John Farquhar Munro

John Farquhar Munro ( born August 26, 1934 at the Glen Shiel, Scotland, † January 26, 2014 ) was a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats.

Munro attended the Plockton High School and the Merchant Marine College in Gloucestershire. Between 1966 and 1975, Munro was councilor of Inverness -shire from 1974 to 1996 Member of the District Council of Skye and Lochalsh. In parallel, Munro sat from 1978 to 1982 and between 1994 and 1999 in the Regional Council of Highland.

For the first time Munro joined the Scottish Parliament elections 1999 to national elections. He stood as a candidate in the constituency of Ross, Skye and Inverness West and was the direct mandate just before the Labour candidate and former lead singer of the band Runrig, Donnie Munro, win. He moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament and defended in the following elections in 2003 and 2007, his mandate. At the 2011 parliamentary elections Munro did not occur to.

Munro made ​​important contributions to the abolition of bridge tolls to the Skye Bridge and the revival of the Scottish Gaelic language. His support for the SNP politician Alex Salmond for a second term as First Minister in the parliamentary elections in 2011 caused quite a stir. However, Munro relativized his statement to the effect that he would vote in the upcoming elections anyway for the Liberal Democrats and not for the SNP.

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