The Greens (Luxembourg)

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The Greens Déi Gréng
Leader	Djuna Bernard Meris Šehović
Founded	23 June 1983
Headquarters	3, rue du Fossé L-1536 Luxembourg
Youth wing	Déi Jonk Gréng (Young Greens)
Ideology	Green politics[1][2] Pro-Europeanism[2]
Political position	Centre-left[2][3]
European affiliation	European Green Party
International affiliation	Global Greens
European Parliament group	Greens/EFA[2]
Colours	Green
Chamber of Deputies	9 / 60
European Parliament	1 / 6
Local Councils	77 / 600
Website
http://www.greng.lu
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The Greens (Luxembourgish: Déi Gréng, French: Les Verts, German: Die Grünen) is a green^[1] political party in Luxembourg.

Party history[]

1983–93[]

The Luxembourgish Greens were founded on 23 June 1983 as Green Alternative Party (GAP). Among its founding members were people engaged in the peace movement and the movement against a nuclear power plant in Luxembourg. Many came from left socialist groups that had split from the LSAP and from the former maoist movement who had already in 1979 been involved in the electoral . In the 1984 elections, the party got two seats in the Chamber of Deputies. In 1985, however the GAP split and its more conservative wing founded the (GLEI). They competed separately in the 1989 election, where they won two seats each.

1994–2003[]

In 1994, the two parties presented a common list for the elections. They won five seats in the Chamber, getting nearly 11% of the votes, which made them the fourth strongest force in parliament. In that year's European elections, which coincided with the national elections, the party won one of the six seats allotted to Luxembourg. In 1995, the two parties merged officially. That same year, the Greens' MEP, Jup Weber, left the party again, forming the Green and Liberal Alliance and joining the European Radical Alliance in the European Parliament.

In the 1999 elections, the party lost a considerable number of votes (falling to 9%), but retained its five seats in the Chamber and re-gained its single seat in the European Parliament.

2004-now[]

In 2004, the Greens regained the ground that they had lost in 1999 and won two additional seats in the Chamber. Although they got 15% of the votes in the coinciding European elections, placing them third, they couldn't add to their single seat.

In the June 2009 elections, the Luxembourg Green Party further increased their European score to 16,83% and sent its outgoing MEP Claude Turmes to Brussels and Strasbourg for a third mandate. In the coinciding national elections, they kept a status quo (+0,13%). Its 7 Members of Parliament (MP) all got reelected. However, its longest serving MP and founding member declared the following day, that he would retire from parliamentary politics in 2011 to the benefit of .

In the 2013 general election, the Greens stagnated at 10.1% and their number of seats dropped to 6. However, they became part of a three-party-coalition government with the liberal Democratic Party (DP) and the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) led by DP's Xavier Bettel. The Greens now have three ministers: Félix Braz, Minister for Justice, François Bausch, Minister for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure and Carole Dieschbourg, Minister for the Environment. It is the first time, that the Greens are part of a national government of Luxembourg.

Ideology and issues[]

The Greens are a typical green party. Sustainable development is one of their key issues. However, topics such as an ecological tax reform, renewable energy and energy efficiency or the consolidation of pension funds play an equally and ever increasingly important role. Especially in a country such as Luxembourg, pioneer of a new melting-pot society in Europe, equal participation of migrants is of utmost importance.

Furthermore, in its declaration of principles it has outlined, among others, the following priorities:^[4]

• Human rights and solidarity
• Democracy
• Social justice
• Structural change of the economy
• Equality between men and women
• A commitment to a green and social Europe.

Electoral results[]

Chamber of Deputies[]

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Government
1984	169,862	4.2 (#4)	2 / 64	0	Opposition
1989	275,756	8.6 (#5)	4 / 60	2	Opposition
1994	303,991	9.9 (#4)	5 / 60	1	Opposition
1999	266,644	9.1 (#5)	5 / 60	0	Opposition
2004	355,895	11.6 (#4)	7 / 60	2	Opposition
2009	347,388	11.7 (#4)	7 / 60	0	Opposition
2013	331,920	10.1 (#4)	6 / 60	1	Coalition
2018	533,893	15.1 (#4)	9 / 60	3	Coalition

European Parliament[]

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1984	60,152	6.1 (#4)	0 / 6
1989	42,926	4.3 (#6)	0 / 6
1994	110,888	10.9 (#4)	1 / 6	1
1999	108,514	10.7 (#4)	1 / 6
2004	163,754	15.0 (#3)	1 / 6
2009	189,523	16.8 (#4)	1 / 6
2014	176,073	15.0 (#2)	1 / 6
2019	237,215	18.9 (#3)	1 / 6

Organisation[]

Organisational structure[]

The Congress is the highest organ of the party. It sets out the party's strategy and political course and is open to all members of the party. Every two years, the congress elects the leadership of the party's organisation: two presidents, an executive committee, the party board in which the party's youth wing and the gender council are also represented, an executive council that represents the congress, the treasurer and a financial control board.

International organisations[]

The Greens are member of the European Green Party and the Global Greens.

See also[]

• Green party
• Green politics
• List of environmental organizations
• List of political parties in Luxembourg

Notes[]

External links[]

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• Official website