2019 Green Party leadership election (Ordennya)

2019 Green Party leadership election

30 May 2019

Candidate Clas Markussen

Leader before election Niamh Cooper Elected Leader Clas Markussen

The 2019 Green Party leadership election was held on the 30th of May 2019, after Niamh Cooper was forced to resign after the Green Party's lacklustre results in state and local elections. Deputy leader Clas Markussen was elected unopposed. Originally scheduled to be held in July, the campaign was interrupted after a snap election was called for that June. At an extraordinary federal convention called to approve the Party's manifesto for the election on the 30th of May, delegates voted to suspend the rules of the leadership election and invest Markussen as leader by acclamation, after an agreement was made with party backbenchers that Markussen would lead the party for the duration of the election campaign and would step down after. This, however, never occured, as the Greens unexpectedly won the election, and formed a government with Markussen as leader.

Candidates

Declared

The following declared intentions to run for the leadership before the federal election was called.

• Clas Markussen, acting Leader of the Green Party, Shadow Secretary of State for Finance
• Albert H. Montpelier, former Deputy Leader of the Green Party, former Secretary of State for Business & Industry
• Petra Berntsen, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy, Environment & Climate Change
• Grete Abrahamsen, Shadow Secretary of State for Transport & Infrastructure

Declined

• Tomasz Karlsson, Shadow Secretary of State for Housing & Urban Development
• Loke Mathisen, Special Adviser to Clas Markussen, parliamentary candidate for Christianborg.
• Niamh Cooper, former Leader of the Green Party
• Zakarias Lundin, Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Industrial Strategy