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Zack Polanski has won the Greens leadership election by an overwhelming margin and will now become the sole head of the party.
Mr Polanski has won by 20,411 votes to 3,705 cast for the joint leadership bid of Mr Ramsay and Dr Ellie Chowns.
The London Assembly member, who is not an MP, will now become the party’s only leader, replacing the previous co-leader model that saw MPs Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer lead the Greens.
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He has beaten leadership rivals Mr Ramsay and Dr Chowns, both currently Green Party MPs, who ran on a joint ticket to be co-leaders and were seen as the continuity candidates – offering to build on the party’s success in the 2024 general election.
Mr Polanski, who is currently serving as deputy leader, has won the election on a platform to take the party in a different direction, with his offer of “eco-populism”, which he says will make the Greens a real alternative to Labour and Reform UK. He believes the party could do more to appeal to those on the progressive left.
He has said he wants to transform the party into a more visible, mass-membership movement, and told a hustings the Greens should combine “substance with clickbait”, alongside “storytelling”.
The results were announced at a news conference held in a community centre in Waterloo, London, on Tuesday, 2 September.
Speaking following his election, Mr Polanski promised to “work every single day to deliver environmental, social, racial and economic justice”.
He told members who didn’t vote for him that “we don’t have to agree on everything”, but said they have a “common cause” – to grow the party.
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