Voters in next week's local government election don't want a rehash of last year's Stormont poll, according to Greens leader Mal O'Hara.
The Green Party is fielding 37 candidates in May 18's poll.
The party had eight councillors elected in 2019, however, Lisburn and Castlereagh representative Simon Lee subsequently defected to the SDLP.
Speaking at the party's manifesto launch in Belfast on Wednesday, leader Mal O'Hara said that while much campaigning had focused on the protocol and Stormont's suspension, the election was about council issues.
"People are going to look at the delivery of local council services," he said.
"They're going to want a return to basics in terms of cleansing, investment in parks, public spaces, things that councils are responsible for - the living wage, community energy schemes, challenging our planning to be much stronger.
"That's the issues that matter to people on the door, rather than a rebrand or a rehash of the Stormont election last year."
Contesting his first election as leader since succeeding Clare Bailey last year, Mr O'Hara said the Greens had gained new energy since their loss of two MLAs in the assembly election.
He said next week's poll was not a "do-or-die election".
The Belfast councillor said the Greens were not a "one-issue" party and that it has been ahead of the larger parties on social issues in the past.
"Expect in five years to see this manifesto in everybody else's manifesto, as is always the way with our party," he said.
"We fight the hard fights when ideas are unpopular or novel or potentially controversial and, once the hard work is done, others adopt them."
The Greens' manifesto includes plans for all councils to have net-zero climate targets, devolving more powers to local government and advocating for a citizens assembly on drug policy.
