Trevor Sargent

Trevor Sargent ( born July 1, 1960) is an Irish politician, member of the Green Party and was from 1992 to 2011 Teachta Dala, Dáil Éireann.

As a committed environmentalist came Sargent 1982, while he was in Dunmanway, County Cork worked as a teacher, by the Cork Green Movement to the Ecology Party (such as the Green Party was then known).

1989 Sargent went to Europe for the general election, but was defeated with only 8.3 % of the votes in his constituency. He was elected for the first time in the Dáil Éireann in 1992, which he is to this day. In October 2001, he was elected the first party leader of his party. In July 2007, the Congress approved the Green Party government participation with the civil party Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats. Then the this government involvement favorable Sargent resigned from his post as chairman of the party, because he had refused to form a government of his party with the Fianna Fáil during the election campaign in 2007 and takes up no cabinet post for himself. New Party Chairman, John Gormley. Until his resignation in February 2010, he held the post of not belonging to the Cabinet Minister of State for Food and Horticulture (Minister of State for Food and Horticulture ). In February 2011, he lost in the election to the 31st Dáil Éireann his seat in the House.