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The Brazilian Green Party was constituted after the military dictatorship period and, like other Green Parties around the world, is committed to establishing a set of policies on ensuring social-equity and sustainable development. One of the party's founding members was the journalist and former anti-dictatorship revolutionary Fernando Gabeira ...
The world's first green parties were founded in 1972. These were in the Australian state of Tasmania (the United Tasmania Group) and in New Zealand (the Values Party).Others followed quickly: in 1973, PEOPLE (later the Ecology Party) was set up in the UK, and in other European countries Green and radical parties sprang up in the following years.
This is a list of parties in the world that consider themselves to be upholding the principles and values of green politics.Some are also members of the Global Greens, [1] the European Green Party, the Nordic Green Left Alliance or other international organizations.
In Latvia, Indulis Emsis, leader of the Green Party and part of the Union of Greens and Farmers, an alliance of a Nordic agrarian party and the Green Party, was Prime Minister of Latvia for ten months in 2004, making him the first Green politician to lead a country in the history of the world. In 2015, Emsis' party colleague, Raimonds Vējonis ...
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)
Though none of America's third parties have won a presidential election, they have nonetheless had a large impact on the country's politics
The Green Party's membership encompasses the fourth-highest percentage of registered voters in the United States, with a total membership of 234,120. [58] The Green Party has its strongest popular support on the Pacific Coast, Upper Great Lakes, and Northeast, as reflected in the geographical distribution of Green candidates elected. [59]
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