The Greens (France)
Les Verts (The Greens) is the name of a former party in the National Assembly. Your full name was Les Verts, Confédération écologiste - Parti écologiste. She was a member of the European Green Party and the Global Greens. In 2010 she went up in the newly founded party Europe Ecologie -Les Verts.
She went in elections a list of compounds and election arrangements with other left-wing parties, in which the Socialist Party and the Communist Party of France were usually the main decision makers.
Les Verts have been especially chosen the technology centers Toulouse and Grenoble, especially in big cities.
Party History
The involvement of environmental groups in the political life in France dates back to the 1970s. Symbol character had in this regard the establishment of the agronomist René Dumont as a candidate in the presidential election, 1974 In the following years, the ecological movement to each election candidates. 1977 municipal election, 1978 elections for the national parliament ( under the name Écologie 78), 1979 for the European elections (Europe Écologie ), 1981 in the presidential election with Brice Lalonde of Aujourd'hui l' Écologie as a candidate.
The Greens emerged in 1984 from a merger of Parti écologiste ( previously Mouvement d' Écologie Politique ) and Confédération écologiste, founded in 1982. Brice Lalonde should never belong to that party. He remained its union, the Amis de la Terre, loyal, until in 1990 he founded his own party ( Génération Écologie ).
On April 24, 1988, Antoine Waechter won as a presidential candidate 3.8% of the vote. He had prevailed in 1986 as a leader within the new party and certain largely its political position outside the conventional bearing. From this line, the Greens adopted in 1994 and joined the left-wing groups to clearly. Then Antoine Waechter left the party to found the Mouvement écologiste Indépendant.
In the presidential election on April 23, 1995 Dominique Voynet united as a candidate of the Green Party 3.3% of the electorate votes.
After the victory of the left in the 1997 parliamentary elections was Dominique Voynet as Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning ( 2001 Yves Cochet replaced ) included in the government of Lionel Jospin. 2000 her followed by a second representative of the Green in the government: Guy Hascoet as Secretary of State for solidarity economy.
In March 2001, when Bertrand Delanoë was elected with the support of the Green Party mayor of Paris, he appointed Christophe Girard, Yves Contassot and Denis Baupin as deputy to important items.
In the presidential elections in the following year 5.25 % of the voters voted for the Green candidate Noël Mamère.
In January 2003, Gilles Lemaire succeeds Dominique Voynet as chairman of the party. On January 16, 2005 he was replaced Yann defense Ling, former press secretary of the party, from the office.
Since 2001 there was a associated with the party youth organization - the Green Youth ( Jeunes Verts ).
On 13 November 2010, " Les Verts " disbanded and merged on 14 November 2010 with the electoral alliance Europe Écologie the new party Europe Ecologie -Les Verts.
Representation in parliaments
- Regional: Five senators: Marie -Christine Blandin, Alima Boumedienne -Thiery, Jean Desessard, Jacques Muller and Dominique Voynet
- National 2007: 3.25%, four MPs: Martine Billard, Yves Cochet and Noël Mamère, François de Rugy
- Europe 2004: 7.41 % Six MEP Hélène Flautre, Gérard Onesta, Marie- Hélène Aubert, Marie- Anne Isler Beguin, Jean -Luc Bennahmias and Alain Lipietz
- Europe 2009: 16.28 %, 14 MEP: EGP: Daniel Cohn- Bendit, Pascal Canfin, Karima Delli, Hélène Flautre, Michèle Rivasi, Malika Benarab- Attou, Catherine Grèze, Nicole Kiil -Nielsen, Independent: Eva Joly, José Bové, Yannick Jadot, Sandrine Bélier, Jean -Paul Besset, EFA: François Alfonsi