The incumbent health secretary, Yousaf edged out competition from his closest rival, Kate Forbes and against Ash Regan, and will be formally nominated to be First Minister by Scotland’s parliament in a vote on Tuesday, 28 March, followed by an official swearing at Scotland’s supreme civil court on Wednesday.
However, the contest also exposed striking policy differences between the three candidates – Yousaf, who is widely seen as Sturgeon’s preferred successor, Forbes, a rising star who’s boat sunk due to her views against same-sex marriage, and Ash Regan, who quit the government in protest to Sturgeon’s proposed changes to gender recognition.
Yousaf was born in Scotland’s Glasgow in the mid-1980s, but his roots stretch Mian Channu in Pakistan’s Punjab, where his grandparents moved to Scotland in the 1960s. The son of first-generation immigrants, Yousaf was a private educator at Gaslgow’s Hutchensons’ Grammar School and went on to study politics at the University of Glasgow.
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