Maureen Watt

Maureen Watt ( born June 23, 1951 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP). She is married and mother of two.

Watts grew up on a farm near Keith. She attended Keith Grammar School and graduated then their policy studies at the University of Strathclyde as a bachelor's degree. She earned the right to teach at the University of Birmingham and was then employed as a teacher at various locations. Later she moved to the oil industry.

Political career

In the Scottish Parliament elections of 1999 watts applied to the direct mandate of the constituency of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine. She got behind the Liberal Democrat Mike Rumbles and the Conservatives Ben Wallace the third highest number of votes and thus failed to reach the newly created Scottish Parliament. In the parliamentary elections in 2003 she was a candidate in the constituency of Aberdeen South and received the fourth-largest share of votes. On 21 March 2006, died the MP for the constituency of Moray, Margaret Ewing, which is why on 27 April 2006 by-elections were held in this constituency. To be able to run in this election, his mandate was the SNP MPs from the constituency North East Scotland, Richard Lochhead, back. By the end of the legislature slipped watts to this position and thus moved for the first time in the Scottish Parliament. Watt was the first member of parliament who removed her oath in the dialect of North East. In the following 2007 parliamentary elections candidate watts but times a constituency Aberdeen South but could not prevail against the mandate holder Nicol Stephen himself. However, it was first sent to an election as representative of the North East Scotland region in the parliament. In the new cabinet Watt was appointed Secretary of State for Schools under the Minister Fiona Hyslop and resigned in February 2009. As part of the reform constituency of Aberdeen South constituency was abolished and largely replaced by the newly created constituency of Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, for which Watt at the 2011 parliamentary elections candidate. She received the highest share of votes and thus won for the first time a direct mandate.