Nicola Sturgeon announced in February that she would resign after more than eight years.
HUMZA YOUSAF HAS been elected as the new SNP leader and will tomorrow become First Minister of Scotland.
When second preferences were distributed in the second stage, Yousaf took 26,032 and Kate Forbes took 23,890 .Yousaf is set to become Scotland’s youngest First Minister and also the first ever person from a minority ethnic background to hold the post. During his victory speech today, he thanked his late grandparents who he said “made the trip from Punjab to Scotland over 60 years ago”.
It has not been a smooth leadership contest for the party, with acrimonious clashes between candidates and the dramatic resignation of chief executive Peter Murrell following controversy over the transparency of SNP membership numbers. Early in the campaign, Forbes can under increased scrutiny after she said she would not have voted for same-sex marriage had she been an MSP.
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