Scottish Paraliment make-up

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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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