Miljøpartiet De Grønne

Miljøpartiet De Grønne Miljøpartiet Dei Grøne Environment party The Greens
Party leader	Une Aina Bastholm
Secretary General	Lars Gaupset (party secretary)
vice-chairman	Arild Hermstad , Kriss Rokkan Iversen
founding	October 29, 1988
Headquarters	Skippergata 33, Oslo
Youth organization	Grønn Ungdom
Alignment	Green politics
Colours)	green
Parliament seats	1/169 ( Storting , 2017 )
Number of members	5,000 (2013)
International connections	Global Greens (GG)
European party	European Green Party (EGP)
Website	www.mdg.no

Logo from 2011 to 2013

Logo until 2011

Miljøpartiet De Grønne or nynorsk Miljøpartiet Dei Grøne (MDG; German: Green Party The Greens ) is a Norwegian party that the European Green Party is connected. In the parliamentary elections in Norway in 2013 , the party succeeded for the first time in the national parliament of Norway, the Storting . There, with Une Aina Bastholm, she has one of 169 members. Since the local elections in September 2015, the Greens have also been represented in the provincial parliaments and in numerous municipalities.

history

As early as 1987, four representatives of a group called De Grønne ("The Greens") were elected to Halden City Council. In Kristiansand a so-called By- og Miljøvern List (City and Environmental Protection List ) had six seats on the city council, in Fredrikstad a similar group held four seats. Also in the provincial assembly ( Fylkesting ) of Akershus were De Grønne represented.

From these local and regional lists, the party Miljøpartiet De Grønne emerged on October 29, 1988 . The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster was an important trigger for the foundation .

Since 1996 the party has its own youth organization called Grønn Ungdom (Green Youth). In line with its basic democratic self-image, it does not have a chairperson, but rather two spokespersons. In 2008 the peace and conflict researcher Johan Galtung was awarded honorary membership.

In the parliamentary elections in Norway, the party initially received well below one percent of the vote. It was able to record its first success in the 2013 storting election with 2.8% nationwide, which, however, failed at the 4% hurdle . But she won a district mandate in the Oslo constituency , so that Rasmus Hansson became the first representative of the MDG in Norway's parliament. He was Secretary General of WWF Norway from 2000 to 2012 and has headed the CIENS Research Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental and Social Studies at the University of Oslo since January 2013 .

In 2018, the party members decided in a primary election that the MDG should also fall back on the traditional model of party leadership with a party chairman and two deputies. Until then, the party was led by two national spokesmen. On April 25, 2020, the previous national spokeswoman Une Aina Bastholm became the new party leader.

Alignment

The party draws on the deep ecology of Arne Næss and the nonviolence of Mahatma Gandhi . In their program it says:

«Miljøpartiet De Grønne is a young party with a policy for the present and the future based on fundamental green values. These values ​​can be summarized in four solidarities: solidarity with nature, solidarity with the oppressed and marginalized in one's own country, solidarity with people in other parts of the world, solidarity with future generations . "

Election results for Storting since 1989

Election year	%	Seats
1989	0.4%	-
1993	0.1%	-
1997	0.2%	-
2001	0.2%	-
2005	0.1%	-
2009	0.3%	-
2013	2.8%	1
2017	3.2%	1

Web links

• Miljøpartiet De Grønne Official Website (Norwegian)
• Grønn Ungdom youth organization (Norwegian)
• Grønne Student Student Organization (Norwegian)
• Grønt Kvinnenettverk Women's Network (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Gjerde: Hun blir MDGs første partileder: - Four clear for å gå i regjering. Aftenposten, February 23, 2020, accessed on February 24, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål). 
2. ↑ Ble ny MDG leather - nå advarer hun Erna Solberg. Dagsavisen, April 25, 2020, accessed April 25, 2020 (Norwegian).