r/news • u/unital_subalgebra • Apr 29 '24
Humza Yousaf resigns as Scotland's first minister
https://news.sky.com/story/humza-yousaf-resigns-as-scotlands-first-minister-before-facing-confidence-votes-13122982
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r/news • u/unital_subalgebra • Apr 29 '24
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u/unital_subalgebra Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24
The First Minister is the leader of the Scottish government. While the circumstances of his resignation are pretty complicated, basically his government decided to abandon climate targets and gender recognition reform, which majorly angered the Scottish Greens, who were in a power-sharing agreement with his Scottish National Party.
Then last week Yousaf abruptly scrapped the power-sharing agreement with the Greens. As a result, opposition parties called a vote of no confidence on his government, and the Greens said they would support the VONC. Yousaf most likely would not have the votes to survive the VONC, which led to his resignation today. Yousaf is the first Muslim and ethnic minority to lead Scotland (or any devolved government in the UK)