Edinburgh’s young members of the Green Party, today launched a bid to encourage students from the Capital to give their second vote to the Scottish Green Party.
Students from the Lothian Greens have promised to visit thousands of student residents before the polls, which are to held in two weeks.
Scottish Greens are making students their priority after pledging to keep education free in Scotland.
The political party have also publicly backed the National Union of Students commitments on funding and supporting students.
Convener of the Edinburgh Young Greens, Dominic Hinde, explained why the Green Party was interested in preserving free education.
He said, “We’re not doing this so we can climb the political ladder or carry the first minister’s briefcase. We’re doing it because the Greens stand for the kind of social progress that will be of benefit to young people and won’t leave us high and dry in twenty years’ time.”
Lothian Green Party candidate, Alison Johnstone, is pleased that student members of the Green Party are taking an active interest.
She said, “I’m so impressed with the passionate and thoughtful way our student members are taking these issues to the electorate – especially at such a busy time for their studies.”
She added, “They are the ones who are going to have to pick up the pieces of a trashed environment, a wrecked economy and untenable inequality unless we are prepared to act now. They’re showing a long term vision for Scotland that puts some of the establishment politicians to shame right now.”
