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01.06.2022 - 20:43 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The Conservative group at Perth and Kinross Council has expressed outrage at the SNP choosing the convener of PKC's scrutiny committee.
The Conservative leader argued it should be for opposition groups to decide.
Meanwhile another Conservative councillor called it a "vile desecration of our local democracy".
The allocation of appointments to committees was put before councillors as they met on May 25 for the first time since the May 5 elections.
The SNP administration’s motion proposed - former Conservative now Independent - councillor Colin Stewart convene the scrutiny committee.
The Independents have not formed a coalition with the SNP. But prior to Wednesday's meeting all four Independents said they would support the 16 SNP councillors forming a minority administration. Labour said they would abstain. This then left it arithmetically impossible for an alternative administration to be formed.
Scottish Conservative group leader John Duff welcomed the "collegiate approach" taken by the SNP in the allocation of councillors to committees but added: "There is an important point of principle at stake in relation to one of the appointments being proposed by the administration.
"It has been the good practice and established custom of this local authority that the opposition parties have been permitted the opportunity to appoint the conveners and vice-conveners of audit and scrutiny committees. This was a custom and practice which was afforded by my group to the opposition in the previous administration when [ SNP ] councillors Drysdale and McCole chaired these two committees."
He said it was "good practice" and "provides transparency and credibility to the work of audit and scrutiny". The Highland Perthshire councillor
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