Former Health Secretary Michael Matheson has confirmed that he’ll stand as MSP in Holiroad elections subsequent 12 months.
Falkirk West Representative is without doubt one of the authentic consumption chosen in 1999.
Since then, he has labored in lots of authorities roles together with Justice Secretary and Transport Secretary.
Last 12 months, he was banned from the Scottish Parliament after breaking the principles of spending in a line within the £ 11,000 knowledge roaming invoice.
Matheson was stopped for 27 days after racking the invoice on its parliamentary iPad throughout a household go to to Morocco at late 2022.
When the main points of the invoice have been made public for the primary time, the then Health Secretary stated that the gadget was used just for parliamentary work.
But later Matheson admitted that his sons used the gadget as an information hotspot in order that they may see soccer.
He later accomplished the fee of the invoice and apologized.
In an announcement posted on social media on Sunday, Matheson stated he was eager to seek for new challenges exterior the frontline politics.
He joined a gaggle of 26 MSPs, together with former first ministers Nikola Sturgeon and Humja Yusuf, who has now introduced that they won’t search election once more subsequent 12 months.
With inputs from BBC