to the British Irish Council."