Gail Sheridan has stood for office previously, in 2003 Tommy Sheridan’s wife Gail is to stand for election to the Scottish Parliament, the BBC understands.
The wife of the disgraced ex-leader of the Scottish Socialist Party plans to run as a candidate for the Solidarity party in the May poll.
Last month, Mr Sheridan was convicted of perjury following a 12-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
He is due to be sentenced on 26 January and Mrs Sheridan is expected to make a formal announcement after that.
She had also been accused of perjury but was acquitted of all the charges against her.
It is believed the 46-year-old will be placed at the top of Solidarity’s Glasgow list.
The party was founded in 2006, shortly after Mr Sheridan won his defamation action against the News of the World which accused him of attending a swingers’ club.
But in December last year, a jury found Mr Sheridan guilty of lying under oath during his defamation action against the paper.
Mr Sheridan failed to be re-elected in the 2007 Holyrood election as top of Solidarity’s list nominees for Glasgow.
The party also stood a candidate in by-elections in Glasgow East and Glenrothes in 2008, and Mr Sheridan himself stood again in the Glasgow North East by-election in 2009, winning just 3.9% of the vote.
Mrs Sheridan was an activist in the SSP from 1999 to 2006, and has stood for office before, contesting the Glasgow Cardonald seat in a council election in 2003.
The former air hostess increased the SSP’s vote, but lost out to Labour.
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