Smaller parties like the Quebec nationalist Bloc Québécois and the Green Party of Canada can exert their own influence over the political process.

* Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada

A government formed of a coalition of the ODS, KDU-ČSL, and the Green Party ( SZ ), and led by the leader of the ODS Mirek Topolánek finally succeeded in winning a vote of confidence on 19 January 2007.

Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.

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The EFA and European Green Party operate together to form The Greens – European Free Alliance political grouping in the European Parliament.

Following the 1999 European Parliament election EFA members formed a common European parliamentary group with the European Green Party called The Greens – European Free Alliance.

The European Conservatives and Reformists group, typified by centre-right parties such as the British Conservative Party, along with the European United Left – Nordic Green Left which is an alliance of the left-wing parties in the European Parliament, is soft eurosceptic.

The Green Party of England and Wales, which has one seat in Parliament in the House of Commons, also rejects the term " eurosceptic "; however it opposes the Euro and is critical of the current direction and structure of the EU.

Lowry, currently an independent TD, supported the Fianna Fáil – Green Party government in Dáil Éireann until March 2011.

Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.

Fianna Fáil has led governments including parties of the centre-left ( Labour and the Green Party ) and of the centre-right ( the now-defunct Progressive Democrats ) and is often seen as a pragmatic party of the establishment.

* Four Pillars of the Green Party

Alliance ' 90 / The Greens () is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party ( founded in West Germany in 1980 ) and Alliance 90 ( founded during the Revolution of 1989 – 1990 in East Germany ) in 1993.

The Hamburg state branch of the Green Party was called Grün-Alternative Liste Hamburg ( GAL ; green-alternative list ) from its foundation in 1982 until 2012.

It was at this congress, that the Greens lay their ideological foundations, proclaiming the famous Four Pillars of the Green Party:

The 1990 GDR's Green Party logo

The Greens gained a record 13 of Germany's 99 seats in these elections, mainly due to the perceived competence of Green ministers in the federal government and the unpopularity of the Social Democratic Party.

In 2010 Geneva City Council was made up of two representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), one member of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), one member of the Green Party and one member of the À gauche Toute party.

The next three most popular parties were the SVP ( 19. 92 %), the Green Party ( 17. 96 %) and the LPS Party ( 13. 43 %).

* European Green Party

Malik Rahim, former Black Panther Party activist, ran for the U. S. Congress in 2008 with the Green Party.

** Roedy Green, Canadian programmer and LGBT activist

* Ralph Nader, consumer activist and former US presidential candidate for the Green Party

The Stephen Roth Institute criticized the Green Party in 2004, calling its record " tainted by abortive attempts to expel from within its ranks notorious anti-Jewish activist Ginette Skandrani herself ethnically Jewish who has close contacts with Holocaust deniers.

Social ecology is a philosophy founded by radical Green author and activist Murray Bookchin.

In April 2006, Tillmans opened the non-profit exhibition space Between Bridges in the ground floor of his Bethnal Green studio with works from the New York artist and activist David Wojnarowicz.

In 1988, COPE entered the election an equal partner with the newly-formed Civic New Democrats, a party directly affiliated with the BC NDP ; led by anti-poverty activist Jean Swanson, the coalition made few gains but under the leadership of Jim Green in 1990, it came close to winning the election.

In the first years of the twenty-first century the paper has carried contributions from Uri Avnery, John Pilger, Green activist Derek Wall, ex-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, Green MP Caroline Lucas, Respect MP George Galloway, former MP Alan Simpson, the cartoonist Martin Rowson, and many trade union general secretaries.

Long-time environmental activist and lawyer Elizabeth May won the leadership of the federal Green party at a convention in Ottawa on August 26, 2006.

On July 9, 2008, she named as her running mate journalist and community activist Rosa Clemente and clinched the party's nomination three days later at the 2008 Green Party National Convention.

( Green Front ), one among dozens of activist groups, accounted for 35 confrontations in 1999-2001.

Its current editorial committee consists of Scottish Green Party politician Mark Ballard, Liberal Democrat Moira Craig, Scottish Socialist Party leader Colin Fox, Academic and author Gregor Gall, peace activist Isobel Lindsay, Leigh Matthews, former Labour politician John McAllion, Robin McAlpine, former Scottish Young Greens convener Peter McColl and former MEP Henry McCubbin.

David Keith Cobb ( born December 24, 1962 ) is an American activist and was the 2004 presidential candidate of the Green Party of the United States ( GPUS ).

On January 13, 2004, David Cobb won the first Green primary in the nation, that of the District of Columbia, beating local activist Sheila Bilyeu and several write-in candidates and gaining the early lead in the race for the nomination.

Respect co-initiator George Monbiot, a left-wing writer and activist, left the project before its launch, because Respect intended to stand members of its party against existing Green Party members of the European Parliament ( MEPs ).

* John Forbes Kerry's first cousin and friend, Brice Lalonde, an environmentalist activist, is a French Green party politician who was a candidate in the French presidential election, 1981 and currently mayor of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer near the Forbes family estate in France.

Green, then known as a consumer and political activist, denounced PACs as “ legalized bribery ,” and set up a PAC to end all PACs ; it was called " UnPAC ".

The Christian Credit Party was a short-lived Canadian political party founded in 1982 by perennial candidate and social credit activist, John C. Turmel who has, at various times, been involved in the Social Credit Party of Canada, the Green Party of Canada, and the Libertarian Party of Canada.

* Fernando Ferrer-a political activist, former City Council member ( 1982-87 ), former Bronx borough president ( 1987-2001 ) and 2001 primary candidate narrowly defeated by Mark Green.

Joan Elizabeth Russow ( born Ottawa, November 1, 1938 ) is a Canadian peace activist and former national leader of the Green Party of Canada from 1997 to 2001.

Patricia Helen " Pat " LaMarche ( born 26 November 1960 ) is an American political figure and activist with the Green Party ; she was the party's vice-presidential candidate in the 2004 U. S. presidential election, with David Cobb as its presidential candidate, and was one of seven co-chairs of the party's national committee, the Green Party of the United States, elected to that position on July 24, 2005.

* Adriane Carr ( born 1952 ), Canadian academic, activist, & British Columbia Green Party politician