But No to Nato Scotland Coalition spokeswoman Leonna O'Neill said the issue was wider than an SNP party matter.
Mr Stewart announced last week he was stepping down after the SNP became the biggest party on the authority.
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But the event, sponsored by the British government and others, mattered to many, not least the ruling Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP).
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Only about 60, 000 Scots speak Gaelic and Alex Salmond, the Scottish National Party (SNP) leader, is rarely seen in a kilt.
Mr Robertson is to ask SNP delegates at the party's autumn conference on 19 October to back his new pro-Nato position.
Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), which dominates the legislature in Edinburgh, is not so sure.
The SNP were putting "party before country", Mr Scott told MSPs.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) leader John Swinney used his question to the first minister to raise the issue of Dungavel, Scotland's only immigration detention centre, in Lanarkshire.
The last Holyrood election saw the SNP become the first party to win an overall majority, meaning it plays a dominant role in the parliament's chamber and cross-party committees.
Female voters have never been too keen anyway on Alex Salmond, the brusque if charismatic leader of the ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) and first minister of the Scottish government.
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Tory leader David McLetchie said his party supported the Bill and criticised Mr Sheridan and the SNP for refusing to participate in the working party which drew it up.
The SNP was the biggest single party in Aberdeenshire after last year's election, with 28 councillors.
Russell is a prominent MSP, a senior SNP strategist and the former party chief executive.
That's Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the UK Independence Party, the SNP, the Greens, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein.
Ewan Crawford, of the University of West of Scotland, a former senior SNP adviser, thinks the party will recover quickly from any perceived setback.
Alex Salmond in overall command, his deputy as the day-to-day minister and Kevin Pringle starting work next week back at the SNP, co-ordinating party effort on the referendum after demitting his government post.
Plaid Cymru - whose three MPs form a joint parliamentary party with the SNP six - appears equally reluctant to deal unless the UK government offers a massive transfer of powers from Westminster to Cardiff Bay.
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Lowering the voting age for all elections is a long-standing SNP policy, and the party says it has been backed by organisations including Scotland's biggest teaching union, the EIS, as well as the Scottish TUC, National Union of Students and the Electoral Reform Society.
Party leaders said an SNP government would carry out a review of the tax system to make it simpler and more honest.
The SNP has claimed growing cross-party support at Westminster for its campaign to halt a planned 3p rise in fuel duty in August.
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You might want to ask why the two men want to lead the SNP, their aspirations for the party and Scotland or how in practice Scottish independence would work.
The Greens are the only Holyrood party, aside from the SNP, which backs Scottish independence.
Campaign chief Angus Robertson told his party's conference the SNP would appeal to people from all political backgrounds to secure a "yes" vote.
Labour MSP Ken Macintosh, Conservative MSP Jackson Carlaw, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, SNP MSP Gil Patterson and Green MSP and party co-convener Patrick Harvie all paid warm tributes to the retiring ministers and wittily welcomed the new appointments.
Shona Reid joined the SNP for the first time, being welcomed to the party by deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon.
Holyrood's all-party culture and education committee is chaired by SNP MSP Stewart Maxwell.
Even though she gained the support of the SNP she failed to get the backing of her own party.
The MSP was elected to the SNP's national executive, and was appointed the party's spokeswoman for health, education and later for justice.
However, Mr Salmond would not say what his own choice would be and instead said his party's position was clear in an SNP policy document.
Mr Johnstone said the action goes against everything the SNP had promised about supporting construction jobs and said the party's housing policy was "confused and contradictory".
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