FF, FG should know Greens willing to walk away from government – Catherine Martin

Addressing an online party “hustings” where she is challenging the leadership of, Ms Martin said she believed she had shown the other parties during the negotiations over the programme for government, in which she was one of the party’s negotiators, “how hard a deal maker” she was.

What happened at Cabinet was heavily influenced by the work that was done before an issue came to Cabinet, he said.The state was facing into what was probably its most difficult year in living memory, with the Covid-19 crisis and Brexit, and while this created huge challenges, it also created the opportunity “to do things differently.”

Ms Martin said that the party had to appeal to people’s hearts as well as their heads, and not scare them with “apocalyptic visions”. Social justice must come hand in hand with climate justice. “I do feel that now is the time for change,” Ms Martin said. A new leader was needed “to ensure the same mistakes” are not made as were made the last time the party was in government.

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