Responding to comments by Welsh Conservative Leader Andrew RT Davies that a potential election pact between the Greens, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats was 'embarrassing' and 'taking the electorate for granted', Wales Green Party Leader Alice Hooker-Stroud said:
"I'm not surprised to see this sort of backwards rhetoric from the Conservatives, a party which depends on our outdated electoral system to cling to power in Westminster.
"Greens stand for grown up, inclusive, pluralist politics. Parties with different priorities but common ground should be working together to fix our broken electoral system, and give voters a real alternative to make a better Wales.
If this alliance had gone ahead, it would have been done openly, and transparently. We think the appetite is there for an alliance like this, but it would have been for the people of Wales to decide. There's nothing dishonest about giving people a real choice.
If Wales has a fairer future, it will be on the back of an alliance of parties sharing a majority of the vote. Not a government that wields majority power on a minority of votes, as the Tories do in Westminster.
Of course the Conservatives attack the new politics. Without the old politics they would be finished."