Green Liberal Party of Switzerland
The Green Liberal Party of Switzerland ( glp; French Parti vert'libéral, pvl; Italian Partito Verde liberals, pvl; Romansh: Partida Verda Liberala, pvl ) is a political party in Switzerland. Currently, there are 18 cantonal parties. The party has been represented since the Swiss Parliament elections in 2011 with twelve seats in the National Assembly and two seats in the Senate.
History
Green Liberal Party Canton of Zurich
The Green Liberal Party Canton Zurich was founded in 2004 as a splinter group from the Greens Canton of Zurich, as Balthasar Glättli was elected in place of Martin Bäumle president of Zurich's Green Party. Within a year, occurred in nearly 300 members of the new party.
The Green Liberals were initially represented by Martin Bäumle in the National Council and until May 2007 with Verena Diener in Zurich Cantonal Government. Two were not originally selected as members of the Green Liberal Party, but are converted by the Greens.
Beginning of 2006, the Green Liberals first emerged in some communities with their own lists for the elections. In the cities of Winterthur, Uster and Opfikon the Green Liberals were able to move with two seats in the municipal council, in the city of Zurich, they failed, however, at the 5- percent threshold ( the rule that a party in at least one constituency at least 5 % of the votes must be given ).
At the cantonal elections on 15 April 2007, the glp was able to achieve an electoral success and brought straight away ten seats (out of 180). As a result, the creation of a green liberal party has been emulated in other cantons.
Even after the establishment of the National Party, the Green Liberals in the canton of Zurich were able to record election victories. In the local elections on March 7, 2010, they were able to move into the Zurich City Council and were considerably strengthened in the other municipality parliaments. In the Zurich Cantonal elections on April 3, 2011, they reached 10.3% share of the vote and 19 seats ( 9).
National Party
The Green Liberals of the cantons of Zurich and St. Gallen have formally established a national party on July 20, 2007. The two cantonal sections have participated in the Swiss Parliament elections in 2007. In the national elections the glp won 1.4% of the vote and three seats in the National Council of the Canton of Zurich. The former Zurich Government Verena Diener was also selected in the second round of voting in the Council of States.
For the 48th legislative period, the glp joined together in a common fraction with CVP and EVP of the National Council.
After the founding of the national party sections were established in the following two years in most German -speaking cantons; Finally, in 2010 in the French-speaking cantons of Geneva and Vaud. The Green Liberals occurred between 2007 and 2008 to at various cantonal elections in German Switzerland and were able to gain between one and six seats in the cantonal parliaments respectively. More Canton parliamentarians won the glp through transfers from other parties.
After the previously non-party Urner Government Markus Stadler was elected to the Senate on 20 May 2010, he decided to join the glp that in Uri has no cantonal section. The glp thus has two Councillors.
From the Swiss parliamentary elections of 2011, the Green Liberal Party emerged strengthened. She reached for the national elections 5.4% of the vote and 12 seats, so they also gained nine seats. For the first time their own Green Liberal Group of the Federal Assembly are formed. The two Councillors were re-elected.
Policy status
The Green Liberals see themselves as the party of the political center and thus are not left as the Green Party of Switzerland. You want to combine a liberal economic and social policies consistent with sustainable environmental policy. Differences to the Green Party are, in particular in economic and financial policy issues.
Organization
President of the party at the national level is Martin Bäumle.