Wales Green Party
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Wales Green Party
Plaid Werdd Cymru |
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| Leader | Grenville Ham |
| Deputy Leader | Pippa Bartolotti |
| Wales Young Greens Co-chairs | Andrew Creak, Ramona Sharples |
| Welsh Green Pride Spokesperson | Ash Jones |
| Headquarters | Cardiff, Wales |
| Ideology | Green politics |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| European affiliation | European Green Party |
| International affiliation | Global Greens |
| European Parliament group | The Greens–European Free Alliance |
| Colours | Green |
| Website | |
| www.walesgreenparty.org.uk | |
The Wales Green Party (WGP; Welsh: Plaid Werdd Cymru) is a semi-autonomouspolitical party within the Green Party of England and Wales. It covers Wales, and is the only regional party with semi-autonomous status within the GPEW. The WGP contests elections for the National Assembly for Wales (as well as at the local, UK and European level) and has its own newsletters, membership list, AGMs and manifesto.
The WGP leader is Grenville Ham, and the Deputy Leader is Pippa Bartolotti. Wales is represented internally within the GPEW by Chris Simpson and Chris Carmichael on the Green Party Regional Council, and the WGP Leader on the GPEW executive. Both sets of positions are directly elected by postal ballot. Wales-wide decisions are taken by the Wales Green Party Council made up of the spokespeople, senior officers, and a representative from each local party.
The current Leader of the party is Grenville Ham and the current Deputy Leader is Pippa Bartolotti. Wales is represented internally within the GPEW by Chris Simpson and Jim Scott. on the Green Party Regional Council (GPRC).
The Green Parties in the United Kingdom have their roots in the PEOPLE Party which was founded in 1973. This became the Ecology Party three years later, and then the Green Party in 1985. In 1990, the Scottish and Northern Irish branches left the UK Greens to form separate parties. The English and Welsh parties became the Green Party of England and Wales, with the Welsh branch being semi-autonomous.
At the 1992 general election, local Greens entered an electoral alliance with Plaid Cymru in the constituency of Ceredigion and Pembroke North. The alliance was successful with Cynog Dafis being returned in a surprise result as the MP, defeating the Liberal Democrat incumbent by over 3,000 votes. The agreement broke down by 1995 following disagreement within the Welsh Green Party over endorsing another party's candidate, though Dafis would go on to serve in parliament as a Plaid Cymru member until 2000, and in the National Assembly of Wales from 1999 until 2003. Dafis later stated that he did not consider himself to be the "first Green MP".
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