Local Green Party activist Matt Funiciello, who ran for Congress in 2014 and 2016, announced Tuesday he will not run again in 2018.

“I really think that the amount of time that it takes and the amount of money that it takes to be able to do this full time — I know that I am not in it this cycle,” Funiciello, a bread company owner who lives in Hudson Falls, said in a telephone interview Tuesday after he announced his decision in a post on his political Facebook page.

Funiciello said the Green Party will definitely have a candidate running in the 21st Congressional District in 2018, and most likely a party primary.

“I am pretty confident that we will probably have a primary,” he said. “There are two people that are seriously interested.”

Funiciello would not identify the potential candidates or say what counties they are from because the candidates have asked him not to disclose their identity until after the November local elections.

“I will say that they are both women,” he said.

Funiciello received 11 percent of the vote in 2014 and 4.4 percent in 2016, placing third twice in races that U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Willsboro, won.