TIME4CHANGE campaigner Montfort Tadier is to stand for Senator.

The 29-year-old, who runs a translation company, is standing on a platform of reform and rescinding decisions on GST and the proposed £100 million incin-erator. He is one of two founding memb-ers of the Time4-Change group to announce his candidacy today. Nick Le Cornu is also standing for a six-year term.

Mr Tadier said the States had to change the way it works to win back the confidence of voters. He said: ‘I believe that electoral and governmental reform are imperative if Jersey is to regain its respect-ability in the eyes of the world. We need a new type of politics that focuses on policies, not personalities. I also think that this would encourage more women into government, an issue at present.’

He said that he supported a general election for all Members, and pledged to step down in three years to fight his seat again instead of serving the full six years. Mr Tadier, who lives in St Brelade, was educated at Les Quennevais and Hautlieu, and attended the Universities of Berlin and Sheffield.

He added that he would fight the Council of Ministers agenda of population growth — he says that this has affected planning decisions — and the decision to build a huge new incinerator. Mr Tadier said: ‘The government got it wrong about the incinerator. And the Island’s infrastructure is struggling to house 90,000 people at the moment, let alone 120,000.’