Wales Green Party

Wales Green Party
Plaid Werdd Cymru
LeaderAnthony Slaughter[1]
Co-deputy leadersPhil Davies[2]
Linda Rogers[3]
Founded1991 (1991)
(Semi-autonomous)[4]
Preceded byGreen Party (UK)
HeadquartersThe Gate
Keppoch Street
Cardiff
CF24 5TR[5]
Youth wingWales Young Greens
LGBT wingWelsh Green Pride
Membership (October 2024)Increase 2,006 [6]
Ideology
Political positionLeft-wing[8][9]
European affiliationEuropean Green Party
International affiliationGlobal Greens
UK Parliament affiliationGreen Party of England and Wales
(Semi-autonomous)
Cooperate with (but are independent from) the Scottish Greens and Green Party Northern Ireland
Colours  Green
House of Commons
(Welsh seats)
0 / 40
Senedd
0 / 60
Local government[10][11]
8 / 1,234
Website
wales.greenparty.org.uk

The Wales Green Party (Welsh: Plaid Werdd Cymru) is a semi-autonomous political party within the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW).[12] It covers Wales, and is the only regional party with semi-autonomous status within the GPEW.[12] The Wales Green Party puts up candidates for council, Senedd, and UK Parliament seats.

  1. ^ "Green Party of Wales Spokespeople". wales.greenparty.org.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Cwmbrân local, 28, is new Welsh Greens deputy leader". wales.greenparty.org.uk. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  3. ^ Price, Emily (19 June 2024). "Welsh Green Party launch manifesto". Nation.Cymru. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  4. ^ Frankland, EG; Lucardie, A; Rihoux, B (2008). Green parties in transition. The end of grass-roots democracy?. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing.
  5. ^ "Contact Us". Wales Green Party.
  6. ^ "Anthony Slaughter re-elected Wales Green Party leader". Bright Green. 26 October 2024.
  7. ^ "Green Party of England and Wales elects new leaders". europeangreens.edu. European Green Party. Archived from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  8. ^ The IndependentElection 2015: The Green Party want to give disgruntled left-wing voters a new voice Archived 25 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Author – Morris, Nigel. The Independent [online]. Date retrieved 5 March 2015. Date published 3 September 2014.
  9. ^ Bakker, Ryan; Jolly, Seth; Polk, Jonathan (14 May 2015). "Mapping Europe's party systems: which parties are the most right-wing and left-wing in Europe?". London School of Economics / EUROPP – European Politics and Policy. Archived from the original on 26 May 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  10. ^ "Wales Local Elections 2022". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  11. ^ "Open Council Data UK – compositions councillors parties wards elections". www.opencouncildata.co.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  12. ^ a b E. Gene Frankland; Paul Lucardie; Benoît Rihou, eds. (2008). Green Parties in Transition: The End of Grass-roots Democracy?. Ashgate.

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