Since its foundation in 1980 and merger with Alliance 90 after the German reunification, Kelly's party, now named Alliance ' 90 / The Greens, has become one of Europe's most important Green parties.

She was the oldest surviving child of Sir Thomas Parr, Lord of the Manor of Kendal in Westmorland ( now Cumbria ), descendant of King Edward III, and the former Maud Green, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Green, Lord of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire.

Greens are now most likely to be found in the older villages of mainland Europe, the United Kingdom, and areas of New England and Ohio in the United States.

By this time, the Blues ( Vénetoi ) and the Greens ( Prásinoi ) had come to overshadow the other two factions of the Whites ( Leukoí ) and Reds ( Roúsioi ), while still maintaining the paired alliances, although these were now fixed as Blue and White vs. Green and Red.

The Blues and the Greens were now more than simply sports teams.

A key organizer ( and one of the candidates ) was Elizabeth May, who is now leader of the Greens.

These colours were the marks of the old chariot-racing factions, the four now merged to just the Blues and the Greens, and incorporated into the official hierarchy.

While the moratorium on genetic modification has now expired, the Greens remain heavily involved in attempts to prevent any GM releases under the new regulatory framework, and genetic engineering remains a major topic for the party.

The PCP, now in the Unitarian Democratic Coalition ( Portuguese: Coligação Democrática Unitária or CDU ) with the Ecologist Party " The Greens " ( Portuguese: Partido Ecologista " Os Verdes " or PEV ) and the Democratic Intervention ( Portuguese: Intervenção Democrática or ID ), saw an electoral decline to 12. 18 % and 31 seats.

The Greens, who were now distanced from Labour over the genetic engineering controversy, gained nine seats ( an increase of two ).

For the 1986 national elections the party used now the name " The Greens " which was abandoned.

The 2004 GLA elections saw the Greens lose the seat held by Lynch, leaving Jones and Johnson as the two remaining members of the Green Group, of which she is now the Convenor.

The protests included the United Tasmania Group who were the precursor to the Tasmanian Greens and are now recognised as the world's first green party.

In 2011, Labor MP David Llewellyn confirmed to ABC Radio that the two major parties had " conspired " to reduce the number of seats in the House specifically to increase the quota for minor parties such as the Greens: " I could admit now that being part of the government back in 1998 or 1997 in conspiring, suppose that's not the best of words but that's what it was, between the Liberal Party and the Labor Party to reduce the size of Parliament on the basis that it would take more percentage for minor parties to actually win a seat.

There are now other estates in the area, such as Golden Grove estate, Camden Greens Estate, Berwick Springs and Silverleaf.

The area now has a mixed political profile, with the Labour Party, SNP, Greens and Liberal Democrats each gaining one councillor for the Hillhead ward on the City of Glasgow Council in 2007.

It now consists of the People's Party, Union of Greens and Farmers, the Latvia First / Latvian Way Party, and For Fatherland and Freedom / LNNK.

The suburb is fairly typical of an inner-city suburb of Melbourne in that it is historically a safe ALP seat, but now with Greens majority as the ALP's base has been eroded.

The SA Greens now have two MLCs and two Senators, with state and federal Newspoll showing the Green vote consistently above 10 percent.

The Greens were successful in electing upper house candidate Tammy Jennings ( now Tammy Franks ), joining current Greens MLC Mark Parnell who will be up for election in 2014.

These colours were the marks of the old chariot racing factions, the four now merged to just the Blues and the Greens, and incorporated into the official hierarchy.

In this decade the populations near Pasto, began to assemble their own carnivals, some ephemeral as Greens ' Carnival in the city of Ipiales ( now Carnival of the Frontier ) and other more durable as the Reds's Carnival in the city of Buesaco.

The Greens benefited from increased inroads among traditionally left-wing demographics which had benefited from Green-initiated legislation in the 1998-2002 term, such as environmentalists ( Renewable Energies Act ) and LGBT groups ( Registered Partnership Law ).

Perhaps most important for determining the success of both the Greens and the SPD was the increasing threat of war in Iraq, which was highly unpopular with the German public, and helped gather votes for the parties which had taken a stand against participation in this war.

MK had an electoral partnership with the Greens in the 2005 Westminster elections.

Prior to its affiliation with The Greens – European Free Alliance, the SNP had previously been allied with the European Progressive Democrats ( until 1984 ), Rainbow Group ( 1989 – 1994 ) and European Radical Alliance ( 1994 – 1999 ).

Twenty-three states had Greens elected at the municipal level, representing every region of the country except for East South Central.

However, by November 2009, both the Greens and Socialists had abandoned the alliance.

Alain Lipietz was first selected to represent the Greens in the 2002 presidential elections but his public outings proved awkward and he was soon replaced by Noël Mamère who had initially lost the primary elections.

Support for STV and recognition that it was a proportional voting system was substantial enough among BC Greens that Carr was forced to change her position to one that had her declare that although she opposed STV personally, Greens would be free to vote however they chose.

An example of how adamantly opposed Carr was to any proportional voting system other than the one she had been promoting was shown when a former Speaker of the BC Greens from 1990, David Lewis, arrived at the AGM only to find his name had been removed from the membership list.

But by then it had become clear to many in other parties that given historical voting patterns in the province, BC-STV would tend to produce perpetual coalition government with Greens holding the balance of power.

The article asserted that the Greens had managed to " force " the Government to divert money from flood relief, in order to fund various Green programs.

In the local election of 2000 the Greens had 7. 7 % of the vote.

Polls by a number of national newspapers had predicted that the party could win around 2-3 seats, putting Greens in the Knesset for the first time.

Much to the consternation of neighbors, those living in the Green's homes included former drug addicts, the homeless and prostitutes, who had been referred to the Greens by other ministries and shelters.

Although Campbell attempted to keep the Greens in the fold, a new provincial leadership had taken control and pulled the party out of its municipal coalitions.

In 531 some members of the Blues and Greens had been arrested for murder in connection with deaths that occurred during rioting after a recent chariot race.

However the three members of the 1999-2002 coalition ( Labour, Greens, Alliance ) all had decriminalisation in their manifestos.

In 1994 he was elected to the European parliament, though he had been placed only eighth on the electoral list because of his support of military intervention in Bosnia, as German Greens at the time did not support the resumption of German military intervention abroad.

The Greens have always had leftist and centrist factions that have been ascendant at different times in the party's history.

The Greens were attacked on two fronts: some, including their coalition partners, accused them of being too fundamentalist, while others said that they had betrayed their ideals.

They have had a long-standing friendship with the Blues, and generally oppose the Reds, though in recent events Greens sided with the Reds in many issues before the White Tower split.