What is "green party"

n. a political party whose principal concern is the protection of the environment.

The Green Party is a green political party in Ireland that operates in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It was founded as the Ecology Party of Ireland in 1981 by Dublin teacher Christopher Fettes. The party became the Green Alliance in 1983 and in 1987 was renamed to its current title in English. Its leader is Eamon Ryan, its deputy leader is Catherine Martin and its chairman is Roderic O'Gorman.

Green Party candidates have been elected to all levels of representation; local, Dáil and European Parliament, and in 2007 the party gained its first representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Green Party in Northern Ireland having become a regional branch of the party the previous year.

The Greens became part of the Irish government for the first time following the 2007 general election, having agreed upon a programme for government in coalition with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats. In the wake of the Irish financial crisis, the party lost a significant amount of its support and came under pressure to withdraw its support for the administration. In January 2011 the party withdrew from government, after passing legislation for European Union and International Monetary Fund financial support for the Republic's bank bailout, and a dispute with Fianna Fáil over the appointment of cabinet ministers. In the February 2011 election, the party suffered a wipeout, losing all six of its TDs. Following the 2011 Seanad Éireann election, the party no longer had any representatives in the Oireachtas. In the February 2016 election, the Green Party returned to the Dáil with two seats, becoming the first Irish political party to lose all seats at an election and win seats after that. Following this, Grace O'Sullivan was elected to the Seanad on the 26th of April that year.

It has two representatives in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Green Party or Greens Party is the name of several different political parties orientated around green politics:

The Green Party (, or the "Green Environmental Party", commonly referred to in Swedish as "Miljöpartiet" or MP) is a political party in Sweden based upon green politics. The party was founded in 1981, emerging out of a sense of discontent with the existing parties' environmental policies, and sparked by the anti- nuclear power movement following the 1980 nuclear power referendum. The party's breakthrough would come in the 1988 general election when they won seats in the Swedish Riksdag for the first time, capturing 5.5 percent of the vote, and becoming the first new party to enter parliament in seventy years. Three years later, they dropped back below the 4 percent threshold, but returned to parliament again in 1994, and since have retained representation there. The party is represented nationally by two spokespeople, always one man and one woman. These roles are currently held by Gustav Fridolin and Isabella Lövin.

In the 2014 general election, the Greens received 6.9% of the vote and 25 seats, making the party the fourth largest in the Riksdag.

Since 3 October 2014, the Green Party is the minor partner to the Swedish Social Democratic Party in the Löfven Cabinet minority coalition government, the first time in its history that the Greens have entered government.

The Brazilian Green Party (, PV) was constituted after the military dictatorship period and, like other Green Parties around the world, is committed to establishing a set of policies on ensuring social-equity and sustainable development. One of the party's founding members was the journalist and former anti-dictatorship revolutionary Fernando Gabeira (a federal deputy between 1995 and 2011), Alfredo Sirkis and Carlos Minc. The founding of the Rio de Janeiro section of the Brazilian Green Party was led by a delegation from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, composed among others by Olga Maria Carvalho Luz, Luiz Henrique Gevaerd Odebrecht, Marcos Bayer, and Consuelo Luz Lins.

not to be confused with Slovak Green Party

The Green Party (, SZ), until January 2006 called Green Party in Slovakia , is an environmentalist political party in Slovakia without parliamentary representation.

The Green Party , often shortened to The Greens is a Romanian political party centred on green politics. It is a member of the European Green Party.

Colombian Green Party is a Colombian political party associated with the philosophies of the Green party as well as the " political middle". The party advocates for having an ecological conscience, social justice, participative democracy, non violence resolutions, human sustainability and respect for diversity in order to improve the Colombian social, economic and political struggle and bring to an end the Colombian armed conflict. The Party is mostly influenced by the French party " The Greens" and the Global Greens.

The Green Party (, Zelena Stranka, ZES) is a Slovakian minority political party in Serbia based in Novi Sad.

The Green Party, also known as the Green Party UK, was a Green political party in the United Kingdom.

Prior to 1985 it was called The Ecology Party, and before that PEOPLE. In 1990, it separated into three political parties:

• the Green Party of England and Wales
• the Scottish Green Party
• the Green Party in Northern Ireland

Despite the UK Green Party no longer existing as an entity, "Green Party" (singular) is still used in most media to refer collectively to all of the Green Party of England and Wales, the Scottish Green Party and the Green Party in Northern Ireland, for example in reporting opinion polls and election results.

The Green Party (, , ) is a Norwegian political party. The party holds one seat in the Parliament of Norway (gaining 2.8% in the 2013 elections) and also has representation in municipal councils and county councils (gaining 4.2% in the 2015 elections). The Green Party advocates green politics, and has been described as centre-left by academics and voters. The party itself claims distance to the two dominant right-wing and left-wing political blocs, jointly denominated as "the fossil block".

The Green Party is a member of the European Green Party and the Global Greens, and was founded with the German Greens as its stated model. It maintains close ties to other Green parties including the German Greens and the Swedish Greens.

The Green Party is a political party in the Czech Republic.

The party was founded in February 1990 but for a long time it struggled to obtain significant influence in Czech politics. In the 2002 legislative election the party received 2.4% of the vote. Internal conflicts and constant bickering were covered by the media much more than party's political aims but changes in the party's policy were made after the general party congress in September 2005, resulting in much more focus on the political aims and their propagation in media.

The party held a single seat ( Jaromír Štětina) in the Senate (upper house of the Parliament of the Czech Republic) between 2004 and 2010. In the 2006 legislative election the party received 6.3% of the vote and won six seats in the lower house – the Chamber of Deputies. This subsequently led to taking part in the governing coalition, together with the Civic Democrats (ODS) and the Christian Democrats (KDU–ČSL) from January 2007 to March 2009 (for more details see Mirek Topolánek's Second Cabinet). However the Green Party was unable to repeat its success in 2010 elections, losing all seats in both chambers.