"a registered party or the word ""Independent"". Independent Ecology Independent Ecology is a description once used in British politics to denote a form of non-party affiliation. It was used to designate a green politician as was independent of any political party, particularly of the Ecology Party before its transformation into the Green Party. Since the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998 came into force, a candidate for election can no longer be described as an ""Independent Ecology"" on a ballot paper, as the 1998 Act prohibits any description which could cause confusion with a registered political party. In practice, the"
"ECOPEACE Party The ECOPEACE Party is a national environmentalist political party in South Africa founded in 1995. The party was formerly known as eThekwini ECOPEACE and eThekwini Ecoparty—eThekwini is the Zulu name for Durban, where the party is based. The Zulu party motto is ""Buhlakuleni uButhi, Yitshaleni iMithi"", which translates to ""Uproot Poisons, Replant Trees (or Medicine)"". ECOPEACE entered municipal elections in 1996 but failed to win any seat. In 2000 it won one seat in the eThekwini Municipal Council; this was the only Green seat in South Africa. ECOPEACE was not re-elected in the 2006 local elections, but its"
"1980, the action of the Ecology Party CND (later Green CND), and the Greenham Common camp. The party also became increasingly feminist. Due to the recession causing the marginalisation of Green issues, Roy Jenkins leaving the Labour Party to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and the inability of the party to absorb the rapid increase in membership, the early 1980s were extremely tough for the Ecology Party. Nonetheless, the party prepared for the 1983 General Election, spurred on by the success of Die Grünen in Germany. In the 1983 election, the Ecology Party stood over 100 candidates and gained"
"regional branch of the party the previous year. It currently has two representatives in the Assembly. The party's first electoral outing was at the November 1982 general election when seven candidates contested under the ""Ecology Party"" banner, winning 0.2% of the vote. Following a name change, it contested the 1984 European elections, with party founder Roger Garland winning 1.9% in the Dublin constituency. The following year, it won its first election when Marcus Counihan was elected to Killarney Urban District Council at the 1985 local elections. The party nationally ran 34 candidates and won 0.6% of the vote. The party"
"its name to 'The Ecology Party' in order to gain more recognition as the party of environmental concern. Party co-founder Tony Whittaker noted in an interview with Derek Wall ""… voters did not connect PEOPLE with ecology. What I wanted was something that the media could look up in their files so that, when they wanted a spokesman of the issue of ecology, they could find the Ecology Party and pick up the phone. It was as brutal and basic as that. PEOPLE didn’t communicate what we had hoped it would communicate"". The party won its first representation in 1976,"
"Ecological Democratic Party The Ecological Democratic Party (, ÖDP) is a conservative and ecologist political party in Germany. The ÖDP was founded in 1982 as a federal party and is the legal successor of the Green Action Future (""Grünen Aktion Zukunft""), the Green List for Environmental Protection (""Grüne Liste Umweltschutz"") and the Ecological Politics Working Group (""Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ökologische Politik""). The strongest level of voting support for the ÖDP is in Bavaria, where in federal state elections they have remained stable with 2% of the votes since 1990, and at municipal level have increased their mandate count in 2014 from 320"
"precisely, ""Alternative Liste für Demokratie und Umweltschutz"" (AL; alternative list for democracy and environmental protection) in 1978 and became the official West Berlin branch of The Greens in 1980. In 1993 it renamed to Alliance 90/The Greens Berlin after the merger with East Berlin's Greens and Alliance 90. The Hamburg state branch of the Green Party was called ""Grün-Alternative Liste Hamburg"" (GAL; green-alternative list) from its foundation in 1982 until 2012. In 1984 it became the official Hamburg branch of The Greens. In the 1970s, environmentalists and peace activists politically organised amongst thousands of action groups. The political party The"
"also became increasingly feminist. Due to the recession causing the marginalisation of Green issues, Roy Jenkins leaving the Labour Party to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and the inability of the Party to absorb the rapid increase in membership, the early 1980s were extremely tough for the Ecology Party. Nonetheless, the Party prepared for the 1983 General Election, spurred on by the success of Die Grünen in Germany. In the 1983 General Election, the Ecology Party stood over 100 candidates and gained 54,299 votes. Ecology Party The Ecology Party was a political party in the United Kingdom. It succeeded"
"party leader from December 2015 until her resignation in March 2017 was Alice Hooker-Stroud; the current Leader is Grenville Ham, and the current Deputy Leaders are Benjamin Smith and Pippa Bartolotti. Wales is represented internally within the GPEW by Chris Simpson and Chris Carmichael on the Green Party Regional Council (GPRC). Both sets of positions are directly elected by postal ballot. The Green Parties in the United Kingdom have their roots in the PEOPLE movement which was founded in 1972. This became the Ecology Party three years later, and then the Green Party in 1985. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland"
"name. The party planned to submit a request to change the name as soon as registration was accepted by Elections Alberta. On January 7, 1985 Elections Alberta accepted the petition after it collected the signatures of over 4500 Alberta electors. In 1985 the Social Credit Party, the Western Canada Concept and Heritage Party of Alberta began a merger movement that resulted in the Alberta Alliance Political Association. The merger was short-lived and broke apart, collapsing the parties involved. Many candidates and supporters moved to support the Representative Party which became the primary right-wing alternative party for that election. In the"
"in Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) winning one, and the UMP winning only three. Two of the winning Socialist candidates were later disqualified by the Constitutional Council due to campaign finance irregularities. They were replaced in by-elections by a candidate from the UMP and a candidate from the center-right Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), leaving the overseas constituencies with five MPs from the Socialist Party, four from UMP (which in 2015 changed its name to The Republicans), one from EELV, and one from UDI. In the 2017 election, Emmanuel Macron's party La République En Marche! (REM) won a"
"October 2018, after the Wales Green Party had voted not to become independent from England. Anthony Slaughter became deputy leader in 2014. Alice Hooker-Stroud and Hannah Pudner were elected as the leader and deputy leader in late 2015. The Wales Green party is represented internally within the GPEW by Louise Davies and Kathryn Driscoll. on the Green Party Regional Council (GPRC). The Green Parties in the United Kingdom have their roots in the PEOPLE Party which was founded in 1973. This became the Ecology Party three years later, and then the Green Party in 1985. In 1990, the Scottish and"
"1974 General Election. They received a total of 4,576. The party lost all of its deposits by failing to win 12.5% of the votes cast, namely a total of £900 (). Lesley Whittaker and Edward Goldsmith were two of the six who stood in the election. Membership rose and the party stood five candidates in the October General Election which cost the party £750. This affected preparations for that election, when PEOPLE's average vote fell to just 0.7%. After much debate, the party's 1975 conference adopted a proposal to change its name to the Ecology Party to gain more recognition"
"political movement. In October and November 2010, EE and later The Greens ratified new statutes and a new manifesto. Notably, these new statutes allowed for ""cooperators"" - individuals who did not join the party as full paying members but who are nonetheless allowed to run as candidates, vote in presidential primaries and partake in debates over the platform. The official launch of the new party, presented as a new political force, was held in Lyon on 9 November 2010. The new party adopted the name Europe Ecology – The Greens (""Europe Écologie Les Verts"", EELV). However, the launch of the"
"Ireland and gained 202, 81 and 61 votes respectively; the first in a large urban area, the other two in smaller rural constituencies. Emerson had previously stood in the same area in 1977. In May 1983, the Northern Ireland Ecology Party was launched at a press conference held in the Europa Hotel, Belfast, with members of the British and Irish Ecology parties in attendance. At the same time, the three parties put forward one combined policy on Northern Ireland, the first time that UK and Irish political parties had held a common Northern Ireland policy. In 1985, ecology parties throughout"
"record 16.28% of the vote in the 2009 European elections, the coalition maintained itself to participate in the 2010 regional elections. In November 2010, the alliance was transformed into a political party under the name Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV). Europe Écologie was made up of the following parties and personalities: Europe Écologie received 16.28% of the vote nationally, or 2,803,759 votes. It placed only 0.2% behind the Socialist Party (PS) nationally, and ahead of the PS in key regions such as Île-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Rhône-Alpes. This is the highest result won by any green movement, party or"
"as part of the Independent Ecological Movement which won 3.63% of the vote. On 2 May 2018 former minister of Ecology Delphine Batho left the Socialist Party as joined Ecology Generation. She was elected as new party president on 10 September 2018. Ecology Generation Ecology Generation () is, together with the Greens (), the Independent Ecological Movement () and Citizenship, Action, Participation for the 21st Century (""CAP21""), one of the four ""green"" parties in France. Founded in 1990 by Brice Lalonde, Environment Minister, upon the suggestion of President François Mitterrand, it describes itself as a club with cross-party alliances of"
"(2 MPs) decline greatly, the 2013 election consolidated the power of the two main parties at the expense of the smaller groups, and saw the eco-socialist Inuit Party elected to the Parliament for the first time. The dominance of the Forward and Inuit Community parties began to wane after the snap 2014 elections, and 2018 elections. The non-binding 2008 referendum on self-governance favoured increased self-governance 21,355 votes to 6,663. In 1985, Greenland left the European Economic Community (EEC), unlike Denmark, which remains a member. The EEC later became the European Union (EU, renamed and expanded in scope in 1992). Greenland"
"People Green Party (GPGP) in 1999, and the party has contested elections as the Green Party of South Africa since the 2000 local elections. Green Party of South Africa The Green Party of South Africa (GPSA) is a small political party in the Western Cape province. It has similar policies to Green parties around the world, and is a member of the Federation of Green Parties of Africa. The Ecology Party was established in November 1989, but disbanded after recruiting only 1 800 members. Ian Brownlie launched the Green Party (GRP) in July 1992, but it too disbanded after failing"
"co-chair of the Ecology Party) spoke on the subject of Green politics and the inner city. Hackney Green Party put a formal proposal to the Ecology Party Autumn Conference in Dover that year to change to the Green Party, which was supported by the majority of attendees, including John Abineri, formerly an actor in the BBC series ""Survivors"" who supported adding ""Green"" to the name to fall in line with other environmental parties in Europe. The next year, an internal dispute arose within the party. A faction calling itself the ""Party Organisation Working Group (POWG)"" proposed constitutional amendments designed to"
"National Country Party in 1975 and the National Party in 1982. The state party had actually changed its name to the National Party in 1974 as part of its effort to broaden its reach. After more than a decade of increasingly fraught relations, the Liberals pulled out of the Coalition in 1983. The Nationals came up one seat short of a majority in their own right in the election held later that year. The Nationals then persuaded two Liberals to defect to them, and governed alone until their defeat in 1989. In 1992 the electoral system was changed to Optional"
"lead to the regime change marked by the downfall of the longtime communist ruler Todor Zhivkov on 10 November 1989, paving the way to the restoration of democracy and market economy in Bulgaria: Ecoglasnost Ecoglasnost (), also known as ""Independent Society of Ecoglasnost"" (), is an independent Bulgarian environmental organization, established on 11 April 1989 and formally registered on 11 December 1989. Ecoglasnost became a founding member of the umbrella opposition movement Union of Democratic Forces on 7 December 1989, and gave rise to the Green Party of Bulgaria on 28 December 1989, the Political Club of Ecoglasnost in March"
"party adopted its current name and a new logo. Movement of Ecologists — Citizens' Cooperation The Movement of Ecologists — Citizens' Cooperation (), formerly known as the Ecological and Environmental Movement (), is a green political party in Cyprus. In both the 2001 and 2006 legislative elections, the party won 2.0% of the popular vote and 1 of 56 seats. In 2011, it garnered 2.2% of the popular vote, and its sole parliamentarian, George Perdikes, retained his seat. The party increased its seat count from 1 to 2 following the 2016 legislative elections, where it obtained 4.8% of the vote,"
"Ecologist Party The Ecologist Party (founded as écologistes !) is a centre-left French political party created in September 2015 by François de Rugy, the president of the Ecologist group in the National Assembly and Jean-Vincent Placé, the president of the Ecologist group in the Senate. This party was initially created as a reaction to the decision taken by EELV of making alliances with the Left Front. The aim of UDE founders was to create a reformist center-left party, accepting globalization and market economy, and supporting president François Hollande. The founders of UDE declared they wanted to become a strong ally"
"Green Party (Sweden) The Green Party (, literally ""Environment Party the Greens"", commonly referred to in Swedish as ""Miljöpartiet"" or MP) is a political party in Sweden based on green politics. The party was founded in 1981, emerging out of a sense of discontent with the existing parties' environmental policies, and sparked by the anti-nuclear power movement following the 1980 nuclear power referendum. The party's breakthrough would come in the 1988 general election when they won seats in the Swedish Riksdag for the first time, capturing 5.5 percent of the vote, and becoming the first new party to enter parliament"
"(which encompasses around 124 520 words). At the same time, according to Wall, ""the Post-1968 generation"" began to join the Party, advocating non-violent direct action as an important element of the Ecology Party vision outside of electoral politics. This manifested itself in an apparent ""decentralist faction"" who gained ground within the Party, leading to Party Conference stripping the Executive of powers and rejecting the election of a single leader. The new generation was in evidence in the first 'Summer Green Gathering' in July 1980, the action of Ecology Party CND (later Green CND), and the Greenham Common camp. The Party"
"Verts as political party, environmentalists contested elections under such banners as ""Ecology 78"", ""Ecology Europe"" and ""Ecology Today"". When, in 1982, ""the Ecologist Party"" merged with ""the Ecologist Confederation"", les Verts were born. Under the ideological guidance of Antoine Waechter, the party in 1986 signalled a break with the traditional divide in French politics, declaring that environmental politics could not be ""married"" to either the left or the right (which gave rise to its famous slogan ""ni droite, ni gauche"" – ""neither right, nor left""). Antoine Waechter ran in the 1988 presidential elections, capturing 1,150,000 ballots (or 3.8%) in the"
"that many of the policies in the Ecology Party's manifesto of 1979 were now accepted by mainstream political parties, and emphasized the importance of active support. Prior to the 2015 general election, he was one of several public figures who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas. In 1984 Porritt gave up teaching to become Director of Friends of the Earth in Britain, a post he held until 1990. Although criticized initially as inexperienced, in the long term he has been seen as an important factor in the group's success in the late 1980s. He edited the"
"election manifesto called ""The Real Alternative"", the Ecology Party fielded 53 candidates in the 1979 General Election, entitling them to radio and television election broadcasts. Though many considered this a gamble, the plan, encouraged by Porritt, worked, as the party received 39,918 votes (an average of 1.5%) and membership jumped tenfold from around 500 to 5,000 or more. This, Derek Wall notes, meant that the Ecology Party ""became the fourth party in UK politics, ahead of the National Front and Socialist Unity"". Following this electoral success, the party introduced Annual Spring Conferences to accompany Autumn Conferences, and a process of"
"with the Ecologist Greens (OP) and Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow -Front of anticapitalist, revolutionary, communist and radical Left Ecology (ANTARSYA). The other left parties however all ended to decide they would not merge or form a new coalition with SYRIZA. Another important change however happened for SYRIZA on 22 May, where the steering committee decided to transform the ""Coalition of the Radical Left"", from its 10 coalition parties into a single independent party with the new name ""Syriza Unionist Social Front"". The driving force behind the transformation from coalition to a united party, was the current Greek election"
"the 1989 election, the PSP combined forces with the Communist Party of the Netherlands and the progressive Christian Political Party of Radicals and the Evangelical People's Party under the name GreenLeft. In November 1990, just before GreenLeft was formed as a separate political party, Van Es left politics in order to ""make room for new GreenLeft faces"" and because she had difficulty combining motherhood and her place in parliament. She was a consciously single mother from 1988. She was replaced as an MP by party member Leoni Sipkes. After her political career, Van Es worked for the broadcasters VPRO and"
"1994, when the party was formally merged with the Democratic Coalition. Yolande Cohen became leader of the resulting Democratic Coalition-Ecology Montreal party for the 1994 election. Before the merger, the party had attempted to form ""Alliance '94"", a political alliance with two other leftist city councillors. The merged party won two seats on council, both of whom were former members of the Democratic Coalition. These councillors used the name of the merged party until shortly before the 1998 election, when the parties dissolved their merger. Ecology Montreal does not appear to have re-surfaced as a separate organization after this time."
"hold environmentalist positions, under the theological principle of stewardship. The CVP has historically been a Roman Catholic party, whilst the EVP is a Protestant party. The third party, the Green Liberals, was formed as a centrist alternative to the left-wing Green Party, and adheres to green liberalism: environmentalism combined with socially liberal and economically centrist policies. In the political spectrum, the Group falls between the Social Democrats to the left and FDP.The Liberals and the Swiss People's Party to the right. It was led by President Urs Schwaller, who sits in the Council of States for the CVP. In 2011,"