Candidate Holly Bruce is battling current equalities minister Kaukab Stewart in the Glasgow Southside seat.
The Scottish Greens are “really positive” about taking three MSPs in Glasgow, one of the party’s candidates has said.
Holly Bruce is running in the Glasgow Southside seat for the Greens, with party officials extremely optimistic she can take the seat previously held by former first minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Ms Bruce is battling current equalities minister Kaukab Stewart in the seat and could become the first Green elected to a local constituency in the history of devolution.
Speaking to the Press Association, she said they were feeling “really positive” about winning Glasgow Southside, adding: “On the regional ballot, we’re really hopeful we will get three MSPs for Glasgow.”
Three Green representatives, she said, would “do wonders for politics”.
“I feel like we, the Greens, do push the SNP to do better in their politics,” the Glasgow city councillor said.
“We’ve seen that in the previous term, where we pushed the SNP to be better on climate action and on poverty action as well, so it will do wonders for people.”
Reports suggest the SNP’s Culture Secretary Angus Robertson could be at risk in his Edinburgh Central seat from a challenge by former Green co-leader Lorna Slater.
Ms Bruce said: “It talks to the fact that Greens have been slowly building a movement in Scotland for a number of years now.
“We’ve also got a record number of Edinburgh councillors sitting on Edinburgh City Council at the moment, so it’s been a slow growth within our party and our movement, so it doesn’t surprise me that Lorna might get elected today.”
