Green Party (Ireland)

The Green Party (official name: Green Party / Comhaontas glass) was as Ecology Party of Ireland ( Ecological Party of Ireland ) founded in 1981 by Dublin teacher Christopher Fettes, renamed in 1983 in Green Alliance and in 1987 received its current name.

History

For the first time the party came with the choice in 1982, but reached only 0.2 % of the vote. After the name change in 1983, the party took with Christopher Fettes part in the 1984 European elections, reaching 1.9% in the Dublin constituency. The following year the party won its first election when Marcus Counihan was elected in elections at the local level in Killarney in the council - in relation to the entire Republic submitted the party candidates at 34 and came to 0.6% of the vote. Only with the election in 1989 ( and re- renaming ) the party won its first seat in the House, as Roger Garland was elected in the constituency of Dublin South.

But only in the election of 2002, the party was able to record a new step forward when it reached 3.6% of the vote and was able to triple its number of seats from 2 to 6. But only two years later was the next political setback when the Green Party lost both seats in the European Parliament. At the local level, you could not keep the results; 2004, they won only 18 of 878 seats - even if the party had doubled their number of seats so. For the first time you take outside of Dublin foot; J. J. Power was elected to Naas and Niall Ó Brolcháin in Galway.

The Northern Ireland Green Party is part of the party. About this, the Green Party is also represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Although the Green Party is a member of the European Green Party, she represents a somewhat skeptical attitude towards the European policy as it is the case with the other Green parties.

At the party meeting in 2005, the delegates voted by a large majority against a pre-election pact with one of the opposition parties, Fine Gael and the Labour Party.

In the 2007 election the party increased its share of national Erstpräferenzstimmen of 3.84 % to 4.69 %. Nevertheless, the number of its deputies remained at six. Dan Boyle lost his seat lost in Cork South Central and Mary White won a seat in Carlow Kilkenny. It was thus the first female MPs in this constituency.

In July 2007, the Congress approved the Green Party government participation with the civil party Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats. Then the leader of the Green Party Trevor Sargent resigned from his post. Patricia McKenna and John Gormley run after the resignation of Sargent as party chairman. New Party Chairman, John Gormley. Well-known politicians of the Green Party and Eamon Ryan, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources was heard and was elected to succeed Gormley as party leader in May 2011.

In January 2011, the Green Party from the government withdrew and joined the opposition. In the early parliamentary elections on 21 February 2011, the party lost all its seats, dropping from 4.6% to 1.8 % of the Erstpräferenzen Erstpräferenzen.

Youth wing

The Green Party also has a youth wing, known as the Young Greens, with several hundred members in branches across the country. Founded in 2002, the young Greens stand for the protection of the environment, human rights and improved educational opportunities.