Alex Salmond has revealed he is "not finished with parliamentary politics" in Scotland just yet while claiming the SNP Government has "virtually nothing" on independence.
The former First Minister is not standing in the local council elections which take place next month, but hopes to be elected to the Scottish Parliament at the next opportunity.
Speaking on Good Morning Scotland Salmond, who is the leader of the Alba Party, also said more needs to be done by the government on independence.
Alba is putting up 111 candidates across the country on May 5 and Salmond hopes "they all win".
Salmond will be hoping to get a better result than last year's Holyrood election where he failed to get elected in the North East region and his pro-independence party got less than two per cent of the national vote.
During the radio interview Salmond was asked what his plans were for the future, he replied: "I'm not finished with parliamentary politics. Alba's main target is the Scottish parliamentary elections.
"If I'm leading Alba then I wouldn't rule out standing in the Scottish parliamentary elections but let's see how things develop in this selection.
"We go into this election with 111 candidates with high hopes and brave hearts."
Salmond also urged the Scottish Government to ramp up independence work and claimed Sturgeon's regime had done "virtually nothing" on it for the last eight years.
He said: "I hear politicians say that the Scottish Government's obsessed with independence but there is a large body of opinion in Scotland who think that far from being obsessed by independence virtually nothing has been done about it for the last eight years.
"That's the opinion of Alba, we see independence as an urgent priority - something for the here and now, not for the hereafter."
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