QUESTION and answer sessions are being held this week for Scottish Green Party members ahead of a vote on whether to approve the Holyrood power-sharing deal with the SNP.
Meetings will be held across all of the country’s electoral regions with an online extraordinary general meeting and vote taking place on Saturday. Insiders say the vote may be tight.
The regional sessions, which start at 7.30pm, are as follows:
Tomorrow: Lothian and Central, Highlands and Islands and the West of Scotland.
Wednesday: South of Scotland and Glasgow.
Thursday: Members of special interest groups.
Friday: North East Scotland and Mid Scotland and Fife.
A high turnout at the emergency general meeting is expected.
An agreement between the two parties, which will see two Green MSPs enter government and a move towards a shared policy platform, was announced on Friday.
The SNP national executive committee approved the deal on Saturday, with a consultative poll of members set for this week.
Under the deal, two Scottish Green MSPs will become junior ministers.
Patrick Harvie, the Greens co-leader, has said it could take until the middle of this week for a final decision to be made between himself, co-leader Lorna Slater and the First Minister. Harvie has been the co-leader of the party since 2008, and an MSP for the Glasgow region since 2003.
Slater has been an MSP since the election in May.
When asked how it felt for him to be standing alongside the First Minister announcing the deal in Bute House, he said: “I expected it to feel a bit like the election debates, those kind of high-profile media moments, but it didn’t feel like that at all.
“This is really about trying to set a new tone in politics, trying to say political parties can work together when they’ve got common ground and still disagree about other issues.”
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