A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics , such as environmentalism and social justice .
73-836: The Queensland Greens is a Green party in Queensland , Australia, and a state member of the Australian Greens . The party is currently represented in all three levels of government, by Larissa Waters and Penny Allman-Payne in the federal Senate ; Stephen Bates , Max Chandler-Mather , and Elizabeth Watson-Brown in the House of Representatives ; Michael Berkman in the state Legislative Assembly ; and Trina Massey and Seal Chong Wah in Brisbane City Council . The Greens were first founded in Queensland as
146-591: A Green liberal , does not lead a Green government, but a broad coalition government in which he is the only Green minister. There is a Papua New Guinea Greens Party , but it does not have any members in Parliament. There was briefly a Green Party in Fiji from 2008 to 2013; as Parliament was suspended by the military regime during this time, the party was not able to take part in any election before all parties were deregistered in 2013. The Green Party of Lebanon
219-517: A grassroots approach in organising members. The youth wing also shares the same policies as the Queensland Greens based around the four guiding principles of non-violence, social justice, grass-roots democracy and ecological sustainability. Green party Green party platforms typically embrace social democratic economic policies and form coalitions with other left-wing parties . Green parties exist in nearly 90 countries around
292-423: A given jurisdiction by a coalition of scientific ecologists , community environmentalists , and local (or national) leftist groups or groups concerned with peace or citizens rights. A Red-Green alliance is an alliance between Green parties and social democratic parties. Such alliances are typically formed for the purpose of elections (mostly in first-past-the-post election systems), or, after elections, for
365-486: A governing coalition, whilst the Green Party Northern Ireland has had success in the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly and local elections where the first-past-the-post system is not used. In countries where a party with similar ideals is stronger, such as Norway and Denmark, Green parties tend to perform worse. In some Eastern European countries, like Romania , Green parties are still in
438-717: A government with the largest parliamentary group - the Christian democratic GERB-SDS coalition. As mentioned above, the German green party holds strong influence in terms of green politics in Europe. The German green party: Alliance 90/The Greens ( Bündnis 90/Die Grünen ) was founded in 1993 after the West German green party (Die Grünen, formed in 1980) and the East German green party (Bündnis 90, formed in 1990) joined after
511-486: A high-water mark of 12.76 per cent at the 2010 federal election, which resulted in Larissa Waters becoming the first Greens representative elected to office in Queensland. Waters was re-elected to a three-year term in the 2016 election, but resigned in 2017 after discovering she held dual Canadian citizenship . The High Court ruled that her election was therefore invalid, and appointed Andrew Bartlett , convenor of
584-504: A large share of the vote (rarely polling above 10% at a national level). Their involvement in coalition governments is important in getting environmental issues on the political agenda, however they are often limited in the amount that they can succeed given they are not the majority within the alliance. Some national Green parties began forming in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, but they often struggled to gain influence. Wangari Maathai
657-557: A member of the BSP for Bulgaria (БСП за България, БСПзБ, BSPzB) coalition. After the elections all of them got into parliament, but a government wasn't formed. After the snap election, which also didn't form a government, Volt Bulgaria left ISBG and joined the We Continue The Change (Продължаваме промяната, ПП, PP) coalition, which won the election and formed a government with BSPzB, DB and the populist ITN. ITN withdrew from
730-529: A party and won a breakthrough in the German national elections of 1983. They were not the first Green Party in Europe to have members elected nationally but the impression was created that they had been, because they attracted the most media attention. This was partly due to their charismatic leader Petra Kelly , a German who was of interest to the American media because she had an American step-father. Since its foundation in 1980 and merger with Alliance 90 after
803-708: A predominantly environmental platform arose in the early 1970s in various parts of the world. The world's first political parties to campaign on a predominantly environmental platform were the United Tasmania Group , which contested the April 1972 state election in Tasmania , Australia, and the Values Party of New Zealand , which contested the November 1972 New Zealand general election . Their use of
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#1732798721004876-553: The 1993 , 1998 and 2004 federal elections as the party's lead Senate candidate. In 2004 the party received 5.4 per cent of the Senate vote, with Hutton narrowly losing the race for the final two Senate seats to Coalition candidates Barnaby Joyce and Russell Trood . This gave the Howard government a Senate majority and control of both parliamentary houses. The party's Senate vote continued to grow in subsequent elections, reaching
949-558: The 2009 election . In the 2017 state election , the Queensland Greens achieved their first ever state electoral victory. Following the abolition of the seats of Mt Coot-tha and Indooroopilly, environmental lawyer Michael Berkman narrowly won the newly-formed seat of Maiwar from the shadow treasurer Scott Emerson, a former cabinet member in the Newman government , who had defeated Ronan Lee in Indooroopilly eight years earlier. In
1022-470: The 2012 legislative election , in which they both won more seats than any other third party . In some countries Greens have found it difficult to win any representation in the national parliament. Three reasons can be found for this. It includes countries with a first past the post electoral system, such as the United Kingdom. However, despite the first past the post system in the United Kingdom,
1095-603: The 2020 Brisbane City Council election , the Greens were the only party to have a swing in their favour, at 3.3%. Jonathan Sriranganathan retained his ward with a 12.4% swing in primary vote and an overall two-party preferred vote of 65.5%. The Greens additionally entered the two-party preferred vote in 4 other wards where the party came close to unseating the Liberal candidates, including Central (45.2%), Paddington (49.6%), Pullenvale (40.6%) and Walter Taylor (47.7%). 21 out of
1168-548: The Australian House of Representatives . Since 2004 , they have received more votes than any other third party in every federal election. They also have representation in the upper and lower houses of state parliaments of five states and in the unicameral chamber of one territory. Greens also hold representative positions in local government across New Zealand and Australia (where a number of local government authorities are controlled by Green councilors). The Greens took
1241-598: The Brisbane Green Party in 1984, contesting four wards and for mayor in the 1985 Brisbane City Council elections. Following the collapse of the Brisbane Greens in 1986, the party began to re-form as the Queensland Greens under a national initiative, today's Australian Greens . The Queensland Greens were officially founded as a political party on 22 September 1991 as part of the national Greens alliance. Queensland Greens co-founder Drew Hutton ran in
1314-773: The Ecology Party and then the Green Party . Several other local political groups were founded in the beginning of the 1970s. Fons Sprangers was probably the first Green mayor in the world, elected in 1970 in Meer, and active until 2020 for the Flemish Greens. The first political party to use the name "Green" seems to have been the Lower Saxon " Green List for Environmental Protection ", founded on 1 September 1977. The first Green Party to achieve national prominence
1387-612: The European Green Party 's withdrawal of recognition of the PVEM as a legitimate green party. Bligh Ministry Anna Bligh was sworn in as Premier of Queensland on 13 September 2007 with her first ministry, replacing Peter Beattie , who had retired from politics, and his ministry . She subsequently won the 2009 state election with a reduced majority against the newly merged Liberal National Party of Queensland . Shortly thereafter, on 26 March 2009, Bligh reshuffled
1460-689: The Green Party in Ireland. In the Netherlands GroenLinks ("GreenLeft") was founded in 1990 from four small left-wing parties and is now a stable faction in the Dutch parliament. The Australian Greens supported a Labor minority government from 2010 to 2013, and have participated in several state governments. In 2022 Denmark , the Green Party The Alternative has only one Parliament member, having dropped from
1533-478: The Green Party of England and Wales won their first seat in the House of Commons when Caroline Lucas won the seat of Brighton Pavilion in 2010. In July 2024, after a targeted campaign, 4 Green MPs were elected in Bristol Central, Waveney Valley, North Herefordshire and Brighton Pavilion. The Scottish Greens have had success in the devolved Scottish Parliament having recently signed a deal to enter
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#17327987210041606-658: The Green Party of the United States in the U.S. Congress. Accordingly, in these countries, Green parties focus on electoral reform . In Mexico, however, the Partido Verde Ecologista , often abbreviated as PVEM, has 17 deputies and four senators in Congress as a result of the 2006 elections. Nevertheless, some of its political practices such as plead in favor of the death penalty in Mexico, led to
1679-740: The Irish Green Party , represented by six members of parliament or TDs , agreed to go into a coalition government for the first time in their history, with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats (the Progressive Democrats later dissolved as a party, though their members remained in parliament). The Green Party held two Cabinet seats, as well as two junior ministries , until their withdrawal from government in January 2011. They lost all of their six seats in
1752-468: The reunification of Germany . in 1998, Alliance 90/The Greens joined a coalition government with the SPD , forming a Red-Green alliance that would last until 2005. In order to agree to the coalition, Alliance 90/The Greens had 3 priorities: to reduce employment, close nuclear-power stations/Germany to not rely on nuclear power, and for citizenship laws to be reformed. The coalition remained in place following
1825-515: The 1970s, and with seats on the local council, held the balance of power in the city of Liege, so were the first to go into coalition with the ruling party on that council. In 1979 political campaigns and dissident groups feeling underrepresented in west German politics formed a coalition to contest the 1979 elections to the European Parliament. Although they did not win any seats, the groups in this association formally agreed to become
1898-619: The 2002 election. However, green policies were no longer considered to be a focal point so much, with unemployment growing and other economic issues being more pressing, leading to the rise of the CDU/CSU, and the eventual loss of a majority in parliament. Greens and the Left Party of the Future is a left-libertarian and green party in Turkey. It was founded on 25 November 2012 as a merger of
1971-569: The 2020 state election, the Greens gained an additional seat in parliament, bringing their total to two. While Berkman retained his seat of Maiwar, Amy MacMahon won the seat of South Brisbane from Labor's former deputy premier Jackie Trad . The Greens also had significant success in Cooper , with candidate Katinka Winston-Allom receiving 30 per cent of first preference votes, but losing to Labor's Jonty Bush after preferences were allocated. Greens candidate Jonathan Sriranganathan (then known as Sri)
2044-484: The 26 wards registered swings towards the Greens. In 2024, former Labor party state MP Rob Pyne was elected to Division 5 in the Cairns Regional Council as an independent councillor. He later resigned from Socialist Alliance and joined the Queensland Greens. The Queensland Greens do not currently have a parliamentary leader. The Queensland Greens constitution provides the method for an election of
2117-627: The GRAEL (Green Alternative European Link) group, also known as the Rainbow Group . Politically they engaged in the fight against environmental pollution, nuclear energy (1986 saw the Chernobyl disaster), the promotion of animal protection and the campaign against the demolition of Brussels by speculation fuelled by the presence of the European institutions. After years of co-operation between
2190-721: The German reunification, Kelly's party, now named Alliance '90/The Greens , has become one of Europe's most important Green parties. It played an important role in the formation of national-level Green parties in other countries such as Spain as well. The forerunner of the Green Party in the United Kingdom was the PEOPLE Party , formed in Coventry in 1972. It changed its name to the Ecology Party in 1973 and
2263-697: The Green Party in 1985. In 1984 Greens agreed a common platform for the European Parliament Elections and the first Green Members of the European Parliament were elected here. Germany, a stronghold of the Green movement, elected seven MEPs; two more came from Belgium and two from the Netherlands. As those eleven MEPs did not entitle the Greens to form a parliamentary group on their own, they concluded an alliance with MEPs from Italy, Denmark, and regionalists from Flanders and Ireland to form
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2336-588: The Green Party received only 16.71 percent of the vote. In the Estonia 2007 parliamentary elections , the Estonian Greens won 7.1 percent of the vote, and a mandate for six seats in the country's parliament, the Riigikogu . Other significant electoral results for European green parties include Germany's Alliance '90/The Greens in the 2002 federal election and France's Europe Ecology – The Greens in
2409-642: The Greens Party and the Equality and Democracy Party. Prominent members include Murat Belge, left-liberal political author and columnist for Taraf ; Kutluğ Ataman, filmmaker and contemporary artist; and Ufuk Uras, former Istanbul deputy and president of the Freedom and Solidarity Party. The party is one of the participants in the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding
2482-502: The Greens to his dissatisfaction with the Bligh government's environmental policies. Responding to Lee's change of party, Labor's Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability Andrew McNamara rejected his claims, calling the Bligh government "the greenest government that this state has ever had". Australian Greens leader Bob Brown praised Lee's decision saying, "Ronan Lee's move will give
2555-602: The MEP for Danish Socialist People's Party has left the Nordic Green Left parliamentary group and has joined the Green parliamentary group in the European parliament. The Socialist People's Party is currently an observer at the European Green Party and the Global Greens. Outside of Scandinavia, in 2004, Latvia became the first country in the world to have a Green politician become Head of Government, but in 2006
2628-779: The Mediterranean countries. These Green parties are now making electoral gains, e.g. in Spain, Greece and Republic of Cyprus , or getting organized to do so, e.g. in Malta . Therefore, the EGP is now turning its attention to Eastern Europe – all these countries have Green parties, but in materially poor Eastern Europe the success of Green Parties is patchy except for Hungary, where the local Green party, Politics Can Be Different (LMP), has been elected to parliament and many city councils. In 2021 Croatian local elections We can! party became
2701-524: The Peoples' Democratic Party in 2012. The Greens, along with feminists, left YSGP en masse in 2016, citing its lack of democratic decision making practices. They and a new generation of activists reestablished the Green Party (Yeşiller) in 2020. As of the 41st general election in Canada, held on May 2, 2011, there was only one federally elected member of the Green Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada , its leader Elizabeth May . However, at
2774-538: The Queensland Greens and former leader of the Australian Democrats , as her successor in the Senate. A year later, Bartlett resigned his Senate seat to run for the lower house seat of Brisbane , allowing Waters to return as a Senator. While Waters was re-elected to the Senate in the 2019 election , Bartlett was unsuccessful in Brisbane, despite gaining a 3 per cent swing towards him. The 2022 election
2847-617: The Queensland Parliament a strong and intelligent Greens advocate to lead debate on the best social and economic way forward in an age of environmental and economic crisis... Now there will be a responsible voice free to challenge those old Labor and National-Liberal policies which, for example threaten the death of the Great Barrier Reef and tens of thousands of jobs dependent on it within a generation". However, Lee lost his seat to LNP candidate Scott Emerson at
2920-549: The United States. Alliances often highlight strategic differences between participating in parties and advancing the values of the Green movement. For example, Greens became allied with centre-right parties to oust the centre-left ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party of Mexico . Ralph Nader , the 2000 presidential nominee of the U.S. Greens , campaigned with ultra-conservative Pat Buchanan on joint issues such as farm policy and bans on corporate funding of election campaigns, although this "alliance" between Nader and Buchanan
2993-665: The assembly, the first time a Green party member had held such a position in any parliament or assembly in Australia. However, they retained only one seat at the 2012 election in the same territory. The Green Confederation ( Confédération Verte ) in Vanuatu won 3 out of 52 seats in the last general election in October 2012. Its most prominent member is Moana Carcasses Kalosil , who became prime minister in March 2013. Carcasses,
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3066-577: The coalition, which later lost a vote of no confidence . For the next elections in 2022, the Party of the Greens (Партия на зелените, ПнЗ, PnZ) joined the Bulgarian Rise (Български възход, БВ, BV) coalition. After a government wasn't formed another round of snap elections were called. This time PP, DB, BZNS and United Agrarians formed the PP-DB coalition which won 2nd place, but managed to agree on
3139-420: The development of a separate ecological party). Their supporters sometimes blame the economical system for the environmental issues neglecting any green free-market liberal capitalist alternatives. Depending on local conditions or issues, platforms and alliances may vary. In line with the goal of democracy, neighboring ecoregions may require different policies or protections. Green parties are often formed in
3212-445: The dissolution of the 41st Parliament on August 2, 2015, the Green Party of Canada held two seats in the House of Commons, the second seat belonging to formerly Independent MP Bruce Hyer who was elected to the House of Commons as a member of the NDP in 2011. Only May won re-election to the 42nd parliament . Mike Morrice was elected to the 43rd parliament, returning Greens to two seats. There remains no federal representation by
3285-433: The environmental issue. The former two factors are believed to generate cohorts of voters with enough material security to devote their attention to 'higher' goals such as environmentalism; the latter two help raise the profile of the Green's own policy positions and statements (providing that the major parties do not act so quickly to the rising salience of environmentalism as to usurp the issue entirely and completely preempt
3358-536: The following month's general election , but won two in the 2016 general election , and twelve seats in the 2020 general election , and entered government again in June 2020. In the Czech Republic , the Green Party was part of the governing coalition, together with the conservative Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and the Christian Democrats (KDU–ČSL) from January 2007 until the government collapsed in March 2009. Green parties often have to join coalitions/alliances with other parties within parliament as they rarely get
3431-530: The fourth largest party in the European Parliament. While on many issues European Greens practice the same policies, one issue divides European Green parties: the European Union. Some Green parties, like the Dutch GreenLeft , the Green Party of England and Wales , the Swiss Green Party , the Irish Green Party and the German Alliance '90/The Greens , are pro-European while some, like the Green party in Sweden , are moderately eurosceptic . Some Green parties have been part of governing coalitions. The first one
3504-410: The government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in the 2001 Afghan War . This put them at odds with many Greens worldwide. In Finland , in 1995, the Finnish Green Party was the first European Green party to be part of a national Cabinet. Other Green parties that have participated in government at national level include the Groen! (formerly Agalev) and Ecolo in Belgium , The Greens in France and
3577-434: The largest political party in the Zagreb Assembly , winning 23 seats in total. Their mayoral candidate Tomislav Tomašević won a landslide victory on 31 May. In 2021, after anti-government protests in Bulgaria, Volt Bulgaria became a member of the Stand Up! Mafia Out! alliance. Green Movement (ZD) also became a member of an anti-corruption coalition - Democratic Bulgaria (DB) . Eco Voice (Ecoglasnost/Екогласност) remained
3650-459: The leadership by a ballot of all party members when the party has three or more members elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly . The Queensland Young Greens are the youth wing of the Queensland Greens and is open to all members under the age of 31 across the state of Queensland. The Young Greens' main focus is on election campaigning, skills training, policy development, and hosting a number of different social events. The youth wing maintains
3723-422: The name 'Green' derived from the 'Green Bans' : an Australian movement of building workers who refused to build on sites of cultural and environmental significance. The first green party in Europe was the Popular Movement for the Environment, founded in 1972 in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel . The first national green party in Europe was PEOPLE , founded in Britain in February 1973, which eventually turned into
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#17327987210043796-435: The national Green parties, they formed a pan-European alliance that unites most European Green parties. The Greens are a party within the European parliament with 46 seats, as of June 2009. It has a long-standing alliance with the European Free Alliance (EFA), an alliance of "stateless nations", such as the Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru and Scottish National Party . Together European Green Party/EFA have 58 seats and they are
3869-413: The post ' electoral rules, Green parties face barriers to gaining federal or provincial/regional/state seats. The Australian Labor Party 's practice of allocating a portion of ALP ticket votes to Australian Greens has helped bring AG candidates into parliament. In the 2008 ACT election in Australia, the Greens won 15.6% of the vote, winning 4 out of 17 seats. Shane Rattenbury was elected the speaker of
3942-439: The presented electoral or political districts. But that does not apply universally: The Green Party of Alaska is organized along bioregional lines to practice bioregional democracy . Academic research has uncovered striking international consistency in the typical demographic and attitudinal profile of Green party supporters. In particular, Green voters tend to be young, highly educated, disproportionately female, and employed in
4015-399: The previous nine, and five local parliaments members. In 2022 Portugal , the Green Party People-Animals-Nature also has only one Parliament member, having dropped from the previous four, and another in the Madeira Regional Parliament, while its two other Green parties, Partido da Terra and Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" , only have, respectively, two councilpeople and one mayor. Around
4088-583: The process of formation and have therefore not gained enough support. In Poland the Green Party, registered in 2004, won their first three seats in the Sejm in 2019. The Green Party of Bulgaria is a part of the left-wing Coalition for Bulgaria , currently in opposition. It has no parliamentary representation but it did supply one Deputy Minister in the government of Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev from 2005 to 2009. The European Green Party has worked to support weak Green parties in European countries. Until recently, they were giving support to Green parties in
4161-586: The purpose of forming a government. Some Greens, such as those in Hawaii , find more effective alliances with more conservative groups (Blue-Green alliance) or indigenous peoples – who seek to prevent disruption of traditional ways of life or to save ecological resources they depend on. Although Greens find much to support in fostering these types of alliances with groups of historically different backgrounds, they also feel strongly about forming diverse communities through encouragement of diversity in social and economic demographics in communities, especially in
4234-408: The ruling coalition. In Scandinavia, left-wing socialist parties have formed the Nordic Green Left Alliance . These parties have the same ideals as European Greens. However, they do not cooperate with the Global Greens or European Greens, but instead form a combined parliamentary group with the Party of the European Left , which unites communists and post-communists. There is one exception, in 2004
4307-541: The seat of Melbourne from the Australian Labor Party in 2010 with candidate Adam Bandt . This was the first time the Greens have won a Lower House seat at a general election (although they have previously won two seats at by-elections). Proportional representation in the Australian Senate and in New Zealand has strengthened the position of the Australian Greens and the Green Party of New Zealand and enabled them to participate directly in legislatures and policy-making committees. In countries following British-style ' first past
4380-491: The social and cultural services (healthcare, teaching, the arts, etc.), whilst also displaying above-average levels of environmentalism and social liberalism, as well as being left-leaning. Additionally, Green parties also tend to attract greater levels of support in countries defined by high levels of economic development and low levels of unemployment, as well as the presence of tangible environmental disputes (such as nuclear power production) and active major party competition on
4453-437: The state "Greensland" in their coverage of the results. The Queensland Greens have received steadily increasing support in state elections, increasing their vote from 2.5 per cent at the 2001 election to 9 per cent in the 2020 election . The party gained its first state parliamentary representative in 2008 when the Member for Indooroopilly , Ronan Lee , defected to the Greens from the Labor Party . Lee ascribed his move to
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#17327987210044526-428: The world, individuals have formed many Green parties over the last thirty years. Green parties now exist in most countries with democratic systems, from Canada to Peru , from Norway to South Africa , from Ireland to Mongolia . There is Green representation at national, regional and local levels in many countries around the world. Most of the Green parties are formed to win elections, and so organize themselves by
4599-644: The world, many of which are members of Global Greens . There are distinctions between "green" parties and "Green" parties. Any party, faction , or politician may be labeled "green" if it emphasizes environmental causes. In contrast, formally organized Green parties may follow an ideology that includes not only environmentalism , but often also other concerns such as social justice and consensus decision-making . The Global Greens Charter lists six guiding principles which are ecological wisdom, social justice, participatory democracy, nonviolence, sustainability and respect for diversity. Political parties campaigning on
4672-429: Was a long-term supporter of the social-democratic minority government until the election 2006 when the social-democratic party lost. The Irish Green Party is currently in government , having entered a coalition with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in June 2020, with three cabinet positions. It was previously in a coalition government with Fianna Fáil from 2007 until January 2011 when the party withdrew their support for
4745-462: Was a major success for the Queensland Greens, as they went from having no federal lower house representatives to three, with Max Chandler-Mather winning in Griffith , Elizabeth Watson-Brown in Ryan , and Stephen Bates in Brisbane . In addition, Waters was joined by a second Queensland Greens Senator, Penny Allman-Payne . This string of victories was dubbed a "Greenslide" by federal party leader Adam Bandt , while some media commentators nicknamed
4818-410: Was appointed Minister for Ecology in 2012. Green parties have achieved national or state parliamentary representation in New Zealand , Australia and Vanuatu . In New Zealand the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand currently holds 15 seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives after the 2023 general election . The Australian Greens hold 11 seats in the Australian Senate and 4 seats in
4891-422: Was elected to represent The Gabba Ward in Brisbane City Council at the March 2016 local government elections. He achieved a primary vote of 31.72%, a positive swing of approximately 13.8%. Sriranganathan finished in second place behind LNP candidate Sean Jacobs, but was able to win on mostly Labor preferences. Sriranganathan is the first Greens candidate to win a seat in local government anywhere in Queensland. At
4964-412: Was founded in 1996. It is a small party which have often associated with Democratic Progressive Party , a major political party in Taiwan. The first green parties in Europe were founded in the late 1970s, following the rise of environmental awareness and the development of new social movements . Green parties in Belgium first made a breakthrough. Belgium had Green members of parliament elected first in
5037-547: Was founded in 2008 as a secular party. Its first president was Philippe Skaff, CEO of Grey Advertising. The party debuted with the May 2010 municipal elections. In 2011, the party became the first political party in Lebanon to elect a female leader when Nada Zaarour was elected its president. The Green Party of Pakistan was founded in 2002, and the Green Party of Saudi Arabia emerged 2010. However, due to political repression, some South and Southwest Asian Green parties are underground organizations. The Green Party Taiwan
5110-557: Was perhaps the most prominent and successful member of a Green party in Africa: after founding the Green Belt Movement and the Mazingira Green Party of Kenya , she was elected to the Kenyan Parliament in 2002, became an assistant minister for Environmental and Natural Resources, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. Other African Green parties that have achieved parliamentary representation include Les Verts Fraternels of Mauritius , and Frank Habineza 's Democratic Green Party of Rwanda . In Senegal , Green party leader Haïdar el Ali
5183-521: Was the German Green Party , famous for their opposition to nuclear power , as well as an expression of anti-centralist and pacifist values traditional to greens. They were founded in 1980 and have been in coalition governments at state level for some years. They were in federal government with the Social Democratic Party of Germany in a so-called Red-Green alliance from 1998 to 2005. In 2001, they reached an agreement to end reliance on nuclear power in Germany, and agreed to remain in coalition and support
5256-901: Was the Finnish Green League that entered government in 1995. The Italian Federation of the Greens , the French Greens , the German Alliance '90/The Greens and both Belgian Green parties, the French-speaking Ecolo and the Dutch-speaking Agalev were part of government during the late 1990s. Most successful was the Latvian Green Party , who supplied the Prime Minister of Latvia in 2004. The Swedish Green Party
5329-495: Was very specifically limited to the purpose of showing that there was broad support for certain specific issues, across the political spectrum. U.S. Greens grew dramatically throughout 2001. However, stable coalitions (such as that in Germany) tend to be formed between elections with left-wing parties on social issues, and 'the grassroots right' on such issues as irresponsible corporate subsidies and public ethics. On 13 June 2007,
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