Green Free List
The Green Free List ( GFL ) was a party in the canton of Bern that was active under this name until 2006. In 2006 there was a merger with the Green Alliance of Bern to form the Green Canton of Bern at cantonal level . Local parties continue to exist under the name Green Free List , for example in the city of Bern (where it has been the city president since 2017 ) or in Zollikofen .
history
At the beginning of the cantonal party there was an electoral list in support of the former free-spirited politician Leni Robert for election to the National Council in 1983. This free list soon became a party that was able to celebrate great successes in the cantonal and national elections that followed. From 1986 to 1990 she provided two government councilors in the canton.
In 1991, Junge Bern , a center-left party in Bern that had existed since the 1950s and to which Mani Matter and Klaus Schädelin belonged, joined the GFL and became its local branch in Bern .
Most recently, the GFL Canton of Bern was represented with 10 seats in the Grand Council . In 1997, the addition of Greens was added to the Free List to show that it belonged to the Swiss Greens .
In May 2006 a merger with the Green Alliance of Bern was decided to form the new Green Canton of Bern party . The respective local parties also merged in some municipalities, for example in Biel / Bienne and Köniz , the second and fourth largest municipalities in the canton. In the city of Bern, however, both parties still exist side by side as two local groups of the Green Canton of Bern.
In the cantonal elections, the united Green Canton of Bern achieved a share of 12.9% (19 seats out of 160). From 2006 to 2018, the Green Canton of Bern was again represented in the cantonal government with Bernhard Pulver (member of the GFL City of Bern).
The Green Free List as well as the Green Alliance belonged - like the Green Canton of Bern today - to the Green Party of Switzerland .
literature
- Peter Züst: The Green Free List and the Green Alliance in the Canton of Bern: Party membership and political attitudes of the members in comparison . Licentiate thesis, Institute for Political Science, Bern 2006 (manuscript).
- Hans Beat Schaffner (Ed.): Green moves: 20 interviews after 20 years of the Swiss Green Party. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-0340-0669-1 .
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the GFL City of Bern
- History on the website of the Green Canton of Bern ( Memento from March 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- «When environmentalists became political. A brief history of the Greens, who were founded in the canton of Bern 20 years ago, in June 1987 » by Werner Seitz, in: Der Bund, June 27, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ GFL Zollikofen. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.gfl-bern.ch/index.php?page=398