The First Minister is facing a confidence vote in his leadership after he moved to end the Bute House Agreement amid a row with the junior party over environmental and trans policies.
Humza Yousaf is on the brink of being forced out as Scotland's First Minister after the SNP 's former coalition partners turned on him during a day of chaos at Holyrood.
Mr Yousaf terminated a 2021 power-sharing deal between the SNP and Scottish Greens - known as the Bute House Agreement - in a pre-emptive move to avoid the Greens embarrassing him by themselves ending the deal in a vote next month. And Mr Harvie told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme: 'It's very clear that Humza Yousaf has decided to burn his bridges with the progressive, pro-independence majority that was established in the Bute House Agreement.'
The Bute House Agreement, which was voted for by members of both parties in August 2021, brought Greens into government for the first time anywhere in the UK, and gave the SNP a majority in the Scottish Parliament when its votes there were combined with those of the seven Green MSPs. Negotiations began soon after the election and the deal cleared its final hurdle at the end of August 2021 when Green members voted to approve it.
This contained a number of environmental policies, a commitment to implement rent controls, and a 'fair fares review' for public transport.These included aviation policy, green freeports, the defence sector and economic principles related to concepts of sustainable growth.First Minister Humza Yousaf called Mr Harvie and Ms Slater into his residence at Bute House and told them he was ending the deal.
That, combined with a decision to pause the use of puberty blockers for new patients attending the only Scottish gender identity clinic for children in Glasgow, resulted in the Greens saying last week that they would have a vote on the future of the power-sharing deal.The Bute House Agreement had committed Green MSPs to backing the Government in confidence votes, but as the deal has now ended, the Tories are seeking to exploit this.
Alba Party leader Alex Salmond, the former first minister, said 'things look pretty bleak' for Mr Yousaf and suggested he could soon be known as 'Humza the Brief'. But he was subjected to a furious attack from Ms Slater, who branded it 'an act of political cowardice by the SNP, who are selling out future generations to appease the most reactionary forces in the country'.
Former SNP leadership challenger Ash Regan, who is now an Alba MSP, tweeted: 'Forty eight hours ago I put a motion of no confidence in against Patrick Harvie, today the Government have agreed. I am glad to see the extremely unpopular politics of the greens have been abandoned and the SNP have found a backbone.'
Douglas Ross told MSPs at First Minister's Questions at Holyrood his party had said from the start that the Bute House powersharing agreement between the SNP and the Greens was a 'coalition of chaos' and that it had now 'ended in chaos'.
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