Humza Yousaf has said that he will not resign and that he will be fighting the two no confidence votes.
There has been speculation that Yousaf might resign ahead of the votes, after the coalition between the SNP and Greens collapsed.
Earlier today, the First Minister of Scotland cancelled a speech that he was due deliver at lunchtime on independence in Glasgow, fueling rumours that Yousaf might be stepping down.
The speech was an address to the labour market in an independent Scotland.
Humza Yousaf is set to cancel a speech he was due to deliver in Glasgow later todayPAThe Greens have said that they will give Yousaf a vote of no confidence next week, however, sources predicted that Scotland's First Minister will still "come out fighting".
Yousaf announced yesterday his plans to step away from his party's coalition with the Greens, after a dispute over climate policies.
The Greens were angered when the Scottish Net Zero Secretary Mairi McAllan announced last week the Scottish Government was to ditch a key climate change target.
That, combined with the decision to pause the use of puberty blockers for new patients attending the only Scottish gender identity clinic for children in Glasgow, resulted in the Greens saying that they would have a vote on the future of the power-sharing deal.
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Then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (centre) and Scottish Green Party co-leaders Patrick Harvie (left) and Lorna Slater (right) at Bute House, Edinburgh at the signing in 2021
PAThe Bute House Agreement has subsequently been dropped following an emergency Cabinet meeting at Bute House in Edinburgh yesterday morning.
The deal, which was signed in 2021 and is named after the official residence of the Scottish First Minister in Edinburgh, brought the Green Party into government for the first time anywhere in the UK.
The scrapping of the deal prompted the Scottish Tories to table a vote of no confidence in him.
Without the agreement, the SNP will have to function as a minority administration at Holyrood.
Douglas Ross told MSPs at First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood his party had said from the start that agreement between the SNP and the Greens was a "coalition of chaos" and that it had now "ended in chaos".
He said: "I can confirm today that on behalf of the Scottish Conservatives I am lodging a vote of no confidence in Humza Yousaf."
The First Minister of Scotland was scheduled to deliver an address on the labour market in an independent Scotland
PAA former SNP MSP told GB News yesterday that they are being forced to "consider carefully" whether or not to topple the Scottish First Minister.
Alba Party MSP Ash Regan, who defected from the SNP just six months after running to replace Sturgeon as First Minister, could now decide the future of politics in Holyrood.
An Alba Party source told GB News: "That is a decision for Ash to consider carefully.
"She intends to write to the First Minister tomorrow morning to set out her position."
