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Re: Schools
by Thomas on Wednesday 11/Jul/2007, @01:10
current seats in Scottish Parliament, (in braces before the last election in 2007)

Scottish Labour Party: 46 (50)
Scottish National Party: 47 (26)
Scottish Conservative and Unionist: 17 (17)
Scottish Liberal Democrats: 16 (17)
Scottish Green Party: 2 (7)

The Greens went down from 7 to 2 seats. So Patrick Harvie is one of the two delegates of the Green party?
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Re: Schools
by Jonathan Riddell on Wednesday 11/Jul/2007, @02:09
They are a major player in so far as the government depends on them for support of their First Minister. In a proportional representation system with minority government small parties tend to have more influence than might be expected.
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  • Re: Schools
    by Ian Ruffell on Wednesday 11/Jul/2007, @08:56
    Patrick also convenes the Parliament's committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change [1] so he has a bit more influence than your average minor party backbencher.

    [1] http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/ticc/index.htm
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Scottish Paraliment make-up
by CSMiller on Thursday 26/Jul/2007, @13:46
The Greens do have two MSPs (Members of the Scottish Paraliment).

However, because the SNP had the largest number of MSPs,
they had first chance to form a paraliment.

The Labour and LibDems were in coalition in the last Paraliment.
Labour, SNP and Conservatives are opposed to each other; they wouldn't do a
deal.

The LibDems are opposed to Scottish Independence; they said before the election that they wouldn't do a deal with the SNP if the SNP went ahead with referendum on Scottish Indpendance; this is a manifesto commitment of the SNP. Apart from this the SNP and LibDems agree enough for a coalition.

The Scottish Socialist Party (6 MSPs last time) are pro-independence, as as are the Greens.

The Greens and SNP are in coalition, but since they don't have a majority of MSPs the executive is taking issues one at time, mainly the uncontentious ones, gathering enough support from the other parties.

BTW,
The Greens are also opposed to software patents.
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