Former SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh speaks during the SNP National Conference in 2015
A FORMER SNP MP who was also a member of the Conservative and Labour parties is one of 32 candidates announced as part of Alex Salmond’s Alba Party slate for May’s elections.
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, who represented Ochil and South Perthshire between 2015 and 2017, is at the top of Alba’s list for the Central Scotland region in the upcoming Scottish Parliament elections.
She will join sitting MPs Kenny MacAskill and Neale Hanvey who switched their party affiliation to Alba, with a number of other SNP representatives also having joined.
Candidate lists for the Scottish Parliament election on May 6 also reveal the former leader of far-right Britain First, Jayda Fransen, is standing for election in the same constituency as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Ms Fransen was confirmed as an independent candidate in Glasgow Southside when nominations closed on Wednesday.
Libertarian vlogger Mark Meechan, known as Count Dankula, will also stand in Motherwell and Wishaw in May for the Scottish Libertarian party, having been convicted in 2018 for teaching his girlfriend’s dog to raise its paw in a Nazi salute.
