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Vihreä liitto
Gröna förbundet
Green Bund
Logo of the VIHR
Party leader Maria Ohisalo
Party leader Maria Ohisalo
Secretary General Veli Liikanen
vice-chairman Riikka Karppinen
Fatim Diarra
Jaakko Mustakallio
founding 1987
Headquarters Fredrikinkatu 33 A
FIN - 00120 Helsinki
Alignment Green politics , left-wing liberalism
Colours) green
Parliament seats
20/200
Number of members 8,034 (2013)
International connections Global Greens
MEPs
3/14
European party European Green Party (EGP)
EP Group The Greens / European Free Alliance (Greens / EFA)
Website www.vihreat.fi
Green election campaign stand in Helsinki , Iso Roobertinkatu 2011.

The Green Bund ( Finnish. Vihreä liitto , also Vihreät , "The Greens", Vihr for short ; Swedish. Gröna förbundet ) is the name of the green party in Finland . Founded in 1987 initially only as a registered association, it transformed into a political party in 1988 and brought together several social movements: In addition to supporters of the environmental movement and "alternative countercultures", it gathered people who stood up for peace, human rights, equality for women and Using children, disabled people and LGBTQ people . In addition to questions of environmental protection, the protection of minorities and the strengthening of democratic structures therefore also play an important role in party activities. New forms of co-determination and close contact with civil society are sought.

Support for the Greens is strongest in the big cities and their surrounding areas. In Helsinki they are the strongest force with a 23.5% share of the vote. The alliance has been represented in the Finnish parliament since 1983. The European Parliament in 2009, two deputies were dispatched, 2014 delegates and 2019 two more.

history

The origins of the Greens go back to the protests in Koijärvi and the Helsinki movement in the 1970s and 80s. Numerous founding members were already active in these protests, and Osmo Soininvaara , Pekka Sauri and Heidi Hautala experienced their political socialization there from today's party personalities . The environmental movement took part in the parliamentary elections of 1983 without a fixed organization and won two seats with Kalle Könkkölä and Ville Komsi .

In the mid-1980s the desire and the need to find a more solid organizational structure grew. In 1987 the Green Bund was founded as an umbrella organization without party ambitions. After a fundamentalist split-off had formed its own party, in 1988 the Green League was transformed into a political party. Although many Fundis eventually returned to the Green Bund, the dispute led to a defeat in the 1988 local elections.

The party stabilized in the early 1990s and achieved success in the 1991 parliamentary and local elections in 1992. As a result of the economic depression, economic and social issues moved more into focus. The green party program was then thematically expanded.

Although the Greens suffered slight losses in the 1995 parliamentary elections, they joined the so-called Rainbow Coalition led by the Social Democrat Paavo Lipponen . Pekka Haavisto became Environment Minister, the first Green Minister in Western Europe and the second in the world. After the 1999 election, the Greens received another ministerial post. In protest against the initiation of the approval process for a fifth nuclear power plant, however, the Greens soon left the government. The 2003 parliamentary elections were successful for the Greens, but they remained in the opposition. After the 2007 election, they occupied the ministerial posts for Justice ( Tuija Brax ) and Labor (2007–09 Tarja Cronberg , 2009–11 Anni Sinnemäki ). In the Katainen cabinet , the Greens have had two ministers since the 2011 election: Heidi Hautala (replaced by Pekka Haavisto in October 2013) took over the international development department in the Foreign Ministry, while the party leader at the time, Ville Niinistö, became environment minister. Under Katainen's successor Alexander Stubb , the Greens left the government at the end of September 2014 after the majority of the Stubb cabinet had voted in favor of building a new nuclear power plant.

Opposition to nuclear power and the climate debate

Initially, as part of the anti-nuclear movement , the Greens called for the abolition of nuclear energy in Finland . The basic program of 2012 includes the requirement to shut down the Finnish nuclear power plants "as soon as possible". In view of climate change and the consequences of global warming , the party congress in June 2018 adopted a motion with a large majority that should make it possible to support “good power plant projects”. This is intended to keep the CO 2 balance in order in order to be able to achieve the ambitious climate targets. In the long term, however, the party is sticking to the nuclear phase-out .

Party leader

Election results

Parliamentary elections

Election results in parliamentary elections
1.47%
4.03%
6.82%
6.52%
7.27%
8.01%
8.46%
7.25%
8.53%
11.50%
1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
year MPs be right percent
1983 02 043,754 01.47%
1987 04th 115,988 04.03%
1991 10 185.894 06.82%
1995 09 181.198 06.52%
1999 11 194,846 07.27%
2003 14th 223,564 08.01%
2007 15th 234.429 08.46%
2011 10 213.172 07.25%
2015 15th 253.102 08.53%
2019 20th 353,654 11.50%

Local elections

In the 2017 local elections , the party was able to increase its share of the vote to 12.5 percent. This was celebrated euphorically as a top result in a global comparison. The proportion of green members in local councils rose nationwide from 3.3% to 5.9%.

Election results in local elections
2.83%
2.34%
6.94%
6.28%
7.72%
7.37%
8.94%
8.54%
12.5%
1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2017
year Council members be right percent
1984 101 076,441 02.83%
1988 094 061,581 02.34%
1992 343 184,787 06.94%
1996 291 149,334 06.28%
2000 338 171,707 07.72%
2004 314 175.933 07.37%
2008 370 227,999 08.94%
2012 323 213.100 08.54%
2017 534 320.235 12.5%0

European elections

year MPs be right percent
1996 1 170,670 07.59%
1999 2 166,786 13.43%
2004 1 172,844 10.43%
2009 2 206,439 12.40%
2014 1 161.263 09.33%
2019 2 292,892 16.00%

Presidential election

year candidate be right percent placement
2000 Heidi Hautala 0.100,740 3.3% 5.
2006 Heidi Hautala 0.105,248 3.5% 4th
2012 Pekka Haavisto 0.574,275
1,077,425 		18.76%
37.41% 		2.
2.
2018 Pekka Haavisto 0.370,823 12.4%0 2.

MPs

The Green Bund has been represented in the Finnish Parliament by fifteen members since 2015: Touko Aalto , Outi Alanko-Kahiluoto , Pekka Haavisto , Hanna Halmeenpää , Satu Hassi , Heli Järvinen , Emma Kari , Johanna Karimäki , Jyrki Kasvi , Krista Mikkonen , Ville Niinistö , Olli -Poika Parviainen , Jani Toivola , Antero Vartia and Ozan Yanar . There is no compulsory faction.

Heidi Hautala has been a member of the European Parliament since the 2014 election .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Turun Sanomat, accessed on May 15, 2015
  2. ↑ Official result of the 2019 parliamentary elections for the Helsinki constituency Finnish Ministry of Justice (Finnish, English, Swedish)
  3. ↑ [2]
  4. ↑ [3]
  5. ↑ Freddi Wahlström: Analyze: De gröna vill gärna ha ett enigt parti yle.fi (Swedish), September 6, 2018, accessed on October 21, 2018.
  6. ↑ Niinistö on the election result of the Greens: “One of the strongest results in world history!” (In Finnish) : Tämä on yksi maailmanhistorian kovimpia tuloksia, mitä vihreät ovat koskaan tehneet missään päin maailmaa. ("This is one of the strongest results that Greens have ever achieved anywhere in the world.")
  7. ↑ Official election results (in English)
  8. ^ Defeat for right-wing populists. taz.de, April 10, 2017.