New Greens Leadership Announced as Australia Prepares to go to the Polls

^{BY VETERAN ELECTION COMMENTATOR JAMES JAMESONSON}

THE GREENS political party has announced two new co-leaders in u/Aussie-Parliament-RP and u/TheTrashMan_10, who take over from u/model-slater and u/model-kyosanto.

The move comes less than a week before the next election, to be held on Saturday 4 December. The Greens were the major coalition partner in the Greens-Country-Sensible Team government and were previously tipped to be easily re-elected. However with the loss of their two former leaders, the party is now at serious threat of sustaining mass casualties at the ballot box.

Speaking in a press conference, co-leader u/Aussie-Parliament-RP said 'The Greens have the political philosophy and the political will to deliver another successful government, and alongside our allies I do believe that we can do so.'

Co-leader u/TheTrashMan_10 publicly acknowledged that the party was likely to sustain a bruising in the election, saying 'Looking out, while we may have had some losses, the greens are still stronger than ever.'

Neither leader committed to any policy proposals, instead saying that the party was 'committed to the core tenets of the party; Social Justice, Ecological Wisdom, Grassroots Democracy and Nonviolence'.

Speaking to the National Review, Labor leader and Leader of the Opposition u/dyljam said that he wished the new leaders well.

'Of course, I will always seek to work with all elected representatives on legislation as it comes before parliament as we seek to make Australia work for hard-working Australians,' he said.

However, the goodwill between the Labor leader and Greens co-leadership may already be in peril, with u/dyljam and u/TheTrashMan_10 engaging in a war of words on Twitter.

When questioned over the remarks, u/dyljam said he had 'no hard feelings' against u/TheTrashMan_10.

'While it was well known that I had no personal trust in the former prime minister, I nonetheless look upon this opportunity to begin my relationship with the Greens afresh.' NR