THE SNP launched its regional council election manifesto in Tayside
yesterday confident of wresting the administration from Labour.
The party holds 10 seats on Tayside Regional Council compared to
Labour's 18 and the Conservatives' 13.
Councillor Frances Duncan, SNP group leader on the council, believes
the party will win the votes of ''disaffected Tories'' and remove the
current Labour administration at the elections on May 5.
The party is confident it can pick up seats in Angus, Dundee, and
Perth and Kinross next month.
Councillor Duncan said SNP candidates would ''fight to resist any
attempt by Government to transfer any of the existing powers of local
government, whether it be centralising them directly under the Scottish
Office or under a centrally appointed non-elected board or through
privatisation''.
The manifesto criticises the Government's moves to privatise water and
sewerage services and calls for the retention of social work committees.
The document also labels Government proposals for local government
reform as a ''threat to local democracy''.
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