Let’s open it up,” she said at a food market in Altrincham, a town in the south-west of Greater Manchester. Geraldine Coggins is the Green Party pick. Coggins’ pitch is that Greater Manchester needs a mayor to stand up to government — rather than a “Labour apologist,” a term she used to describe Craig. Voters will be asked to pick a first and second preference. If no candidate gets 50 percent or more of first preference votes, all but the top two candidates will be eliminated.