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 Greens (, ; VEC or LV ) was a Green political party on the centre-left of the political spectrum in France.

An aerial tramway line connects downtown Almaty with a popular recreation area at the top of Kök Töbe (, which means ' Green Hill '), a mountain just to the southeast.

The Green League (, Vihr.

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-democracy and sustainable development.

The Ecological Green Party of Mexico (, PVEM or PVE ) is one of the six political parties to have representation in the Mexican Congress.

The Ecologist Greens (, ) are a Greek Green ecologist political party.

The Ecological Forum, the body that lead to the establishment of the party, was founded after a proposal of the local group Ecological Movement of Thessaloniki (, Oikologiki Kinisi Thessalonikis ), and brought together the political party " Green Politics " (, Prasini Politiki ), the previous Greek member of the European Green Party, with other local ecological groups and independent ecologists.

Three small lakes, Blue Lake (, about 40 % overgrown ), Green Lake () and Tui Lake (, drinking water quality ) are located in the northern caldera of Raoul Island.

The Green Youth (, or GJ ) is the youth organization linked to Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen.

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 of Iran (, Hezb-e-sabz Hayeh Iran ) is an Iranian political party with members in Iran and in exile.

The Green Party of Bulgaria (, Zelena Partija ) is a political party in Bulgaria.

Verdi's name literally translates as " Joseph Green " in English ( although verdi is the plural form of " green ").

The Chinese name " Yalu " literally means " Duck Green ", but the characters were chosen to phonetically approximate the original Manchu word " Yalu ", which means " the boundary between two countries ".

Green Hill, on the A52, was literally a green hill.

" The color blue in Mongolian culture is associated with the sky, eternity and purity ; in Chinese, the name can be translated as Qīng Chéng (), literally, " Blue / Green City.

São Miguel Island (; named for the Archangel Michael or, literally, Portuguese for Saint Michael ), has been nicknamed " The Green Island ".

Luang Namtha ( Lao ຫລວງນ ໍ້ າທາ, literally " Royal Sugar Palm " or " Royal Green River ") is both a province of Laos and the name of the provincial capital, located in the north of the country.

The French Verts Monts is literally translated as Green Mountains.

In Vietnam, Yao people celebrate many exciting and meaningful festivals such as Nhơn chung lỉnh ( literally: Red rice, Green rice "), Nhiang chằm đao ( literally: Jumping Festival ).

Young stated that Green was " literally murdered by police " on national television less than 72 hours after the incident, before any investigation had been concluded.

In many Hessian families, Green Sauce is part of the traditional meal eaten on Maundy Thursday, relating to its German name Gründonnerstag ( literally Green Thursday ).

The Green Standard Army was extremely fragmented, with literally thousands of large and small outposts throughout the empire, many with as few as twelve men.

In Islamic traditions, Al-Khidir ( literally " the Green One ," an enigmatic figure in Islam ) is the maternal cousin of Alexander or Dhul-Qarnayn.

The name Greenodd is of Scandinavian origin, the odd meaning ness ( headland ) in this case ( the name translates literally as ' The Green Promontory ').

De L ' Église ( French ; literally translated, " of the Church ") is a station on the Green Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system operated by the Société de transport de Montréal ( STM ).

Via Verde ( literally " Green Lane ") is an electronic toll collection system used in Portugal since 1991.

Park Street Under is also the original name for the Red Line subway platform at Park Street, which is literally under the streetcar lines that became the Green Line.

Local citizens organized against this proposal, and groups such as WHOA ( We Hold Officials Accountable ), SACReD ( South Arundel Citizens for Responsible Development ), and the Anne Arundel Green Party literally stood in front of the bulldozers to stop the farm from being torn down.

In Saga of the Swamp Thing # 22 ( March 1984 ), the Floronic Man uses the Swamp Thing's body — now regressing to a plant-like state out of his inability to accept the new revelation about his origins, Woodrue literally eating parts of him — to contact the Green, which is composed of the life force of all plants on Earth.