We asked every party represented on Angus Council and at Holyrood to respond to your burning questions for the local election on May 5 – but not all of them wanted to take the challenge.
An empty chair was kept aside for administration leader David Fairweather, who had declined to take part because of “negative reporting”.
His partners in coalition, the Conservatives, were also unable to put up a single member of the current administration to discuss its record.
But other candidates did take part in this latest episode of our special election series covering each local authority in Courier Country.
Your questions for the Angus Council election candidates
In the Angus special, candidates discussed everything from parking charges to senior Conservative councillors being unmasked by The Courier as running anonymous anti-SNP troll accounts.
To help you make an informed decision at the ballot box, we put your questions to:
- Beth Whiteside – SNP group leader
- Ben Lawrie – Liberal Democrat councillor
- Iain Gall – Scottish Conservative candidate
You can find a full list of the candidates standing in Angus here.
We will have more election debates for each of the local authority areas we cover.
It started with Dundee, followed by Angus, then onto Perth and Kinross, and Fife.
The election is on May 5 across Scotland’s 32 council areas.
The count begins by 9am on May 6, with a full round of results expected that afternoon.
We’ll be bringing you all the top stories and changes at the top on our sites and in print.
And we’ll keep you up to date with the national implications.
