Green Party (Brazil)

The Partido Verde ( Green Party, PV) is a Brazilian political party that was founded in January 1986 under the influence of European left alternative models.

The most important was a founding member of the former Revolutionary and opponents of the military regime Fernando Gabeira.

In the congressional elections on 3 October 2006, the party with 3.36856 million valid votes received a vote share of 3.6%. It is represented in the parliaments of a number of states with 13 MPs in the Federal Parliament, and beyond.

Marina Silva, former Minister of the Environment of the Lula government, entered as a candidate of the Green Party in the presidential elections on 3 October 2010 and reached almost 20% of the vote.

Ideology

The main program points of the party are a market economy, which is regulated by the State with the objective of sustainable development, and reduce social inequality. It represents the principles of pacifism, federalism, parliamentarism and direct democracy. At international level, she is a member of the Global Greens.

After their self-understanding, the party can not place on the left-right scheme, and it goes alliances with different partners. At the federal level, the party supported officially from 2003 to 2005, the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Although such assistance has been canceled due to disagreements over environmental policy; last Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and musician was still present as a member of the party in government, but declared his resignation in July 2008.