Wales Green Party have welcomed the ITV Wales Yougov (1) opinion poll giving the Greens 9% in South Wales Central National Assembly Region putting the party on target to elect its 1st Assembly Member in the region comprising Cardiff, the Vale and Rhondda Valleys. Greens received 6.4% across the Region the last time an election was held using proportional representation during the 2009 European elections with 8% across Cardiff. For Greens to make history and be elected to the Assembly for the first time they would need to receive between 7 and 8% across South Wales Central.

Jake Griffiths Wales Green Party Leader said”The Yougov poll gives Greens real hope of electing our first Green Assembly Members in next years elections. Greens in the Welsh Assembly would be joining Caroline Lucas who was elected as Britain’s first Green MP in this year’s General Election and Green Colleagues in Northern Ireland, Scotland and the European Parliament.”

He continued “Green AMs are needed to challenge the devastating cuts to public services being imposed by Westminster and to get Wales onto the path for a low-carbon economy. Our policies would create jobs to beat the recession as well as tackling climate change effectively, and these ideas must be heard in the Assembly chamber if we hope for them to become reality. Caroline Lucas, our first MP has already made her place in asking difficult questions that MPs from the old parties shy away from. Green AMs would continue this tradition in truly holding the Welsh Government to account.”

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The National Assembly Elections are conducted using the Additional Member System. 40 AMs are elected in the same way as Westminster elections. 20 more ‘top-up’ AMs are elected across 5 regions of Wales to compensate for parties who missed out on constituencies. This means that small parties gaining around 7% of the vote can elect Assembly Members on the regional ballot.