Pacitalian Green Party

Pacitalian Green Party
Leader	Rosa Bardolin
Chairperson	Neros Constantakis
Founded	March 21, 1991 (1991-03-21)
Headquarters	Corso Metricale 1143/51, Timiocato 5715AD
Youth wing	Green Youth
Women's wing	Greens for Women
Ideology	Green politics, liberalism, direct democracy
Political position	Centre
International affiliation	Greens Worldwide
Colours	Green
Senato	0 / 100
Constazione	3 / 715
Website
www.pvp.org.pc
Political parties

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.

The Greens are currently in the process of formally merging with the Federation of Progressive Democrats to create a new political party, Progressive Democrats and Greens. The party's membership voted 63 percent in favour of the merger in August 2024. The two parties remain legally separate for the 2024 regional elections, as Elections Pacitalia did not formally approve the merger before the regional election campaign began. However, the parties formed an electoral alliance instead to contest the election – essentially a de-facto merger — with plans to formalize the merger sometime in 2025.

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	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
2023	Rosa Bardolin	9,470,161	2.8%	2,266,075	0.7%	0 / 270	1	3 / 445	11	3 / 715	12	12th	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	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	n/a	Not seated
2023	Rosa Bardolin	4,359,032	1.3%	0 / 100	0	n/a	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%	2nd	137,446,008	52.6%	1st	Elected
2016†	Neros Constantakis	17,935,946	6.6%	5th				Eliminated in first round
2017†	Maribel Merevaldi	1,417,859	0.5%	5th				Eliminated in first round
2023	Madonna Ferrache	4,328,057	1.5%	6th				Eliminated in first round

† 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.