It means Ms Forbes, who served as finance secretary under Nicola Sturgeon's administration, will return to Holyrood's backbenches.
If she had moved to rural affairs it would have been seen as a major demotion, one which Forbes backer and former health secretary Alex Neil branded an "insult and not a real effort to unite", adding: "A poor start."
Ms Forbes narrowly missed out on the leadership, claiming 47.9 per cent of the vote in the second round. Ash Regan was eliminated in the first round with 11 per cent of the vote.
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