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His tweet says: “With 100 days to go until the Scottish election, I am considering standing as an independent candidate in Lothian. What do you think? Should I go for it?”
The election of Mr Wightman on the Lothians list in 2016 was a result that, along with the election of Alison Johnstone, made the Scottish Greens the fourth biggest party in Holyrood, pushing the Liberal Democrats into fifth with just four MSPs.
The pair were elected after their party received 10.6 per cent of votes across the region.
The Lothians list has previously returned an independent MSP, after Margo MacDonald quit the SNP and was still returned through the proportional vote system in 2003, and again in 2007 and 2011.