Ecolo

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Ecolo
Leader	Rajae Maouane and  [fr]
Founded	1980
Headquarters	Espace Kegeljan Av. de Marlagne 52, Namur
Ideology	Green politics[1][2]
Political position	Centre-left[3] to left-wing[4]
European affiliation	European Green Party
International affiliation	Global Greens
European Parliament group	The Greens–European Free Alliance
Flemish counterpart	Groen
Colours	Green
Chamber of Representatives (French-speaking seats)	13 / 61
Senate (French-speaking seats)	5 / 24
Parliament of Wallonia	12 / 75
Parliament of the French Community	16 / 94
Brussels Parliament (French-speaking seats)	15 / 72
Parliament of the German-speaking Community	3 / 25
European Parliament (French-speaking seats)	2 / 8
Website
www.ecolo.be
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Ecolo, officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales, (English: Confederate ecologists for the organization of original struggles) is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics.^[1][2] The party is active in Wallonia, the Brussels-Capital Region, and the German-speaking Community of Belgium.

Ecolo's Flemish equivalent is Groen; the two parties maintain close relations with each other.

Name[]

Ecolo is officially a backronym for Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales "Confederated Ecologists for the Organisation of Original Struggles", but is really just short for écologistes, French for environmentalists.

History[]

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Ecolo was part of the 1999 Verhofstadt I Government, but withdrew from the coalition before the 2003 general election, which saw it lose nearly two thirds of its 14 federal parliamentary seats in the face of a resurgent Socialist Party. The party made quite a comeback, however, in the 2007 general election, though failing to match the peak popularity it had enjoyed in 1999. In the general election of 10 June 2007, the party won eight out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and two out of the 40 directly elected seats in the Senate.

In the 2010 elections the party again won eight seats in the Chamber of Representatives and two in the Senate.^[5]

Electoral results[]

Chamber of Representatives[]

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Government
1977[6]	3,834	0.1	0 / 212	0	Extra-parliamentary
1978[7]	21,224	0.4	0 / 212	0	Extra-parliamentary
1981[8]	132,312	2.2	2 / 212	2	Opposition
1985[9]	152,483	2.5	5 / 212	3	Opposition
1987[10]	157,988	2.6	3 / 212	2	Opposition
1991[11]	312,624	5.1	10 / 212	7	Opposition
1995[12]	243,362	4.0	6 / 150	4	Opposition
1999[13]	457,281	7.4	11 / 150	5	Coalition
2003[14]	201,118	3.1	4 / 150	7	Opposition
2007[15]	340,378	5.1	8 / 150	4	Opposition
2010[16]	313,047	4.8	8 / 150	0	Opposition
2014[17]	222,524	3.3	6 / 150	2	Opposition
2019[18]	416,452	6.1	13 / 150	7	External support (2020)
					Coalition (2020-)

Senate[]

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
1977[19]	7,558	0.1	0 / 106
1978[20]	43,883	0.8	0 / 106
1981[21]	153,989	2.6	3 / 106	3
1985[22]	163,361	2.7	2 / 106	1
1987[23]	168,491	2.8	2 / 106
1991[24]	323,683	5.3	6 / 106	4
1995[25]	258,635	4.3	2 / 40	4
1999[26]	458,658	7.4	3 / 40	1
2003[27]	208,868	3.2	1 / 40	2
2007	385,466	5.8	2 / 40	1
2010	353,111	5.5	2 / 40	0

Regional[]

Brussels Parliament[]

Election	Votes	%		Seats	+/-	Government
		F.E.C.	Overall
1989	44,874		10.2 (#5)	8 / 75		Opposition
1995	37,308		9.0 (#4)	7 / 75	1	Opposition
1999	77,969	21.3 (#2)	18.3 (#2)	14 / 75	7	Opposition
2004	37,908	9.7 (#4)	8.3 (#4)	7 / 89	1	Coalition
2009	82,663	20.2 (#3)	17.9 (#3)	16 / 89	9	Coalition
2014	41,368	10.1 (#5)	8.9 (#5)	8 / 89	8	Opposition
2019	74,246	19.1 (#2)	16.2 (#2)	15 / 89	7	Coalition

German-speaking Community Parliament[]

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Government
1990	5,897	15.0 (#5)	4 / 25		Opposition
1995	5,128	13.9 (#4)	3 / 25	1	Opposition
1999	4,694	12.7 (#5)	3 / 25	0	Coalition
2004	2,972	8.2 (#5)	2 / 25	1	Opposition
2009	4,310	11.5 (#5)	3 / 25	1	Opposition
2014	3,591	9.5 (#6)	2 / 25	1	Opposition
2019	4,902	12.5 (#5)	3 / 25	1	Opposition

Walloon Parliament[]

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Government
1995	196,988	10.4 (#4)	8 / 75		Opposition
1999	347,225	18.2 (#3)	14 / 75	6	Coalition
2004	167,916	8.5 (#4)	3 / 75	11	Opposition
2009	372,067	18.5 (#3)	14 / 75	11	Coalition
2014	141,813	8.6 (#4)	4 / 75	10	Opposition
2019	294,631	14.5 (#3)	12 / 75	8	Coalition

European Parliament[]

Election	Votes		%			Seats	+/-
	F.E.C.	G.E.C.	F.E.C.	G.E.C.	Overall
1979	107,833		5.1 (#5)			0 / 24
1984	220,663		9.9 (#4)			1 / 24	1
1989	371,053		16.6 (#4)			2 / 24	1
1994	290,859	5,714	13.0 (#4)	14.9 (#4)		1 / 25	1
1999	525,316	6,276	22.7 (#3)	17.0 (#3)	8.4	3 / 25	2
2004	239,687	3,880	9.8 (#4)	10.5 (#4)	3.7	1 / 24	2
2009	562,081	6,025	22.9 (#3)	15.6 (#3)	8.6	2 / 22	1
2014	285,196	6,429	11.7 (#3)	16.7 (#2)	4.3	1 / 21	1
2019	485,655	6,675	19.9 (#2)	16.4 (#2)	7.2	2 / 21	1

Elected politicians[]

Current[]

European Parliament

• Philippe Lamberts

Chamber of Representatives

• 2010 – 2014:

2. Juliette Boulet
3. (resigned in 2012; replaced by )

Brussels-Capital Region Parlement

• 2009 – 2014:

7. Zakia Khattabi

Past[]

Chamber of Representatives

• 1995 – 1999:

4. (20 April 1999) (replaced )

• 1999 – 2003:

4. → (14 July 1999)
5. → (23 July 1999)
10. → (1 September 2002)
11. → (10 January 2001)

• 2003–2007:

1. (replaced )
3. (replaced )

• 2007–2010:

1. Juliette Boulet
4. Georges Gilkinet
5. Philippe Henry

Brussels-Capital Region Parlement

• 2004–2009:

5. Josy Dubié

Important figures[]

• José Daras
• Josy Dubié
• Isabelle Durant
• ^{[citation needed]}
• ^{[citation needed]}
• Jacky Morael
• Patrick Dupriez^{[citation needed]}
• Zakia Khattabi
•  [fr]^{[citation needed]}

See also[]

• Green party
• Green politics
• List of environmental organizations

References[]