{"id":569530,"date":"2026-05-06T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/569530\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:36:09","slug":"candidates-final-day-of-campaigning-ahead-of-welsh-senedd-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/569530\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates&#8217; final day of campaigning ahead of Welsh Senedd election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens campaigning in Cardiffpublished at 14:24 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:24 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\">David Deans<br \/>BBC Wales politics reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh Green leader Anthony Slaughter is out campaigning in Cardiff today &#8211; we are expecting UK leader Zack Polanski to join him later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Greens have described themselves as potential kingmakers to a future Welsh government, implying they could decide who becomes first minister. They have ruled out working with Reform, but not Plaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Slaughter told the BBC: \u201cI\u2019ve said throughout the campaign, cooperation and collaboration is in our DNA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will always talk to like-minded people where there are areas of common ground because the crises facing us are so challenging we do need to take urgent action. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I\u2019ve also said our support for any future Welsh government in whatever shape or form that takes doesn\u2019t come without a cost. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I\u2019ve said we\u2019ve got Green objectives &#8211; we need to see our objectives delivered, that\u2019s the price of our support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anthony Slaughter\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5ae78fe9-8156-4d55-8ec1-9029b3c3a832.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2234\" height=\"1257\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greens campaigning in Cardiffpublished at 14:24 BST 14:24 BST David DeansBBC Wales politics reporter Welsh Green leader Anthony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-569530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}