THE First Minister is confident Scotland’s biggest city will “utterly reject fascists” in the Holyrood election.
It comes after right-wing bigots confronted Nicola Sturgeon at a polling station in the south side of Glasgow.
Issuing a defiant message on social media after the incident, the SNP leader wrote: “Glasgow Southside is the most diverse and multi-cultural constituency in Scotland – one of the many things that makes it so brilliant.
“I am confident it will unite today to utterly reject these fascists.”
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Jayda Fransen, who is standing as an independent in Glasgow Southside, accosted Sturgeon outside Lorne Street Primary School polling station.
The First Minister tells her: "You are a fascist, you are a racist and the southside of Glasgow will reject you."
Glasgow Southside is the most diverse and multi-cultural constituency in Scotland - one of the many things that makes it so brilliant. I am confident it will unite today to utterly reject these fascists. https://t.co/ygPJRksO2d
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) May 6, 2021
Sturgeon then walks away with party members as Fransen pursues her, talking about "mass immigration" and "Marxism".
The former Britain First member later tells an SNP supporter who asks her who she is: "I'm not fascist, just a normal, decent unionist patriot.
"My grandfather fought the Nazis."
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Fransen has previously been pictured outside the constituency office of Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf holding a sign saying "it's okay to be white" and has said she is running against the "SNP commie, Marxists, naughty people".
She was convicted of a number of religiously aggravated crimes, including harassment in both 2016 and 2018 – the latter of which saw her sentenced to 36 weeks in prison.
Although a member of the British Freedom Party, documents from Glasgow City Council show Fransen is running as an independent.
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