Humza Yousaf

L'ancien ministre de la santé de Nicola Sturgeon est le candidat qui a reçu le plus de parrainages de parlementaires et était considéré comme le favori.

[Testez votre culture générale avec la rédaction du « Monde »Découvrir](https://www.lemonde.fr/memorable/?rfextension=inread&xtor=SEC-33281220) Kate Forbes n’est pas loin derrière (37 %). Le gouvernement local de l’Ecosse, territoire comptant 5,5 millions d’habitants, est compétent sur de nombreux sujets, dont l’éducation, la santé et la justice. Plus de 50 000 membres du SNP ont participé au vote, pour un corps électoral comptant un peu plus de 72 000 membres. Ecossais et Britanniques dans leur ensemble veulent des responsables politiques « qui se concentrent sur les problèmes les plus importants pour eux : réduire l’inflation, traiter la crise du coût de la vie et réduire les listes d’attente » dans le système de santé, a déclaré un porte-parole du premier ministre Rishi Sunak, ajoutant que ce dernier « se réjouit de travailler » avec M. A l’issue d’un scrutin interne déclenché par la démission surprise de Mme Sturgeon le mois dernier après huit ans en poste, il s’impose face à la ministre des finances Kate Forbes, aux positions conservatrices controversées, et à Ash Regan, une ancienne membre du gouvernement local.

Narrowly elected as the new leader of the pro-independence Scottish National Party Monday (SNP), Yousaf faces the monumental task of bringing together a party ...

this is a disaster that even the best political operator would drown in,” Mackay said. Optimistic SNP supporters put the drop down to drift, meaning members simply forgot to renew amid the pandemic and then cost-of-living crisis. “He’ll need to reach out and use all the talent available to put the best team together. If he can show progress on public service delivery and the economy then SNP can see off challenge from Labour.” “Even the [SNP] establishment probably see him as a placeholder for someone better.” “When you were transport minister, the trains were never on time,” Forbes told Yousaf in that debate. “When you were justice minister, the police were strained to breaking point. Low turnout in the leadership election — just 70 percent of eligible members cast their votes — will only add to doubt about whether the SNP remains an engaging force. Speaking in Edinburgh Monday, Yousaf vowed to “lead the SNP in the interests of all party members, not just those who voted for me” and to “lead Scotland in the interests of all of our citizens.” The party split over both issues, with politicians once loyal to Sturgeon beginning to openly express their discontent. “Humza has a lot of work to do to bring the party together, and deliver competent government that people want to see,” one senior SNP MSP said. Indeed, Yousaf now faces the prospect of leading a party that only narrowly voted for him — and the closeness of the result is likely to be studied closely because Forbes at one point looked definitively out for the count.

Yousaf, who currently is Scotland's health minister, beat two other Scottish lawmakers in a contest to replace First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. She unexpectedly ...

He says he wants to build a “settled, sustained” majority for independence. The SNP wants a new vote, but the central government in London has refused to authorize one, and the U.K. Scottish voters backed remaining in the U.K. The smaller party had warned it might quit the coalition if the SNP elected a leader that doesn’t share its progressive views — meaning a victory by Forbes or Regan could have splintered the government. Yousaf has signaled he will act cautiously. “They couldn’t have imagined, in their wildest dreams, that two generations later their grandson would one day be Scotland’s first minister,” he said.

Âgé de 37 ans, ce proche de Nicola Sturgeon hérite de la délicate mission de relancer un mouvement indépendantiste en perte de vitesse qui se heurte au refus ...

Cette loi devait permettre la reconnaissance du changement de genre, sans avis médical et dès 16 ans. Elle est membre de l’Église libre d’Écosse, qui est opposée au mariage homosexuel et à l’avortement. Il s’est engagé lundi à lancer un mouvement populaire en faveur de l’autodétermination. Plus largement, ce scrutin est potentiellement lourd de conséquences pour l’avenir du Royaume-Uni, dont les divisions entre ses quatre nations constitutives (Angleterre, Écosse, Pays de Galles et Irlande du Nord) ont été aggravées par le Brexit. Mais au sein du SNP, Humza Yousaf arrivait en tête, avec 38 %. Aucun candidat n’ayant recueilli plus de 50 % des suffrages dans ce scrutin où les électeurs classent les candidats par ordre de préférence, il s’est imposé au deuxième décompte, recueillant 52,1 % des voix.

The 37-year-old son of South Asian immigrants is set to become the first person of color to serve as Scotland's first minister.

He says he wants to build a “settled, sustained” majority for independence. The SNP wants a new vote, but the central government in London has refused to authorize one, and the U.K. Scottish voters backed remaining in the U.K. The smaller party had warned it might quit the coalition if the SNP elected a leader that doesn’t share its progressive views — meaning a victory by Forbes or Regan could have splintered the government. Yousaf has signaled he will act cautiously. A formidable leader who led the SNP to a dominant position in Scottish politics, Sturgeon failed in her aim of leading Scotland out of the United Kingdom, and divided the party with a contentious transgender rights law.

Humza Yousaf a été élu lundi par les membres du parti indépendantiste écossais (SNP) pour succéder à Nicola Sturgeon à la tête du gouvernement local et ...

(Bloomberg) -- Humza Yousaf won the contest to replace Nicola Sturgeon as head of the pro-independence Scottish National Party after a fractious battle that ...

Yousaf will also need to overhaul the SNP’s strategy for securing a new vote on Scottish independence and find a way to engage a Conservative government in London that’s rebuffed all approaches by saying now is not the time. A month before Sturgeon resigned, the UK blocked a controversial gender recognition bill passed by the Scottish Parliament after a feud over the protection of women’s rights. Her fall-back plan was to turn the next UK general election into a de facto referendum, though Yousaf has said he is likely to shelve that. A survey by Survation showed backing for the party in national elections had fallen to its lowest level in five years. His first hurdle, though, will be to reunite a party that once prided itself on its internal discipline and united front. Scotland’s economy is also lagging behind the UK as a whole.

LONDRES — Le Parti national écossais (SNP) au pouvoir en Écosse a élu Humza Yousaf comme nouveau chef. Ce fils d'immigrants sud-asiatiques, âgé de 37 ans, ...

Le projet de loi sur la reconnaissance du genre a été salué comme une mesure législative historique par les militants des droits des trans, mais s’est heurté à l’opposition de membres du SNP. Mme Forbes, âgée de 32 ans, est une chrétienne évangélique qui a été critiquée pour avoir déclaré que sa foi l’aurait empêchée de voter en faveur du mariage des couples de même sexe, si elle avait été députée lorsque l’Écosse a légalisé le mariage gai en 2014. La course, qui a duré cinq semaines, aura été éprouvante pour le parti, qui est apparu fortement divisé.

Humza Yousaf, who replaces Nicola Sturgeon, will become the youngest first minister in Scotland's history and the third major political figure in Britain ...

Mr. “She’s handed it over at a point when the public are beginning to wake up that there are problems.” On Monday he said that he wanted to make the case for independence through good governance before pressing ahead with a referendum proposal, which could take years. Yousaf will also have to reignite the SNP’s quest for Scottish independence. Yousaf, the current Health Secretary, was considered the favourite heading into the leadership race, and he campaigned largely on a pledge to continue Ms. “It was starting to ignore the new priorities of the voter. “We should all take pride in the fact that today we have sent a clear message, that your colour of skin, your faith, is not a barrier to leading the country we all call home,” he said. Historian Sir Tom Devine, professor emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, said the SNP should be wary of what happened to the Scottish Labour Party, which dominated Scotland’s politics for decades until its sudden collapse in 2011. “Regardless of your politics, this is a significant moment for Scotland.” “I am forever thankful that my grandparents made the trip from the Punjab to Scotland over 60 years ago,” Mr. Sadiq Khan, the son of a bus driver from Pakistan, is the first Muslim to serve as Mayor of London. Yousaf, 37, narrowly won the race to lead the Scottish National Party on Monday, taking 52 per cent of the vote among party members.

LONDRES — Le Parti national écossais (SNP) au pouvoir en Écosse a élu Humza Yousaf comme nouveau chef. Ce fils d'immigrants sud-asiatiques, âgé de 37 ans, ...

Le projet de loi sur la reconnaissance du genre a été salué comme une mesure législative historique par les militants des droits des trans, mais s’est heurté à l’opposition de membres du SNP. Mme Forbes, âgée de 32 ans, est une chrétienne évangélique qui a été critiquée pour avoir déclaré que sa foi l’aurait empêchée de voter en faveur du mariage des couples de même sexe, si elle avait été députée lorsque l’Écosse a légalisé le mariage gai en 2014. La course, qui a duré cinq semaines, aura été éprouvante pour le parti, qui est apparu fortement divisé.

Petit-fils d'immigrés pakistanais, Humza Yousaf, 37 ans, a été élu leader du Scottish National Party.

Petit-fils d'immigrés pakistanais, Humza Yousaf, 37 ans, a été élu leader du Scottish National Party.

New leader needs to convince Scotland that he can take the SNP in a fresh direction.

Yousaf’s allies suggest he has been underestimated but admit it is up to him to demonstrate his talents. It will involve countering his rival Kate Forbes’s attack that he was incompetent in the three policy briefs he held. He initially said he would take legal action, but then suggested he would only proceed if the advice suggested he could win. Yet his opponents suggest that if there was any real hope of another independence referendum, Sturgeon would still be in post. “He’s got to show he’s prepared to do that,” one said of Yousaf. Downing Street has already made it clear that Sunak’s response to Yousaf will be no different.

Humza Yousaf faces some enormous challenges as he takes over from Nicola Sturgeon as SNP leader and Scotland's first minister. Being the leader of a divided ...

At the start of the leadership contest Humza Yousaf seemed committed to challenging that position in court. While that is substantially true, it may not be the only factor. I expect that whatever she might be offered, Kate Forbes would want a fair amount of autonomy if she is to continue in government. Then of course there are significant policy issues to be addressed. That's not a prediction. In his acceptance speech, he acknowledged the "bruising" nature of the leadership campaign and called for divisions to be healed quickly.

Changement de garde en Écosse. Au terme d'une campagne particulièrement âpre, Humza Yousaf a été choisi lundi par les indépendantistes pour succéder à ...

Groggy après la défaite du Oui au référendum de 2014, le mouvement nationaliste écossais a connu un regain dans les années suivant le Brexit. Il a été critiqué comme ministre de la Santé, au sujet du temps d’attente aux urgences. Le mouvement semble bloqué et de plus en plus sur la défensive. Dans ce contexte, le mandat d’Humza Yousaf à la tête du SNP s’annonce difficile. Que Kate Forbes, fervente chrétienne, antiavortement et contre le mariage pour tous, ait obtenu près de la moitié des voix parmi les militants trahit notamment la présence d’un fort courant réactionnaire au sein du SNP, ce qui tranche avec l’image progressiste que le parti cherche à se donner depuis une décennie. Mais pour le reste, ce sera simplement plus de la même chose », résume James Mitchell, professeur de sciences politiques à l’Université d’Édimbourg.

This bitterly fought contest has only widened divisions, and the opposition parties are already circling, says Herald columnist Dani Garavelli.

But the Greens would have been the likely beneficiaries of a mass exit of “woke” members, and Forbes might have proved a challenging adversary across the chamber. It is impossible yet to know if Scottish Labour will rise to the occasion and capitalise on the widening faultlines within the SNP. And, of course, there is still the police probe into the [£600,000 of funds](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nicola-sturgeon-600k-husband-investigation-b2283471.html) said to have gone missing from the party’s accounts (the party has not responded to the allegation, due to the ongoing investigation). [new taxes for the wealthy](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousaf-back-wealth-tax-29553552) is preferable to Forbes’s more conservative economic bent. The divisions within the party, and the miasma of failure around it, have only increased as a result of a bitterly fought contest and a relentless succession of bad news stories, something that is evident in the tight result. It was a growing recognition that the Salmond/Sturgeon era had run out of steam that led to her resignation. One of the quirks of the contest was that many unionist activists and commentators seemed to be lobbying for Forbes, which suggests they thought a victory for her would most boost their own position. Meanwhile, his predisposition to fight the UK government on its section 35 obstruction of the SNP’s [gender recognition reform bill](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/16/rishi-sunak-blocks-scotlands-gender-recognition-legislation) may be exactly what the progressives who voted for him want; but it will also rekindle the divisions that helped force his predecessor’s exit. [came through in the end](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/27/humza-yousaf-elected-leader-scottish-national-party-snp), although by a tighter margin than any new leader of a party would want. With no second referendum on the horizon, and Sturgeon out of the picture, the cork has popped off the bottle and will not be forced back in. As the “establishment” candidate, he already has the support of the majority of MSPs and ministers. He will find it easier than Forbes would have done to form a cabinet, and his election makes it unlikely the Greens will walk out of their powersharing deal, as they had already

Le tout nouveau leader des indépendantistes écossais Humza Yousaf doit être formellement élu mardi Premier ministre de l'Ecosse par le Parlement local, ...

Cette loi devait permettre la reconnaissance du changement de genre, sans avis médical et dès 16 ans. Yousaf est potentiellement lourde de conséquences pour l'avenir du Royaume-Uni, dont les divisions entre ses quatre nations constitutives (Angleterre, Ecosse, pays de Galles et Irlande du Nord) ont été aggravées par le Brexit. Jusqu'alors ministre de la Santé, M.

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Newly appointed leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Humza Yousaf speaks at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on March 27, 2023. Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty ...

“We will be the generation that delivers independence for Scotland,” he said in a victory speech. It remains etched into the memories of many who experienced it, and their descendents. Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman also has Indian roots, while London mayor Sadiq Khan was born to a working-class Pakistani immigrant family. In 2014, Scotland voted against independence by 55%. The hardship reached a breaking point when his grandmother was attacked with an axe, he said. His mother was born in Nairobi, Kenya, also to a family from Punjabi descent. But 75 years since the end of the British Raj, many commentators have remarked at how history has come full circle. [interview](https://www.holyrood.com/inside-politics/view,interview-humza-yousaf-on-tackling-hate-headon_9401.htm) with Scotland’s Holyrood newspaper, Yousaf explained in detail how his mother’s family faced racial discrimination in the East African city for being seen as taking away jobs from the local population. Yousaf joined the SNP while he was a student at the University of Glasgow and rose through the ranks of the party, becoming a member of parliament in 2011 – the first Muslim and non-White cabinet minister to serve in the Scottish Government. Noor Ahmed, from the Citizen’s Archive of Pakistan, a non-profit organization dedicated to cultural and historic preservation, described the journey Yousaf has taken as a “Pakistani story that is moving and aspirational, and will be lauded locally.” On Tuesday, the Scottish Parliament will vote to elect the country’s sixth first minister, a position Yousaf is expected to claim as the head of the party with the most lawmakers. “It was time to get away and again, it made sense because there was a British call for people from the Commonwealth to come and take on industrial jobs,” Yousaf said.

BBC Scotland experts look at some of the issues and challenges facing Scotland's next first minister.

Au lendemain de son élection à la tête des indépendantistes écossais, Humza Yousaf doit être formellement élu premier ministre de l'Écosse mardi par le ...

« J’ai hâte de travailler avec lui pour concrétiser les priorités qui comptent le plus pour les Écossais, qu’il s’agisse de réduire les listes d’attente du NHS (le système public de santé britannique, NDLR) ou de développer notre économie », a-t-il écrit sur Twitter. La cause indépendantiste, relancée par le Brexit auquel les Écossais se sont massivement opposés, semble dans l’impasse. Selon un sondage Ipsos publié mardi, la moitié d’entre eux jugent que l’Écosse « va dans la mauvaise direction » et que le gouvernement a fait « du mauvais travail » en matière de santé, d’éducation ou de niveau de vie. À Londres, le premier ministre britannique Rishi Sunak a félicité M. Humza Yousaf « doit s’assurer qu’il mène et redynamise la campagne pour l’indépendance, que nous ayons une discussion sur le type de pays que l’Écosse devrait devenir », a estimé mardi Ian Blackford, ancien chef des députés du SNP au Parlement britannique, sur Sky News. Après sa victoire lundi, Humza Yousaf, jusqu’alors ministre de la Santé, a promis de faire partie de « la génération qui obtiendra l’indépendance », soulignant que « le peuple » écossais a « besoin de l’indépendance dès maintenant, plus que jamais ».

He has pledged to be a "first minister for all of Scotland" after being chosen by party members to replace Nicola Sturgeon. Mr Yousaf, who had been serving as ...

Humza Yousaf has indicated he would like to continue that support, and indeed make it more of a priority for the Scottish government. Or does more of the focus need to be on poverty and disadvantage itself? None of these are simple, single issues to be filed away. An appeal for extra funding was met instead with the threat of 10% cuts. There's the clamour, notably from retailers, to reform business rates. Humza Yousaf is well aware of the mammoth task required to fix the problems across health and social care. And there is a question mark over economic strategy. But to deliver that will have to involve unpopular decisions about what the healthcare system can and cannot afford. But worries have been expressed that it is sometimes proving harder for other young people - who are not necessarily actively advantaged - to get places on certain courses. Can the government properly reset its strained relationship with teachers after the recent strike? It wanted to be judged by its progress raising attainment and helping children and young people from disadvantaged areas. Inevitably, the pandemic has thrown up new problems which are still real issues.

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Yousaf will then begin the process of assembling his cabinet. Currently first minister-designate, Yousaf will formally become first minister tomorrow morning when he is sworn in at the Court of Session. After second preference votes were taken into account, he won 52.1 percent of the vote compared to 47.9 percent for Forbes.