Green Party (Ireland)

Comhaontas Glas Green Party
Party leader	Eamon Ryan
founding	1981 (1987 under today's name)
Headquarters	16-17 Suffolk Street, Dublin 2
Youth organization	Young Greens
Alignment	Green politics
Colours)	  Green and gold
Parliamentary seats Dáil Éireann	2020 : 12/160
Seanad Éireann	2020: 4/60
Local government in Ireland	49/949
International connections	Global Greens
MEPs	2/13
European party	EGP
EP Group	Greens / EFA
Website	www.greenparty.ie

The Green Party (official name: Green Party / Comhaontas glass ) is the Ecology Party of Ireland (ecological party in Ireland) in 1981 by Dublin teacher Christopher Fettes founded party that in 1983 Green Alliance has been renamed and in 1987 received its present name.

history

The party first ran in the 1982 election, but only received 0.2% of the vote. After changing its name in 1983, the party took part with Christopher Fettes in the 1984 European elections and achieved 1.9% in the Dublin constituency . The following year, the party won its first election when Marcus Counihan was elected to the local council in local elections in Killarney - for the Republic as a whole, the party ran 34 candidates and got 0.6% of the vote. It was only in the 1989 election (and renamed again) that the party won its first seat in the House of Commons when Roger Garland was elected in the Dublin South constituency.

But it was not until the election in 2002 that the party was able to make further progress, when it achieved 3.6% of the vote and was able to triple its number of seats from 2 to 6. The next political setback came two years later when the Green Party lost both seats in the European Parliament. The results could not be maintained at the local level either; In 2004, only 18 of 878 seats were won - even if the party had doubled its number of seats. For the first time it was possible to gain a foothold outside of Dublin; JJ Power was elected in Naas and Niall Ó Brolcháin in Galway .

The Northern Irish Green Party is part of the party. Through this the Green Party is also represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly . Although the Green Party is a member of the European Green Party , it takes a somewhat more skeptical attitude towards European politics than 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 or Labor Party .

In the 2007 election, the party increased its share of national first preference votes from 3.84% to 4.69%. Even so, the number of its MPs remained at six. Dan Boyle lost his seat in Cork South Central and Mary White won a seat in Carlow Kilkenny. She became the first female MP in this constituency.

In July 2007, the Green Party congress approved government participation with the Fianna Fáil bourgeois party and the Progressive Democrats . Thereupon the leader of the Green Party Trevor Sargent resigned from his office. Patricia McKenna and John Gormley are running as party leaders after Sargent's resignation. The new party chairman was John Gormley. Well-known politicians of the Green Party include Eamon Ryan , who was Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and who was elected party chairman in May 2011 to succeed Gormley.

In January 2011, the Green Party withdrew from the government and joined the opposition. In the early parliamentary elections on February 21, 2011 , the party lost all seats and fell from 4.6% of first-time preferences to 1.8% of first-time preferences.

Youth wing

The Green Party has had a youth wing known as the Young Greens (Irish: Óige Ghlas ) since 2002 , with several hundred members in branches across the country.

Election results

year	choice	Share of votes	Seats
Nov 1982	Dáil Éireann Nov. 1982	0.2%	0/166
1984	European elections in 1984	0.5%	0/15
1987	Dáil Éireann 1987	0.4%	0/166
1989	Dáil Éireann 1989	1.5%	1/166
1989	European elections 1989	3.7%	0/15
1992	Dáil Éireann 1992	1.4%	1/166
1994	European elections in 1994	7.9%	2/15
1997	Dáil Éireann 1997	2.8%	2/166
1999	European elections 1999	6.7%	2/15
2002	Dáil Éireann 2002	3.8%	6/166
2004	2004 European elections	4.3%	0/13
2007	Dáil Éireann 2007	4.7%	6/166
2009	European elections 2009	1.9%	0/12
2011	Dáil Éireann 2011	1.8%	0/166
2014	European elections 2014	4.9%	0/11
2016	Dáil Éireann 2016	2.7%	2/158
2019	European elections 2019	11.4%	2/11
2020	Dáil Éireann 2020	7.1%	12/160

See also

• Elections in Ireland
• Political parties in Ireland

Web links

Commons : Green Party of Ireland  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Young Greens - Official Website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tagesschau.sf.tv: Green participation in government in Ireland - coalition with Ahern's Fianna Fail party
2. ^ "McKenna and Gormley in race for Green Party leadership" ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Greenparty, July 6, 2007.
3. ^ The Irish Times : Ryan elected Green Party leader , May 27, 2011
4. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12262796
5. ^ Election 2011 - National Summary , Raidió Teilifís Éireann