Partia Zieloni

Party The Greens
Partia Zieloni
Party leader	Małgorzata Tracz , Marek Kossakowski
founding	March 6, 2003
Headquarters	Warsaw
Alignment	Green politics Progressivism Feminism Anti-clericalism Criticism of globalization
European party	EGP
Youth organization	Ostra Targets
Colours)	green
Sejm	3/460
senate	0/100
Eu Parliament	0/52
Sejmiks	0/555
Website	partiazieloni.pl

Partia Zieloni (German: Party Die Grünen ; until 2013 Zieloni 2004 ( Greens 2004 )) is a political party in Poland with a pro-ecological and free-liberal character. Under the name Zieloni 2004 , the party was founded on September 6, 2003 by activists from various (including ecological, feminist and human rights ) organizations, including organizations to protect the rights of sexual, religious and national minorities . The Partia Zieloni is a member ofEuropean Green Party , which was founded in Rome in February 2004 . The party also works closely with the Group of the Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament .

Political positions

Just like the green parties in other countries, the political views of the Zieloni are based on four pillars: ecology , social justice , grassroots democracy and pacifism . The political profile can be described using the usual division between left and right. The Zieloni are usually perceived as representatives of the New Left , although not only in Poland also other currents have a great importance in this movement.

The Zieloni consider the basic values ​​of their policy:

• Protection of human rights
• Social justice
• Civil society and strong, direct democracy
• environmental Protection
• Equality between the sexes and the different age groups
• Respect for national, religious and cultural identity
• Peaceful conflict resolution
• Eco-social market economy

The Partia Zieloni demands above all:

• Separation of state and religion
• Women's right to abortion
• Right of homosexuals and heterosexuals to legal partnerships
• an effective drug policy (prevention and education instead of punishment)
• Withdrawal of Polish troops from Iraq
• Education and health services remain in state hands
• Linear taxation of income
• No reintroduction of the death penalty

The party's economic program is based on the concept of an ecological and social market economy, that is, on the principle of sustainable development . Sustainable development aims to integrate social, ecological and economic goals through the implementation of an ecological tax reform. Such a reform aims to lower the taxation of labor while increasing the taxation of non-renewable and natural resources. The principle of sustainable development provides for the abolition of subsidies to the economy.

The Zieloni also advocate the effective introduction of the polluter pays principle (responsibility of the polluter for the economic and ecological damage it causes) as one of the basic principles of the integration of environmental and economic policy. The introduction of the eco-social market economy is also intended to strengthen the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and create new, green jobs, for example in the fields of renewable energies, organic agriculture, ecological construction, environmentally friendly transport and quality management. The party rejects the construction of nuclear power plants for economic and ecological reasons.

The party strives for equal opportunities for men and women in the economic field. This includes equal pay for equal work and an increase in the proportion of women in management positions in business. The Polish Greens also reject economic growth based on violations of human rights, environmental pollution and the development of the defense and nuclear industries .

The Zieloni are a party critical of globalization . Just like the Group of the Greens in the European Parliament and the European Green Party, they stand for global sustainable development, which includes:

• Protection of human rights
• Improving the quality of life and the state of the environment around the world
• Fair world trade as an alternative to free world trade
• Greater importance of development aid in foreign policy as an alternative to unilateralism and militarism

The party supports the deepening of European integration and the project of a European constitution without reference to Christianity in the constitution. The Polish Greens, together with the Green Group in the European Parliament, opposed the adoption of the Bolkestein Directive .

The Zieloni were against the plans to station parts of the American missile defense system in Poland, which, however , were shelved in 2009 on the initiative of Barack Obama .

The party achieved international fame through a debate and resolution of the European Parliament it initiated on homophobia in Poland and all of Europe, as well as the protests against the government variant in the construction of the Augustów bypass , which was to cut through the Rospuda Valley as part of the Via Baltica (European route 67) . You are also running a campaign for the Rail Baltica rail link .

Other political campaigns by the party include:

• Green economy
• Stop climate change
• Green energy
• Equal opportunities
• Eat better
• Green cities
• Green transportation

Election results

The party took part in the European elections in 2004 with the slogan “To the EU, to change it!”. She registered her list in only 3 of the 13 constituencies and received 16,288 votes, which corresponds to 0.27 percent.

On May 31, 2005, the party concluded an electoral agreement with the two social democratic parties Socjaldemokracja Polska (SdPl) and Unia Pracy (UP) for joint participation in the 2005 parliamentary elections . The Zieloni also supported Marek Borowski's candidacy in the 2005 presidential election . The list connection with the Polish Social Democrats received 459,380 votes, which corresponds to 3.89 percent. Of these, 19,644 votes went to Zieloni 2004 , which corresponds to 0.17 percent.

In the regional elections in 2006, the local groups themselves decided how to participate. Therefore, the board rejected the invitation to participate in the emerging electoral community Wspólna Polska (German Common Poland ), which later took part in the elections as Lewica i Demokraci (German Left and Democrats ). The independent list of the Greens in Warsaw received 11,210 votes or 1.6 percent, which corresponds to the seventh of 14 places. The local Green Committees in Wroclaw and Gdansk achieved less than 1 percent . In other cities, the Greens ran on local non-partisan lists or in the Lewica i Demokraci electoral community . In Konin , the Greens joined the liberal-conservative Platforma Obywatelska (PO).

In the early national parliamentary elections on October 21, 2007 , Zieloni ran in 2004 in the elections for the Senate in constituency 30 in Katowice with the candidate Monika Paca, but not in other constituencies and in the elections to the Sejm .

In the European elections on February 1, 2009 , the party again stood with the social democratic Socjaldemokracja Polska (SdPl) and the left-liberal Partia Demokratyczna (PD) under the motto Porozumienie dla Przyszłości (German agreement for the future ). The electoral community was able to achieve 179,602, which corresponds to 2.44 percent. Zieloni 2004 itself received 26,002 votes, which corresponds to 0.35 percent. The party members received 13,748 votes, which corresponds to 7.65 percent of the votes cast for the list.

Because of these relatively low voting results, the party has not yet been able to place any MPs in the Polish or European Parliament.

During the election campaign for the 2010 presidential election , the party supported Grzegorz Napieralski on the basis of the Green Index , a green-oriented analysis of the election programs of important candidates. The candidate of the post-communist party Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (German Federation of the Democratic Left , SLD for short) achieved the best results during the analysis and received 78 points on a scale from −200 to +200 points. In the actual presidential election, Napieralski came third with 13.68 percent. In the subsequent runoff election in 2004, Zieloni encouraged voters in general to vote, but did not directly support either candidate.

From 2014 to the end of 2015, the Zieloni were represented in the Sejm for the first time after a change of party for MP Anna Grodzka .

For the 2015 parliamentary elections , the Greens, together with the SLD , Twój Ruch and other left-wing parties, founded the electoral alliance Zjednoczona Lewica (United Left). This alliance, however, missed entry into parliament.

Board of Directors and Party Council

In the party, the principle of parity applies. It is led by a man and a woman at the same time. Jacek Bożek was the first chairman of the party and held office until 2004. In November 2004 he was replaced by Dariusz Szwed. The chairwoman of Zieloni 2004 from its inception to 2008 was Magdalena Mosiewicz, her successor was Agnieszka Grzybek until April 2010. Between 2010 and 2013 the party was represented by Dariusz Szwed and Małgorzata Tkacz-Janik, and since March 2013 Adam Ostolski and Agnieszka Grzybek have led theirs Fortunes.

Well-known members of Zieloni 2004 include the writers Kinga Dunin and Olga Tokarczuk , the feminist Kazimiera Szczuka and the civil rights activist Krystian Legierski .

New generation green city

Dariusz Szwed and Beata Maciejewska have published the so-called green urban manifesto with the title Green City of New Generation in Polish and English.

The publication discusses positive internships and examples from all countries in Europe. In this way it should be proven that the construction of a democratic, open, socially just and ecological community within the cities is possible along with the principles of green politics. The basic postulates include:

• Equality and diversity in green urban and spatial planning, gender democracy, equal access to a clean environment and cultural assets
• Mobility and development of public transport, taking into account the interests of pedestrians and cyclists in the communicative strategies
• Organic food and local production
• Role of the city administration in promoting energy economy, renewable energy sources and the decentralization of energy production and transfer, free software
• Criticism of globalization , efforts for global solidarity and a common fight against climate change

On the basis of the postulates mentioned above, the marginalized topics, such as gender mainstreaming or energetic decentralization, should be introduced into the public discourse. Culture is seen as a means of shaping social capital and mechanisms of direct democracy. The campaign for this publication took place in many major Polish cities, such as Warsaw , Danzig , Bromberg , Gleiwitz and Thorn .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Green Manifesto on the Partia Zieloni website ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Campaigns on the Partia Zieloni website ( memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ We support progressive politics, we fight against the conservative right
4. ↑ Zieloni before the runoff election: We do not support any candidate
5. ↑ "Zielone Miasto Nowej Generacji" (PDF; 1.4 MB)

Web links

• Website of Partia Zieloni (Polish)
• Green information portal (Polish)