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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 the Ecology Party and then the Green Party. Several other local political groups were founded in ...
The European Green Party itself was officially founded at the 4th Congress of the European Federation of Green Parties on 20–22 February 2004 in Rome. [19] At the convention, 32 Green parties from across Europe joined this new pan-European party.
The German Green Party was 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: The German Greens, contended in their first national election in the 1980 federal election. They started as a provisional coalition of civic groups ...
The world's first political parties to campaign on a predominantly environmental platform were the United Tasmania Group of Tasmania, Australia, and the Values Party of New Zealand. [43] [44] The first green party in Europe was the Popular Movement for the Environment, founded in 1972 in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel.
Ralph Nader (USA; US Green Party's Presidential Candidate 1996 and 2000 as well as independent Presidential Candidate in 2004 and 2008) Jonathon Porritt (United Kingdom; environmentalist and advocate of the Green Party of England and Wales) Åsa Romson (Sweden; Swedish Minister for the Environment and Deputy Prime Minister since 2014)
Vera Dua got elected as chairperson, and on the same day, the party's name was changed to Groen! (Green!). [15] The party got between 5 and 10% of the votes through the elections of the early 00's. They did not participate in a governmental coalition (on any level higher than local).
The Green Party's origins go back to PEOPLE, a political party founded in Coventry in November 1972. [3] [4] An interview with overpopulation expert Paul R. Ehrlich in Playboy magazine inspired [3] a small group of professional and business people to form the 'Thirteen Club', so named because it first met on 13 September 1972 at the Napton Bridge pub in Napton-on-the-Hill near Daventry. [5]
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