Saskatchewan's Green Party leadership race is underway, and one Swift Current woman has put her bid in for the position.

Maria Rose Lewans of Swift Current is one of three candidates up for the position alongside Naomi Hunter and George Wooldridge.

They are campaigning to replace Interim Saskatchewan Green Party Leader Richard Jack.

The role is being contested right now, and over the weekend multiple Saskatchewan Green Party candidate forums were held around the southwest Saskatchewan area.

Morse, Swift Current, Eastend, Shaunavon and Maple Creek were all hosting the touring forum as the candidates made the rounds around the region.

Lewans said that she wanted to bring the forum to the southwest.

"We thought since I'm down here and it's another part of the rural area, we'd do Swift Current, and then I thought since they're driving all the way from Regina we may as well hit up a few spots before we head back, and I think it's good because rural Saskatchewan needs to be listened to."

Swift Current's conference had an attendance of around 7 people, while one came out to the Morse meeting.

Lewan's said that if she was elected to the role of Saskatchewan Green Party leader, she would be a spokesperson for moving away from a reliance on technology.

"I think we have to make radical changes if we're going to do anything of substance that makes a difference."

"I don't want to prolong this system of technological advancement because I don't think it's beneficial for anybody, I think we can see it in our schools and with our communication abilities and our social cohesion."

She is also an advocate for local, self-sustaining agriculture so that Saskatchewan residents could easily rely on themselves rather than the world economy for sustenance.

Lewans ran as an independent in the last federal election, but decided to run for the Saskatchewan Green Party leadership because of the opportunity to discuss the future of the party, and felt the provincial party better represented her views.

Naomi Hunter recently campaigned for the federal Green Party in the last election. She said that after her stint in federal politics, she said her heart was centred with being the leader of the Saskatchewan Green Party.

The northern Saskatchewan native ran in the Regina-Lewvan region for past October's election.

A farmer, teacher, silversmith, lapidarist, and seniors fitness instructor for the City of Regina, Hunter said that she was the best candidate to be the leader to be able to put a face to the party.

"I am the person best able to be that face to the public, I'm well known, I've had national film board films done about me. Part of the reason I did so well in the federal election is that so many people know me."

Involvement with numerous boards and communities would also make her recognizable, according to Hunter.

She said that she believes her momentum from the last federal election will continue for her leadership bid.

Hunter says she has ties to southwest Saskatchewan and is renewing those in her bid to become the party's leader.

"I think we need someone who not only has deep connections in the north, I'm connected in the south, I've lived in almost every part of Saskatchewan."

If she was to win, she added that she would want to take a tour of the province to spread the party's ideals.

Wooldridge said that his son made him want to run for the role.

"I want him to inherit a province that's as least as good as the one I've enjoyed, and right now we're in the generational stage where the upcoming generation is actually seeing so much regression whether it's economic, environmental, even political."

"We're in a really sad situation in Saskatchewan where we desperately need a democratic revolution."

"Thanks to the Sask Party and the NDP, we've been stuck in the same place for 30 years."

"We've been totally devoid of any originality, The only thing that the Sask Party has done is that when Donald Trump was elected, they decided, 'now's the time when we can just take away our veneer of respectability and sanity and become unspeakable right-wing thugs'."

He said that he thought there was a growing hunger for change in southwest Saskatchewan and would be happy to represent the region's voice in that way.

"I think southwest Saskatchewan should get the benefits of its money, it should get the benefit of its resources, and also the new economy because there is tons of wind and sun here."

The party is hosting a leadership convention in Regina on February 29 where the race will come to a close.