Pacitalian Green Party
Pacitalian Green Party | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Leader | Rosa Bardolin |
| Chairperson | Neros Constantakis |
| Founded | March 21, 1991 |
| Headquarters | Corso Metricale 1143/51, Timiocato, Capitale 5715AD |
| Youth wing | Green Youth |
| Women's wing | Greens for Women |
| Ideology | Green politics, liberalism, direct democracy |
| Political position | Centre |
| Colours | Green |
| Senato | 0 / 100
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| Constazione | 15 / 715
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| 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 | November 27, 2020 | ||
| Neros Constantakis | November 27, 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
| 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
|
 37
|
3rd
|
Opposition |
| 2009 | Gabrielo Brunate | 94,220,200 | 32.9% | 83,996,329 | 29.1% | 83 / 270
|
81
|
134 / 445
|
77
|
217 / 715
|
158
|
1st
|
Coalition government with PSC and DNP |
| 2011 | Gabrielo Brunate | 94,673,732 | 36.5% | 74,268,255 | 28.1% | 77 / 270
|
 6
|
125 / 445
|
9
|
202 / 715
|
15
|
2nd
|
Opposition |
| 2014 | Massimo Semarche | 51,922,376 | 18.6% | 56,343,311 | 19.4% | 19 / 270
|
58
|
86 / 445
|
39
|
105 / 715
|
97
|
3rd
|
Opposition |
| 2017 | Gabrielo Brunate | 40,196,456 | 11.8% | 46,623,774 | 14.3% | 22 / 270
|
3
|
64 / 445
|
22
|
86 / 715
|
19
|
4th
|
Opposition |
| 2020 | Federica Lanzo | 15,251,153 | 4.7% | 10,405,454 | 3.2% | 1 / 270
|
21
|
14 / 445
|
50
|
15 / 715
|
71
|
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.
| Election | Leader | Votes | Seats | Position | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Share | No. | Share | ||||
| 2007 | Neros Constantakis | 30,592,603 | 11.7% | 10 / 96
|
4c
|
 3rd
|
Minority (opposition) |
| 2009 | Gabrielo Brunate | 93,031,388 | 32.5% | 25 / 96
|
15
|
1st
|
Majority (governing) |
| 2011 | Gabrielo Brunate | 90,297,115 | 35.0% | 30 / 96
|
30
|
2nd
|
Minority (opposition) |
| 2014 | Massimo Semarche | 49,829,664 | 17.8% | 13 / 96
|
17
|
3rd
|
Minority (opposition) |
| 2017 | Gabrielo Brunate | 27,673,759 | 8.9% | 9 / 96
|
4
|
4th
|
Minority (opposition) |
| 2020 | Federica Lanzo | 15,334,125 | 4.7% | 0 / 100
|
10d
|
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.
| Election | Candidate | Party | First-round votes | Runoff election | Result | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Share | Position | No. | Share | Position | ||||
| 2007 | No candidate (endorsed PSC's Diego Zuna) | ||||||||
| 2010 | Franchessa Marconi | PVP | 79,589,897 | 27.7% | 2nd
|
137,446,008 | 52.6% | 1st
|
Elected |
| 2016† | Neros Constantakis | PVP | 17,935,946 | 6.6% | 5th
|
Eliminated in first round | |||
| 2017† | Maribel Merevaldi | PVP | 1,417,859 | 0.5% | 5th
|
Eliminated in first round | |||
| 2023 | 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.