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A MAN has been charged by police for staring at Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in her office.

Dogan Arslan, 47, is accused of staring at the SNP politician and her constituency office in Glasgow’s

Pollokshaws Road from a parked car outside.

Arslan, from the city’s Battlefield, is alleged to have carried out the offence between last October and December.

He is due to appear at the city’s sheriff court this week where he’s accused of causing “fear and alarm” to people including Sturgeon. Court papers say he “repeatedly loitered” within a car and stared at the office and Sturgeon.

Arslan was arrested last year and appeared at court on December 14 where he made no plea or declaration and was bailed.

The case has since been reduced to summary level, meaning it will be heard in front of a sheriff only and no jury.

Sturgeon, 43, from Irvine, Ayrshire, has been Deputy First Minister since 2007 and deputy leader of the SNP since 2004.

The former lawyer became MSP for the Glasgow region in 1999, winning the Govan constituency in 2007 and is now the MSP for Glasgow Southside.

Meanwhile, Sturgeon has backed Holyrood legislation allowing public sector bosses to refuse work to firms who use controversial zero-hours contracts.

She said the legislation promotes an approach that is “both business- friendly and socially responsible”.

Unions and others have criticised the use of zero-hours contracts, under which people do not know if they have work from one week to the next.

New legislation being brought in aims to reform the way the public sector buy in goods and services.

Guidance being introduced as part of the Procurement Reform Bill could allow for the approach a company takes to workforce matters, such as whether they use the contracts, to be taken into consideration when assessing if they should be awarded work.

Similarly, public sector bosses could consider whether firms use blacklisting or pay their staff the

living wage when deciding who to award a contract to.