Partido Verde (Brazil)
Partido Verde | |
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Party leader | José Luiz Penna |
founding | 17th January 1986 |
Headquarters | Brasília |
Alignment | Environmental protection , third way , left-wing liberalism |
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Parliament seats |
Federal MPs (2020): 4/513 State MPs (2018): 27/1024 City prefects (2016): 1028/5568 City Councilors (2016): 1519/56810 |
Number of members | 365,589 (May 2020) |
Website | Partido Verde |
The Partido Verde ( Green Party , PV ) is a Brazilian political party that was founded in January 1986 under the influence of European left-wing alternative models.
The most important founding member was the former revolutionary and opponent of the military regime Fernando Gabeira .
In the congressional elections on October 3, 2006 , the party received with 3,368,560 valid votes, 3.6% of the vote. It is represented by 13 members in the federal parliament and also in the parliaments of a number of federal states.
Marina Silva , former environment minister in the Lula government, ran as a candidate for the Green Party in the presidential elections on October 3, 2010 and received almost 20% of the vote.
ideology
The party's most important agenda items are a market economy that is regulated by the state with the aim of sustainable development , and the reduction of social inequality. It represents the principles of pacifism , federalism , parliamentarism and direct democracy . At the international level, it is a member of the Global Greens .
According to its self-image, the party cannot be classified according to the right-left scheme, and it forms alliances with various partners. At the federal level, the party officially supported the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2003 to 2005 . It is true that this support was terminated due to disagreements about environmental policy; Most recently, culture minister and musician Gilberto Gil was a member of the party in the government, but announced his resignation in July 2008.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Tribunal Superior Eleitoral: Estatísticas de eleitorado - Filiados. Retrieved June 6, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ "Green shooting star screwing up Lula heiress" , Der Spiegel , October 4, 2010
- ^ "Beauty and rot" , NZZ , April 4, 2008