Ms Sturgeon refused to back anyone as a successor, insisting there was a wealth of talent within the SNP.
The deputy first minister is the most experienced option open to the SNP, given he has actually led the party before.
However there are major questions about whether he would actually want to take up the leadership again.The finance secretary has had a meteoric rise through the ranks of government. She was dropped into the job following the surprise resignation of Derek Mackay and was left to deliver the 2020 Scottish Budget with just hours notice.She was first elected to the seat of Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch in 2016.
However he lost his Moray seat in 2017, and was out of frontline politics for a spell before winning the Holyrood seat of Edinburgh Central in 2021. She has been a critic of Ms Sturgeon's leadership on the issue of gender reform, and has built a following within sections of the party of a similar persuasion.Depending on the strength of feeling about the issue of gender reform within the party at the moment of the contest, Ms Cherry might see herself as a realistic contender.
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