The professional-independence Scottish Nationwide Occasion on Monday elected Humza Yousaf, the nation’s well being secretary, as its prime official, placing the 37-year-old minister on monitor to change into the primary Muslim to guide a democratic western European nation.
Mr. Yousaf emerged with a slender victory in a bruising management race that adopted the shock resignation final month of Nicola Sturgeon, who had dominated Scottish politics for nearly a decade because the nation’s first minister and chief of the…