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“I don’t think there’s anything controversial about trying to make parliament more inclusive,” Fatima Joji says.
The Nigerian-Scot, from Westhill, Aberdeenshire, is excited about her position topping the SNP’s north-east regional list for the Scottish Parliament elections in May.
But she has spoken out against those who “seem to think that I have been somehow parachuted into what they see as being a gravy train position simply because I am a BAME woman”.
It comes after the party agreed a new mechanism of putting either BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) or disabled candidates on the top of the eight SNP regional lists.