GREENS will push for a 50-50 gender balance among candidates for next year’s local and assembly elections, deputy party leader Amelia Womack announced yesterday. 

According to this year’s report on female presence in political structures by Counting Women In, the Greens already hold the record for highest proportion of female candidates at the general election. 

Ms Womack, who will be running for a seat in the Welsh Assembly, said she was “immensely proud” of her party’s stance on women’s equality.