Editing Green party (section)

====Since the 1990s ====
[[File:Flickr - Saeima - 9.Saeimas deputāts Indulis Emsis.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.70|[[Indulis Emsis]] of the [[Latvian Green Party]] became [[Prime Minister of Latvia]] in 2004, and the world's first green [[head of government]].]]
After years of co-operation between the national Green parties, they formed a pan-European alliance that unites most European Green parties. The Greens are a party within the European parliament with 46 seats, as of June 2009. It has a long-standing alliance with the [[European Free Alliance]] (EFA), an alliance of "stateless nations", such as the Welsh nationalist [[Plaid Cymru]] and [[Scottish National Party]]. Together European Green Party/EFA have 58 seats and they are the fourth largest party in the European Parliament.

While on many issues European Greens practice the same policies, one issue divides European Green parties: the European Union. Some Green parties, like the Dutch [[GreenLeft]], [[Green Party of England and Wales|the Green Party of England and Wales]], the [[Green Party of Switzerland|Swiss Green Party]], the [[Green Party (Ireland)|Irish Green Party]] and the German [[Alliance '90/The Greens]], are [[pro-European]] while some, like the Green party in [[Green Party (Sweden)|Sweden]], are moderately [[eurosceptic]].

Some Green parties have been part of governing coalitions. The first one was the Finnish [[Green League]] that entered government in 1995. The Italian [[Federation of the Greens]], the [[The Greens (France)|French Greens]], the German Alliance '90/The Greens and both Belgian Green parties, the French-speaking [[Ecolo]] and the Dutch-speaking [[Agalev]] were part of government during the late 1990s. Most successful was the [[Latvian Green Party]], who supplied the [[Prime Minister of Latvia]] in 2004. The Swedish [[Green Party (Sweden)|Green Party]] was a long-term supporter of the social-democratic minority government until the election 2006 when the social-democratic party lost. The Irish [[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]] is currently [[Government of the 33rd Dáil|in government]], having entered a coalition with [[Fianna Fáil]] and [[Fine Gael]] in June 2020, with three cabinet positions. It was previously in a [[Government of the 30th Dáil|coalition government]] with Fianna Fáil from [[2007 Irish general election|2007]] until January 2011 when the party withdrew their support for the ruling coalition.

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In Scandinavia, left-wing socialist parties have formed the [[Nordic Green Left Alliance]]. These parties have the same ideals as European Greens. However, they do not cooperate with the [[Global Greens]] or European Greens, but instead form a combined parliamentary group with the [[Party of the European Left]], which unites communists and post-communists. There is one exception, in 2004 the MEP for Danish [[Socialist People's Party (Denmark)|Socialist People's Party]] has left the Nordic Green Left parliamentary group and has joined the Green parliamentary group in the European parliament. The Socialist People's Party is currently an observer at the [[European Green Party]] and the Global Greens. Outside of Scandinavia, in 2004, [[Latvia]] became the first country in the world to have a Green politician become Head of Government, but in 2006 the Green Party received only 16.71 percent of the vote. In the [[Estonia]] [[2007 Estonian parliamentary election|2007 parliamentary elections]], the [[Estonian Greens]] won 7.1 percent of the vote, and a mandate for six seats in the country's parliament, the [[Riigikogu]]. Other significant electoral results for European green parties include Germany's [[Alliance '90/The Greens]] in the [[2002 German federal election|2002 federal election]] and France's [[Europe Ecology – The Greens]] in the [[2012 French legislative election|2012 legislative election]], in which they both won more seats than any other [[Third party (politics)|third party]].
[[File:Caroline Lucas 2010.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.7|British MP [[Caroline Lucas]] was the UK's first green politician elected under the [[first-past-the-post]] system.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7693262/General-Election-2010-first-Green-MP-hails-victory-for-the-politics-of-hope.html|title=General Election 2010: first Green MP edges out Labour|date=7 May 2010|access-date=6 December 2016|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|last=Gray|first=Louise}}</ref>]] 
In some countries Greens have found it difficult to win any representation in the national parliament. Three reasons can be found for this. It includes countries with a first past the post electoral system, such as the United Kingdom. However, despite the [[first past the post]] system in the United Kingdom, the [[Green Party of England and Wales]] won their first seat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] when [[Caroline Lucas]] won the seat of [[Brighton Pavilion (UK Parliament constituency)|Brighton Pavilion]] in 2010. In July 2024, after a targeted campaign, 4 Green MPs were elected in Bristol Central, Waveney Valley, North Herefordshire and Brighton Pavilion. The [[Scottish Greens]] have had success in the devolved [[Scottish Parliament]] having recently signed a deal to enter a governing coalition, whilst the [[Green Party Northern Ireland]] has had success in the devolved [[Northern Ireland Assembly]] and [[local elections]] where the first-past-the-post system is not used. In countries where a party with similar ideals is stronger, such as [[Green Party (Norway)|Norway]] and Denmark, Green parties tend to perform worse. In some [[Eastern European]] countries, like [[Ecologist Party of Romania|Romania]], Green parties are still in the process of formation and have therefore not gained enough support. In [[The Greens (Poland)|Poland]] the Green Party, registered in 2004, won their first three seats in the Sejm in 2019. The [[Green Party of Bulgaria]] was founded in Sofia in 1989 by [[Aleksandar Karakachanov]]. Green Movement (ZD) was a member of an anti-corruption coalition - [[Democratic Bulgaria|Democratic Bulgaria (DB)]]. [[Ecoglasnost]] is a member of the [[BSP for Bulgaria]] coalition. For the elections in 2022, the Party of the Greens (Партия на зелените, ПнЗ, PnZ) joined<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cik |first=Central Electoral Commission |title=РЕШЕНИЕ № 1309-НС София, 17 август 2022 г. |url=https://www.cik.bg/bg/decisions/1309/2022-08-17 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302101023/https://www.cik.bg/bg/decisions/1309/2022-08-17 |archive-date=2023-03-02 |website=cik.bg}}</ref> the [[Bulgarian Rise]] coalition.

The [[European Green Party]] has worked to support weak Green parties in European countries. Until recently, they were giving support to Green parties in the Mediterranean countries. These Green parties are now making electoral gains, e.g. in Spain, [[Ecologists Greens|Greece]] and [[Ecological and Environmental Movement|Republic of Cyprus]], or getting organized to do so, e.g. in [[Democratic Alternative (Malta)|Malta]]. Therefore, the EGP is now turning its attention to Eastern Europe – all these countries have Green parties, but in materially poor Eastern Europe the success of Green Parties is patchy except for Hungary, where the local Green party, [[Politics Can Be Different]] (LMP), has been elected to parliament and many city councils.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://greenparty.org.uk/international/international/81/gewd.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030110112650/http://www.greenparty.org.uk/international/international/81/gewd.htm|url-status=dead|title=Text about the Green East-West Dialogue|archive-date=January 10, 2003}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.europeangreens.org/peopleandparties/networks/gewd.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030113181805/http://europeangreens.org/peopleandparties/networks/gewd.html|url-status=dead|title=The Green East-West Dialogue|archive-date=January 13, 2003}}</ref>

In [[2021 Croatian local elections]] [[We can! (Croatia)|We can!]] party became the largest political party in the [[Zagreb Assembly]], winning 23 seats in total. Their mayoral candidate [[Tomislav Tomašević]] won a landslide victory on 31 May.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-30|title=Leftist-green candidate elected mayor of Croatia's capital|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/leftistgreen-candidate-elected-mayor-of-croatias-capital-croatia-zagreb-european-union-europe-adriatic-sea-b1856755.html|access-date=2021-12-15|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref>