The Scottish Parliament will hold a no confidence vote on the Scottish Government on Wednesday.
Scottish Labour tabled the motion which, if passed, would mean all Scottish ministers are required to stand down.
The Scottish Tories and Lib Dems have backed the motion but without support from the Greens it would be defeated.
First Minister Humza Yousaf announced on Monday he would stand down as he faced two confidence votes in Holyrood but said he would stay on to allow a successor to be chosen.
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said his party would press ahead with a motion of no confidence in the Scottish Government, saying he did not think the SNP is capable of ‘stable, competent government’.
On the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland radio programme, he said the SNP ‘has become so chaotic, so divided, so dysfunctional that they aren’t able to give this country the stable credible leadership it needs’.
Mr Sarwar went on: ‘I actually think an election is the only way to stop the chaos because I think we have a wider issue here. Clearly I think there is a democratic deficit in terms of the SNP trying to impose yet another unelected first minister on the country, probably by some kind of back room deal at worst, at best going to a handful of SNP party members.
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‘But there is a wider issue here. I actually now think the SNP, just like the Conservative Party in many ways across the UK, has become so chaotic, so divided, so dysfunctional that they aren’t able to give this country the stable credible leadership it needs.’
It was put to him that his motion would fall given the Scottish Greens will not back it.
He said: ‘It’s of course for other political parties to decide how they vote in that motion, but I think the principle still applies in our motion and that’s why we’re pushing ahead.’
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