Miljöpartiet de Gröna

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Miljöpartiet de Gröna
"The Green Party"
Swedish Green logo
Isabella LövinPer Bolund
Party leader Speaker:
Isabella Lövin ,
Per Bolund
Secretary General Märta Stenevi (party secretary)
founding 20th September 1981
Headquarters Pustegränd 1–3, Stockholm
Alignment Green politics
Colours) green
Parliament seats
16/349
Number of members 15,500 (2011)
International connections Global Greens (GG)
MEPs
3/21
European party European Green Party (EGP)
EP Group The Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament (Greens / EFA)
Website www.mp.se

Miljöpartiet de Gröna ("Environment Party The Greens", MP for short ) is a political party represented in the Swedish Reichstag . She received 4.4% of the vote and 16 of 349 seats in the 2018 Reichstag election .

The Greens are traditionally led by a female-male dual leadership. The party spokesmen are Isabella Lövin (since 2016) and Per Bolund (since 2019).

history

The Greens emerged from the alternative movement , environmental movement and the anti-nuclear power movement of the 1970s and organized themselves as a political party in 1981. In the aftermath of the Chernobyl catastrophe , which hit Scandinavia in part, the Greens won the 1988 election to overcome the four percent hurdle and enter the Reichstag.

The core area of ​​the green party is environmental policy . The former anti- EU stance has developed over the years into an, albeit critical, pro-EU stance. In the 1991 election , the Greens missed the four percent threshold, but were represented in a number of provincial parliaments and local councils. With the 1994 election they returned to parliament and, after the 1998 election, initiated parliamentary cooperation with the social democratic minority government that lasted until the 2006 election . As a result of the 2014 Reichstag elections , the Greens took on government responsibility for the first time as a junior partner of the Social Democrats in a minority government, the Löfven I government . The red-green coalition was continued with the minority government Löfven II after the 2018 Reichstag election .

ideology

As in many other European countries have also the Swedish Greens from a more alternative and grassroots links party to a liberal Civic Party developed; this may be due to the coexistence with the partially libertarian Vänsterpartiet . The establishment as an independent green party represents a big difference to the Norwegian and Danish party systems, for example , where the socialist people's parties almost completely absorbed and covered the ecological and pacifist movements , which is why independent green parties were unable to distinguish themselves there for a long time. In terms of environmental policy, the Miljöpartiet overlaps with the Vänsterpartiet and the Center Party . Compared to the latter, the Greens were only able to distinguish themselves in the course of the increasing neoliberalization of the Center Party. In terms of social policy , the Miljöpartiet is located between social democrats and liberals .

Election results

Reichstag elections

Information from Statistiska Centralbyrån .

Party spokesman

Until 1984, the party was represented externally by the chairman of the Political Affairs Committee.

Other well-known politicians

Web links

Commons : Miljöpartiet de Gröna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical election statistics ( Memento of July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Statistiska Centralbyrån