{"id":19202,"date":"2026-04-25T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/19202\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:26:08","slug":"greens-government-support-not-cost-free-says-welsh-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/19202\/","title":{"rendered":"Green’s government support not cost-free, says Welsh leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Green Party have said they won’t provide support for the next Welsh government “just because they’re not Reform”.<\/p>\n

Welsh leader Anthony Slaughter doesn’t expect to be first minister but hopes to gain enough seats to play a crucial role in helping the biggest party form a government in next month’s election.<\/p>\n

Speaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast<\/a>, Slaughter said “our support for a future Welsh government doesn’t come cost free”.<\/p>\n

He said that the party’s number one priority in any negotiation would be “protecting tenants, making rental easier and fairer”.<\/p>\n

The party promised to freeze rents for a year before giving councils powers to apply caps on what tenants pay and also wants to scrap council tax and build more social housing.<\/p>\n

They also want to cap bus fares to \u00a31 for most people, with free travel for under 22s, as well as restoring and protecting nature.<\/p>\n

“People are really hurting out there at the moment and we have to make life better for them,” he said.<\/p>\n

“People are paying over-the-odds rent for often uninhabitable homes, damp and mouldy. They’re struggling to pay their bills.”<\/p>\n

It is unlikely that any single party will win a majority under the new voting system<\/a> for the Senedd election, which aims to better reflect how people vote.<\/p>\n

As a result, parties may have to come to some kind of agreement before a first minister can be elected.<\/p>\n

They Green Party have never won a seat in the Welsh Parliament, but Slaughter said he was confident of having a “significant group of Greens in the next Senedd” adding that “there is no seat in Wales where it’s not possible that we could win a seat”.<\/p>\n

But he denied that their candidates lacked political experience, adding: “I have experience of working for a living. I have experience of bad housing.<\/p>\n

“We have candidates across Wales with real life experience. And what have those politically experienced people, delivered for us?<\/p>\n

“Twenty seven years of managed decline, highest child poverty rates in the UK, most degraded natural environment.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think their experience counts for much.”<\/p>\n

The Greens have ruled out working with Reform in the Senedd but insist they won’t “support the future Welsh government just because they’re not Reform or Welsh Labour”.<\/p>\n

“We will have clear objectives that we want, and I take a lot of lessons from my colleagues in the Scottish Green Party… because they’ve been there and done this.”<\/p>\n

But he denied they were selling themselves short and that a Plaid Cymru-led government could rely on their support whatever happens, stressing that “our support for a future Welsh government doesn’t come cost free”.<\/p>\n

And he implied that they would want some of their key policies implemented in return.<\/p>\n

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