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4 unusual facts about The Greens


Alfred Mechtersheimer

Consequently, Mechtersheimer's political career has seen him move from Bavarian CSU to the Greens in the 1980s.

Joachim Schmillen

From 1991 to 1994 he used to work as scientific foreign and security policy coordinator of the Alliance '90/The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

A Just Russia
(including former Rodina or Motherland-National Patriotic Union
Russian Party of Life
People's Party of the Russian Federation
and Russian Ecological Party "The Greens")

Untergruppenbach

Amongst the groups represented in the local politics one can find the CDU (Christian Democratic Union), the SPD (German Socialist Party), the Green Party, and the UWG (Independent Voter Community).


Cornelia Behm

Cornelia Behm (born 20 September 1951 in Kleinmachnow, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg) is a German politician and member of Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag.

Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens

Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens, formerly known as Eckhard Stratmann, (born April 3, 1948 in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former politician and Green Party member of the German Bundestag.

Eleventh constituency for French residents overseas

Europe Écologie–The Greens has chosen Janick Magne, a long-term resident of Tokyo.

Federation of the Greens

In Bonelli's view the new political force would have taken inspiration both from the French Verts and the German Grünen and would have be open to the contribution of movements and associations, notably including Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement.

Gabriele Heinen-Kljajic

Gabriele Heinen-Kljajic (born 28 May 1962 in Gemünd) is a German politician for the Alliance '90/The Greens.

Green National Convention

1 The 1996 meeting was not an official meeting of The Greens/Green Party USA, which had officially voted to nominate no candidate in Albuquerque in 1995.

Hanfparade

About 5,000 demonstrators, including Hans-Christian Ströbele (a Green Party member of the German Bundestag), representatives of the Green Party Youths, The Left Party and the Grey Panthers Party, participated in the demonstration.

Insubria

It was led by Werner Nussbaumer, a physician from Gravesano, former member of the Greens and known for his actions aimed at promoting Cannabis indica for therapeutical purposes.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Austria

The Greens, the Social Democrats (SPÖ), and the NEOS support same-sex marriage.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Germany

It was drafted by Volker Beck from The Greens and was approved under the Green/Social Democratic coalition government.

Red-green alliance

The MEPs of the NGLA sit in the European United Left–Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) grouping in the European Parliament, although the MEPs of the Socialist People's Party sit in The Greens–European Free Alliance (G/EFA) group.

Rüdiger Sagel

Rüdiger Sagel (born 9 August 1955 in Lünen) is a German politician currently with the Left Party and previously with the Alliance '90/The Greens. From 1998 until 2012 he was a member of the state parliament (Landtag) for North Rhine-Westphalia.

Simone Peter

Simone Peter (born 3 December 1965 in Quierschied) is a German Green Party politician. Since October 2013, she has been co-chairman of the German political party Alliance '90/The Greens, together with Cem Özdemir.

Torsten Albig

SPD and CDU achieved 22 seats each, and the election result made it possible for Albig to form a coalition government with the participation of the Green Party and the SSW, which is a regional party representing the Danish and Frisian minorities.

Traffic light coalition

Following the 2013 general election in Luxembourg, negotiations started with the aim of forming a three-party coalition government comprising the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), the Democratic Party (DP) and The Greens in order to oust the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) of the incumbent Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker.

Ursula Helmhold

Ursula Helmhold (born 26 April 1966 in Recklinghausen) is a German politician for the Alliance '90/The Greens.

Vera Lengsfeld

At this time she joined Alliance 90, the Green Party of the GDR, and at the 1990 election was elected to the member of the GDR parliament until its dissolution on 2 October 1990 as a member of Alliance '90/The Greens, the coalition between Alliance 90 and The Greens.

West German presidential election, 1984

The Greens, who were represented at the Federal Convention for the first time, nominated author Luise Rinser.


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1996 Parliament House Riot

Senator Dee Margetts, speaking for the Greens Western Australia said that "the Greens WA do not associate ourselves with the violent action" but that "there are obviously some in the Greens movement who have differing opinions about that".

Bradfield by-election, 2009

Although fairly safe on paper, some commentators including Malcolm Mackerras tipped the Greens to win in Higgins, and force the Liberals to preferences in Bradfield.

David Risstrom

The Greens polled more than 260,000 primary votes across Victoria and Risstrom would have been elected but for the Australian Labor Party's decision to preference the Family First Party's candidate Steve Fielding - who subsequently defeated Risstrom on preferences despite polling fewer primary votes.

Federation of the Greens

The Greens are stronger in cities and urban areas (Milan, Venice, Rome, Naples, etc.), in mountain regions, such as Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Aosta Valley, and in some Southern regions, such as Basilicata and Campania.

French presidential election, 1988

Meanwhile, the Ecologist Antoine Waechter refused to ally the Greens with either the left or the right.

Gergely Rudolf

Gergely Rudolf signed a one-year loan contract with Panathinaikos to become the fifth signing for the Greens this summer on the very last day of the transfer window on 31 August 2011.

Green League

In the municipal election of 2008 the Greens had 8.9% of the vote; the vote share was considerably higher in Helsinki (the capital), where the Greens became were the second largest party with 23.2% of the vote.

Heinen

Gabriele Heinen-Kljajic (born 1962), German politician for the Alliance '90/The Greens

Hesse state election, 2009

The candidates for the office of minister-president in 2009 were the incumbent Roland Koch of the CDU; the new Hesse SPD party leader, Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel; Tarek Al-Wazir for the Greens; Jörg-Uwe Hahn for the FDP; and Willi van Ooyen for the Linke.

Higgins by-election, 2009

Although fairly safe on paper, some commentators including Malcolm Mackerras tipped the Greens to defeat the Liberals in Higgins, and force the Liberals to preferences in Bradfield.

Hofreiter

Anton Hofreiter (born 1970), German biologist and politician (Alliance 90/The Greens)

Katrin Göring-Eckardt

In the primary election for the Greens' top candidates for the 2013 federal election on 11 November 2012, she was the second-place winner with 47.3%, beating Claudia Roth and Renate Künast; this made her and Jürgen Trittin, who won the most votes, the factions' top two candidates for the following year's election.

Max Simeoni

Like Djida Tazdaït, the other non-Green MEP elected on the list, he refused to abide to the Greens tourniquet rule by which every elected official had to resign at mid-term to prevent the political professionalization.

Melbourne state by-election, 2012

How-to-vote cards (HTVs) had six candidates recommending voters to preference Labor over the Greens: Ahmed, Family First, Nolte, the DLP, the Sex Party, and the Christians.

Oak Hill Country Club

Local physician and civic personality John Ralston Williams cultivated oak trees and planted tens of thousands of them among the greens on what once was a farmed-out field.

Organic certification

In Germany the national label was introduced in September 2001 following in the footsteps of the political campaign of "Agrarwende" (agricultural major shift) led by minister Renate Künast of the Greens party.

Paul Gogarty

In an interview with TheJournal.ie, Gogarty was reported to have claimed that he was considering changing parties to Fianna Fáil saying that "I haven’t finished with the Greens. I am very much green to the core, but in terms of getting political objectives achieved, I have not made up my mind with whether I will go back into politics, whether the Green Party has a chance to recover or whether we need a strong green element in some other organisation".

Port of Hastings Development Authority

The Ports Integration Bill was strongly opposed in the Victorian Parliament by the Liberal and National parties, predominantly on competition grounds, and by the Greens for environmental reasons.

Red-green alliance

Left Ecology Freedom: initially a successor of sorts in Italy to The Left - The Rainbow, also comprising the Federation and the Greens and Democratic Left, along with former-communist Movement for the Left and Unite the Left, and the Italian Socialist Party, a centrist social-democratic party.

Tullamarine, Victoria

Also on Section 3 was the Junction Hotel (which later became The Greens Corner store run by Cec and Lily Green.) A 7-Eleven now stands on this site.

Vettweiß

14 seats in the local parliament are held by the CDU (Christian Democratic Union), 7 are held by the BI (local citizens' initiative), 4 by the SPD (Social Democrats) and one each by the FDP (Free Liberals) and the Greens.