THE Greens are the latest party to launch their Brecon and Radnorshire Welsh Assembly election campaign.
Party leader Natalie Bennett visited the constituency with local candidate Grenville Ham and visited a number of renewable energy sites currently being constructed in the constituency.
The party is insisting it can win its first ever seats in the Assembly with its best hope of wining representation in Cardiff Bay through the regional list system which is decided by a form of proportional representation.
Voters are able to cast two votes in Assembly election, one for their constituency AM, and the other for a party which nominate four members in each of the five electoral regions across Wales.
The regional seats are decided by a form of proportional representation and are intended to reflect support for a party across the electoral region.
Alice Hooker-Stroud, the leader of the Wales Green Party from Machynlleth, holds the top spot on the Green Party list with Mr Ham in second position.
The four Mid and West Wales seats are currently held by Labour, which has two AMs, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats.
But the Greens and Ukip are hopeful of stealing a seat from the established four parties.
Ms Bennett said: "Across the UK and further afield we see the positive impacts that the Green Party have made in councils, parliaments and assemblies.
"It’s time to break the one-party state mentality in Wales and shake up the Senedd. The Wales Green Party have never been closer to getting green voices into the Assembly."
Ms Bennett launched the campaign whilst visiting a cluster of farm-based hydropower schemes between Crai and Trecastle alongside a meeting with local residents in Crickhowell to discuss local businesses and the Wales Green Party’s economic plan.
Brecon and Radnorshire candidate, Mr Ham, who is an award-winning businessman from Brecon, designed all of the green energy sites visited by the Green Party leaders.
Welsh leader Ms Hooker-Stroud said: "We are launching our campaign to send out a loud message: no more cuts to public services. From public transport, to our healthcare and education, it’s time to put the public first. We have the means to create a Wales we want to see right here, right now. Voting Green in May means that we can start to build real change."
Meanwhile Labour’s regional candidate Eluned Morgan has urged voters to take their second vote "seriously".
Eluned Morgan is hoping to win one of the two seats currently held by Labour.
Joyce Watson, who has represented Mid and West Wales since 2007, holds the top place on the Labour list.
Ms Morgan had previously represented Mid and West Wales in the European Parliament, when she was elected as its youngest member in 1994.
She was returned to the parliament, representing all of Wales, on three successive occasions before stepping down at the 2009 elections and taking a seat in the House of Lords.
Ms Morgan: "The model of elections to the Assembly is quite complex, and people need to understand that on May 5 they will have two votes, one for the constituency and one for the regional list.
"I hope that people will take the second regional list vote as seriously as the constituency vote.
"I am very keen to point out that the person at the top of the list for UKIP and therefore most likely to be elected is Neil Hamilton the failed Tory MP.
"If people are determined to vote for one of the other parties on the constituency seat, I would ask them to lend their vote to Labour on the regional list in order to stop UKIP from gaining a toe hold in the region."