General Election Candidates selected
Green Party Candidates selected for the next General election
Cardiff South and Penarth Anthony Slaughter
Cardiff East Sam Coates
Cardiff North Meg Shepherd-Foster
Cardiff West Jess Ryan
Pontypridd Angela Karadog
Vale of Glamorgan Lynden Mack
Anthony Slaughter
Anthony is the Wales Green Party leader, currently serving his second term, having previously served two terms as Deputy leader.
Sam Coates
Sam served as a Green Party councillor on Oxfordshire county council before returning to Cardiff. He is employed as a Senior Digital Communications Manager.
Meg Shepherd-Foster
Together with her partner, Meg set up four community fencing clubs in South Wales and coached dozens of athletes who have gone on to represent Wales and Great Britain. They won a ‘Roaring Dragon Award’ and she was named a ‘Local Hero’ for services to the community.
Jess Ryan
Jess is a keen cyclist who works as a software engineer in the energy industry. She has volunteered extensively with charities including TeamUp and CoderDojo working to tackle educational disadvantage in the UK. Now she is researching the application of computational tools towards making the energy grid greener.
Angela Karadog
Angela is a Green Party Town Councillor for Cilfynydd on Pontypridd Town Council. She works as the European education project coordinator for a Pontypridd based education research company. In 2021 she instigated Pontypridd Green Week and has coordinated it yearly since then.
Lynden Mack
Lynden is active in a number of local campaigning and environmental organisations such as Friends of the Earth, the Docks Incinerator Action Group (DIAG), Barry Action on Nature and Birch Grove Wood Conservation group. Currently a househusband, he previously worked in the third sector, managing communication services for deaf BSL users and hearing impaired people.
