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

The Jersey Green Party succeeded in having candidates elected in the 1980s.

Gawain's trek leads him directly into the centre of the Pearl Poet's dialect region, where the candidates for the locations of the Castle at Hautdesert and the Green Chapel stand.

The Green Party has its strongest popular support on the Pacific Coast, Upper Great Lakes, and Northeast, as reflected in the geographical distribution of Green candidates elected.

Since the disastrous election result in 1924 the Liberals were now very much the third party in British politics, but still Lloyd George was able to release money from his fund to finance candidates and ideas for public works to reduce unemployment ( as detailed in pamphlets such as the " Yellow Book " and the " Green Book ").

The first Green Party in North America, was formed in British Columbia, Canada on February 4, 1983, registering as both a provincial society and a political party shortly before the 1983 provincial election in which it fielded four candidates and received 0. 19 % of the vote under the leadership of Adriane Carr.

That misperception was not helped by the Green Party's tactic of running only regional candidates and appealing for " second votes.

Some Green candidates in the elections reject classification as " left " or " right ".

History of Green Party of Alaska candidates in statewide elections:

Despite strong resistance from anti-fascists, including the local Jewish community, the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain, the BUF found a following in the East End of London, where in the London County Council elections of March 1937 it obtained reasonably successful results in Bethnal Green, Shoreditch and Limehouse, polling almost 8, 000 votes, although none of its candidates was actually elected.

1 ) COPE, Vision, and the civic Green party will run less than a full slate of candidates for city council, park board and the board of education as follows:

On November 15, 2008 Vancouver voters replaced the NPA-dominated council with a near sweep of COPE, Green and Vision Vancouver candidates.

Both electorates saw strong Green votes in the 2001 election, and it was expected the Green candidates, rather than the Liberal Party, would provide the main opposition to the ALP in the 2004 election, although the Liberals ultimately did narrowly retain their lead over the Greens in these electorates.

The Green Party in the United States has won elected office mostly at the local level ; most winners of public office in the United States who are considered Greens have won nonpartisan-ballot elections ( that is, elections in which the candidates ' party affiliations were not printed on the ballot ).

Green Party candidates received 2. 2 % of the vote in the ridings they contested, and 2. 1 % of the vote province-wide in British Columbia despite not running a full slate of candidates there.

The Green Party of Canada enjoyed a 79 % increase in support from the previous election, and saw its greatest success in British Columbia where it received 2 % of the vote despite not running a full slate of candidates in the province.

There were only six Green candidates from Quebec in the 1993 election.

During the 2004 federal election the Green Party of Canada became the fourth federal political party ever to run candidates in all the ridings.

Momentum continued to build around the Green Party of Canada and in the 2006 federal election the Green Party again ran 308 candidates and increased its share of the popular vote to 4. 5 percent, once again securing federal financing as a result.

Some prominent Green Party members blamed the public discussion of strategic voting and the media's misrepresentation of Ms. May's comments during the election campaign for the failure of some promising candidates to reach Election Canada's 10 % reimbursement threshold, as well as reducing the party's federal funding based on popular vote.

Just over a month after the 2004 election, Camejo was elected as one of California's delegates to the National Committee of the Green Party and established the GDI, " Greens for Democracy and Independence ," a cadre group within the larger Green Party of California that ran candidates for local Green County Councils, another organizational effort that failed to sustain itself.