Green Party (Gylias)
Green Party | |
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| Founded | 1972 |
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| Colours | Green |
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| http://www.gpv.gls/ | |
The Green Party (French reformed: Parti vert), abbreviated GP (PV) or Greens (Les verts), is a Gylian political party, part of the Non-inscrits bloc.
Established in 1972, it was the first green party in Tyran, and is the primary political vehicle for the Gylian environmental movement.
History
The Green Party was founded in 1972, as a political outgrowth of Gylias' growing environmental movement. It united several political tendencies into its formation, including elements of the Free Land Party, Urban Movement, Renewal and Justice Union, and LSD Party.
After building up significant public support and good results in municipal and regional elections, it entered Parliament in the 1976 federal election, becoming the second-largest non-inscrit party. Its explicitly environmental basis and rapid ascent were influential on Tyranian environmental movements, inspiring the creation of green parties in many other countries. In the late 1970s, it gained a sister party, the Animal Protection Party. Its success would later inspire several "backlash" parties such as the Automobile Freedom Party, Coastal Rally for Fishing Preservation, and Party of Consumers for Freedom.
During the wretched decade, it was an ardent opponent of the Aén Ďanez government, particularly of its desire to increase Gylias' heavy industry. It became part of the non-inscrit left bloc, and for much of this time had a reputation as uncompromising firebrands. It supported the Filomena Pinheiro government.
The party benefited from the non-inscrits' breakthrough in the 1990s, and gradually lost its uncompromising reputation. It gave outside support to the Mathilde Vieira government, particularly for its green economy reforms and Aishwarya Devi's policy of reducing consumption for sustainability purposes, and had a cabinet minister without formally being part of the coalition.
Ideology
The GP is based on the principles of green politics, namely environmentalism, social justice, direct democracy, and nonviolence.
Its central issue is environmental protection. It supports sustainable development, a circular economy, non-polluting public transport, expanding recycling facilities, minimising waste, reforming agriculture to make it wholly organic, and comprehensive global action to combat climate change. It is opposed to nuclear power, advocating that it be phased out and replaced with other forms of renewable energy.
Outside of the environment, the GP is a firmly left-wing party on economic and social issues. It supports feminism and gender diversity, regulated drug distribution and sex work, direct democracy, participatory planning and budgeting, public secularism, and robust social security.
While its best relations are with fellow left-wing parties, it has been open to occasionally working with green conservatives such as Margaret Roberts.
Symbols
The GP uses green as its official colour, and the sunflower as its official symbol.
Popular support
The GP enjoys especially strong support among young voters, students, public sector employees, and in coastal areas and areas that border protected areas. During the 1980s–1990s, it made a strong push to win support among workers by advocating a just transition, particularly among industrial workers and fishers whose profession was abolished by the Mathilde Vieira government and replaced by aquaculture.
