Frances Curran

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Frances Curran

Frances Curran (born May 21, 1961 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish Socialist Party  (SSP). From 2007 she formed the party leadership together with Colin Fox .

Political career

After Curran had been involved in various socialist organizations since 1983, she later joined the Labor Party . There she belonged to the left wing until she left the party and joined the Scottish Socialist Alliance  (SSA). After the Labor MP in the British House of Commons , Gordon McMaster , committed suicide shortly after the 1997 general election, new elections were scheduled in his constituency in Paisley South . Curran competed for the SSA. However, she received only 1.3% of the vote and thus clearly missed the entry into the lower house.

After the SSA was merged with other left-wing groups to form the SSP in 1998, Curran stood for them in the first Scottish parliamentary elections in 1999. However, she did not apply for the direct mandate of a constituency, but was placed on the regional electoral list of the SSP for the electoral region of Glasgow in second place behind Tommy Sheridan . As a result of the election result, the SSP received only one mandate and Curran thus missed the entry into the newly created Scottish Parliament . In 2001, she went to the general election again in the constituency of Paisley South. Curran was able to increase their share of the vote to 2.7%, but that was not enough to win the direct mandate. In the Scottish general election in 2003 , she ran for the direct mandate of the Scottish constituency of Paisley South and received 7.1% of the vote. However, since Curran was placed on the regional electoral list of the SSP for the electoral region West of Scotland in first place, she received the only list mandate of the SSP in this electoral region and moved into the Scottish Parliament for the first time as a result of the election result. There she acted as party spokeswoman for business, housing, Europe and international relations, education and youth. Curran played a leading role in organizing the peaceful demonstrations in front of the Gleneagles Hotel as part of the G8 meeting in 2005. In order to draw attention to the lack of precautions taken by Parliament to ensure the right to demonstrate, Curran and some of his party colleagues disrupted Parliament's Question Time . As a result, she and three other SSP politicians were expelled from parliament for a month. Her monthly payments, as well as those of her employees, were withheld.

In 2006, she announced that she would not run in the 2007 elections for personal reasons . This was realized by listing Curran on the hopeless fourth place on the regional electoral list for West of Scotland. Together with her party colleague Colin Fox, she has been the party leadership of the SSP since 2007. After the Labor MP for the Glasgow East constituency , David Marshall , resigned in 2008 for health reasons, new elections were scheduled in his constituency. In these, Curran applied for the direct mandate, but was only able to gain 2.1% of the votes. In the 2011 Scottish General Election , Curran was placed first on the electoral list for the West Scotland region, but received no mandate.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b party profile of the BBC
  3. ↑ a b Results of the general election in the Paisley constituency 1997-2001
  4. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  5. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
  6. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
  7. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  8. ↑ BBC News: MSPs suspended after G8 protest
  9. ^ The Telegraph: Labor MP David Marshall to quit causing Brown more by election woe
  10. ↑ Results of the 2008 by-elections in the Glasgow East constituency
  11. ^ Information from the Scottish Socialist Party ( Memento from February 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
personal data
SURNAME Curran, Frances
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow