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John Farquhar MunroJohn Farquhar Munro, born in Glen Shiel, 1934, is a Liberal Democrat Member of the Scottish Parliament for Ross, Skye and Inverness West. Previously a crofter and a local councillor for 33 years, he was first elected to the Scottish Parliament at the 1999 election. Running against him for Labour was Donnie Munro, former member of the band Runrig, but Munro won 1,539 more votes. http://www.alba.org.uk/scot03results/hr06.html He was one of three Lib-Dem MSPs to oppose his party's coalition with the Labour Party (along with Keith Raffan and Donald Gorrie) and has deviated from the Executive on a number of issues (such as land reform, on which he believes they are not moving quickly enough). As befits one of the few native Gaelic speakers in the Scottish Parliament he co-sponsored (along with the SNP's Mike Russell) a bill to secure the languages status as being equal to English. He was angry when the Scottish Executive refused to back it. He was re-elected to the Scottish Parliament at the 2003 election with an increased share of the vote. Munro, John Farquhar Munro, John Farquhar
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