Pacitalian Green Party

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Pacitalian Green Party
LeaderRosa Bardolin
ChairpersonNeros Constantakis
FoundedMarch 21, 1991 (1991-03-21)
HeadquartersCorso Metricale 1143/51, Timiocato 5715AD
Youth wingGreen Youth
Women's wingGreens for Women
IdeologyGreen politics, liberalism, direct democracy
Political positionCentre
International affiliationGreens Worldwide
Colours  Green
Senato
0 / 100
Constazione
3 / 715
Website
www.pvp.org.pc

The Pacitalian Green Party (Greens, Pacitalian: Partito Verdare Pacitaliana, PVP) is a Green political party in Pacitalia. The party has historically been the largest environmentalist party at the national level and sits at the centre of the political spectrum. It campaigns everywhere except in Empordia, where there is a regional Green party with which the national organization has a non-compete agreement.

Formed in the early 1990s, the Greens did not break through into the political mainstream until the early 2000s. They became the third-largest party after the 2007 national election, earning over 30 million votes, capturing 59 seats in the Constazione Repubblicana, and electing 10 senators.

The party last governed at the national level between 2009 and 2011, as the major party in a coalition with the Pacitalian Social Democratic Congress (which was then two separate parties). After winning the largest share of seats in the 2009 national elections, charismatic leader Gabrielo Brunate swept to power, and relied on a centre-left majority to govern for two years. He was unable to retain power after the 2011 elections, with Archetenia Nera and the FPD retaking office.

Following their defeat, the party began to shed support to rivals, who had begun to centre environmental issues in their respective platforms. The party remained the third-largest bloc after the 2014 election. However, after Brunate's return to the leadership, and a poor result in the 2017 election, it then suffered the defection of several newly-elected Members of the Republican Parliament to the Democratic Nationalist Party, some of whom went onto become part of the Moya government's executive council.

The party was further diminished at the 2020 election, where it was completely wiped out of the Senato and reduced to just 15 seats in the Constazione. The Greens were subsequently forced into administration by Pacibank after the party was unable to raise enough money from supporters to continue to make the minimum payments on the line of credit that it had drawn down to fund the campaign.

However, the party has had a resurgence recently under the leadership of Rosa Bardolin, who took over in 2021. Bardolin, an environmental scientist, attained a national profile prior to entering politics for her series of viral social media videos where she talked in plain language about the negative social and economic effects of climate change on communities and future generations.

The Green Party is currently the fifth-largest party by membership, and fourth-largest by fundraising income, as of 2023. It currently does not hold a majority of seats, or control, any of Pacitalia's regional councils. It held the archonacy between 2010 and 2017 under Franchessa Marconi.

Ideology

Ideologically, the Green Party advocates or has advocated for, among others:

  • creating an ecologically sustainable, just, and non-violent society;
  • disavowing war, imperialism and neocolonialism;
  • increasing direct public participation in democracy;
  • reducing overall consumption and eliminating excess;
  • supporting Pacitalian global leadership in environmental technology;
  • transitioning the Pacitalian economy to renewable energy;
  • aggressively fighting climate change

As a centrist party whose primary policy goals are related to environmental responsibility, the Greens draw support from both the centre-left and centre-right. Under Gabrielo Brunate, the party leaned slightly right, courting business and private sector support in an attempt to peel away soft FPD voters and other moderates.

Its voting base tends to skew towards younger voters, urban voters in large cities, and current university students or recent graduates. The party is most popular in major cities and, historically, has drawn consistent, strong support in Capitale, Franconia and Sambuca.

History

Notable policy achievements

  • Environmental Protection Act (2009) – among other measures, the new law fined corporations half their net annual profits if caught illegally dumping or polluting
  • Creation of a personal consumption tax (2010)
  • Public Transit For Everyone Act (2010) – made public transit free for seniors, people with disabilities, and children under 12. The program was cancelled by the FPD government in 2012, then reinstated by the PSDC government in 2019.
  • One Year, One Billion initiative (2011) – Brunate government planted one billion trees in a 12-month period

Party leaders

Name(s) Served from Served until Notes
Lamberto Copernico Cornelia Sellatta March 21, 1991 September 30, 1996 Inaugural co-leaders
Paola Fabbruzza September 30, 1996 May 15, 1998  
Neros Constantakis May 15, 1998 January 16, 1999  
Neros Constantakis January 16, 1999a February 29, 2008  
Gabrielo Brunate March 1, 2008 March 21, 2012 Prime Minister (2009-2011)
Massimo Semarche March 21, 2012 September 4, 2015  
Gabrielo Brunate September 4, 2015 April 3, 2019  
Federica Lanzo April 3, 2019 December 4, 2020  
Neros Constantakis December 4, 2020 March 5, 2021 Party leader ad interim
Rosa Bardolin March 5, 2021 Incumbent

a Co-leadership model was abandoned at the 1998 party convention and applied to the next leadership election. Constantakis ran for the leadership and was elected as sole leader in 1999.

Electoral performance

Constazione Repubblicana
Election Leader Electorate votes Party list votes Electorate seats Party list seats Total seats Position Result
No. Share No. Share No. ± No. ± No. ±
2007 Neros Constantakis 31,068,647 11.4% 34,495,673 12.7%
2 / 270
N/Ab
57 / 445
N/Ab
59 / 715
Increase 37 Increase 3rd Opposition
2009 Gabrielo Brunate 94,220,200 32.9% 83,996,329 29.1%
83 / 270
Increase 81
134 / 445
Increase 77
217 / 715
Increase 158 Increase 1st Coalition government with PSC and DNP
2011 Gabrielo Brunate 94,673,732 36.5% 74,268,255 28.1%
77 / 270
Decrease 6
125 / 445
Decrease 9
202 / 715
Decrease 15 Decrease 2nd Opposition
2014 Massimo Semarche 51,922,376 18.6% 56,343,311 19.4%
19 / 270
Decrease 58
86 / 445
Decrease 39
105 / 715
Decrease 97 Decrease 3rd Opposition
2017 Gabrielo Brunate 40,196,456 11.8% 46,623,774 14.3%
22 / 270
Increase 3
64 / 445
Decrease 22
86 / 715
Decrease 19 Decrease 4th Opposition
2020 Federica Lanzo 15,251,153 4.7% 10,405,454 3.2%
1 / 270
Decrease 21
14 / 445
Decrease 50
15 / 715
Decrease 71 Decrease 5th Opposition

b First election contested under the new proportional electoral system of the Second Republic. The previous election was a form of first-past-the-post (single-member plurality) voting and did not have "electorate" and "party list" totals; therefore, the only appropriate seat comparison to the prior election is an overall count.

Senato Repubblicana
Election Leader Votes Seats Position Result
No. Share No. Share
2007 Neros Constantakis 30,592,603 11.7%
10 / 96
Increase 4c Steady 3rd Minority (opposition)
2009 Gabrielo Brunate 93,031,388 32.5%
25 / 96
Increase 15 Increase 1st Majority (governing)
2011 Gabrielo Brunate 90,297,115 35.0%
30 / 96
Increase 30 Decrease 2nd Minority (opposition)
2014 Massimo Semarche 49,829,664 17.8%
13 / 96
Decrease 17 Decrease 3rd Minority (opposition)
2017 Gabrielo Brunate 27,673,759 8.9%
9 / 96
Decrease 4 Decrease 4th Minority (opposition)
2020 Federica Lanzo 15,334,125 4.7%
0 / 100
Decrease 10d Decrease 5th Not seated

c As part of the political reforms of the Second Republic, the size of Pacitalia's upper house was decreased from 100 seats to 96. The Greens held six seats in the Senate before the 2007 election, resulting in a net increase of four seats, adjusted for the seat reduction.
d The size of the Senate was reverted to 100 seats for the 2020 election. The Greens' comparable net seat decrease in a 100-seat chamber was ten.

Archonate of the Pacitalian Republic
Election Candidate First-round votes Runoff election Result
No. Share Position No. Share Position
2007 No candidate (endorsed PSC's Diego Zuna)  
2010 Franchessa Marconi 79,589,897 27.7% Steady 2nd 137,446,008 52.6% Increase 1st Elected
2016 Neros Constantakis 17,935,946 6.6% Decrease 5th   Eliminated in first round
2017 Maribel Merevaldi 1,417,859 0.5% Steady 5th   Eliminated in first round
2023 Madonna Ferrache TBD Election to be held in November 2023

† Election result was annulled due to the narrow margin of just 754 votes between the final two candidates, out of nearly 250 million valid votes cast. Voting irregularities and missing postal ballots that may have altered the final result were also noted during the tabulation process. The National Superior Court invalidated the election results as a precaution and officials re-ran the election in 2017.