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I think the Greens may want to offer an olive branch after the upheaval of the last week or so, and Swinney has had good relations with many if not all of them, boasting (justifiably) during his pitch that he's successfully worked in a minority government in the past (he got ten budgets passed when the SNP was a minority government earlier last decade).

Certainly, even out of government, the Greens have vastly more chance of furthering their agendas with an SNP First Minister than they would with Labour or the Tories (and with a general election in the offing, I'd imagine both parties' strategists are shuddering at the prospect of a Tory-Labour coalition or confidence and supply arrangement in Holyrood, which is why it was hard to take their calls for an early Holyrood election seriously).

And as I type, Swinney's been announced as the new SNP leader, having been unopposed.