Married couple Yi-pei Chou Turvey and Michael Turvey top North East list

Scottish Liberal Democrats have today announced that Aberdeenshire councillor Yi-pei Chou Turvey and her husband Michael Turvey will be the top two candidates on the party’s regional list for the North East of Scotland at the forthcoming Scottish election.

Yi-pei won her council seat with the highest vote the party has ever achieved in that ward. She has campaigned on education and early years childcare, safer roads, health and social care and tackling the cost of living.

Michael has 17 years of experience working in the oil and gas industry where he is currently the Supply Chain Lead for the newest offshore hub in the North Sea.

The pair live in the countryside near Banchory.

Councillor Yi-pei Chou Turvey said:

“I live in Aberdeenshire and I am proud of the region’s culture, history and natural beauty.

“My constituents know me as “the hands-on councillor”, just as ready to help unblock a drain as raise an issue with the council.

“Working with communities has been at the heart of my decades of volunteering work and inspired me to get involved with politics.

“Michael and I are ambitious for the region. We will work together to deliver swift local access to healthcare and a real commitment to a fair deal for households from Dundee to Fraserburgh.”

Michael Turvey said:

“The North East is my home and I care deeply about its future. I have worked for almost two decades in the oil and gas industry which is so vital in our region but we have been forgotten and let down by the SNP.

“Far too many people are waiting on a GP or dentist. We have communities divided by broken bridges that the council cannot afford to fix, and people have died here due to insufficient flood defences and unsafe trunk roads.

“I know that Yi-pei and I have a strong partnership. Now we want to put that bond to work delivering a fair deal for everyone across the North East.”

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

“At the forthcoming election every single Scot will have a chance to elect local champions for their community.

“Yi-pei and Michael both know how important the North East is to Scotland’s economy and are determined to see it flourish.

“People in the North East should put their cross next to the Scottish Liberal Democrats on the peach regional list ballot to elect Yi-pei and Michael and end 18 years of SNP failure.”