Les Verts

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Les Verts ( The Greens ) was a party in the French National Assembly . Her full name was Les Verts, Confédération Écologiste - Parti Écologiste . She belonged to the European Green Party and the Global Greens . In 2010 she was part of the newly founded party Europe Écologie-Les Verts .

In elections it entered lists and collusion with other left parties, in which the Parti socialiste and the Communist Party of France were mostly the main decision-makers.

Les Verts were chosen mainly in large cities, especially the technology centers of Toulouse and Grenoble .

Party history

The participation of ecological groups in political life in France dates back to the 1970s. The nomination of the agronomist René Dumont as a candidate for the presidential election in 1974 was symbolic in this respect . In the following years the ecological movement nominated candidates for every election: 1977 for local elections, 1978 for elections for the national parliament (under the name Ecologie 78) , 1979 for the European elections ( Europe Écologie ), 1981 for the presidential election with Brice Lalonde from 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 this party. He remained loyal to his association, the Amis de la Terre , until he founded his own party in 1990 ( Génération Écologie ).

On April 24, 1988, Antoine Waechter won 3.8% of the vote as a presidential candidate. In 1986 he had asserted himself as the leader within the new party and largely determined its political position outside the conventional camps. The Greens said goodbye to this line in 1994 and clearly joined the left-wing groups. Then Antoine Waechter left the party to found the Mouvement Écologiste Indépendant .

In the presidential elections on April 23, 1995, Dominique Voynet won 3.3% of the vote as the Green candidate.

After the victory of the left in the 1997 parliamentary elections, Dominique Voynet was accepted into the government of Lionel Jospin as Minister for Environment and Spatial Planning (replaced by Yves Cochet in 2001 ) . In 2000, she was followed by a second Green MP: Guy Hascoet, State Secretary for Solidarity Economy.

In March 2001, when Bertrand Delanoë was elected mayor of Paris with the support of the Greens, he appointed Christophe Girard, Yves Contassot and Denis Baupin as deputies to important posts.

In the presidential election the following year, 5.25% of voters voted for the green candidate Noël Mamère .

In January 2003, Gilles Lemaire succeeded Dominique Voynet as chairman of the party. On January 16, 2005, Yann Wehrling , former spokesman for the party, replaced him in office.

Since 2001 there was a youth organization affiliated with the party - the Green Youth ( Jeunes Verts ).

On November 13, 2010 "Les Verts" dissolved and on November 14, 2010 merged with the electoral alliance Europe Écologie to form the new party Europe Écologie-Les Verts .

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