Editing Green party (section)

====Brazil====
The Brazilian [[Green Party (Brazil)|Green Party]] was constituted after the military dictatorship period and, like other Green Parties around the world, is committed to establishing a set of policies on ensuring social-equity and sustainable development. One of the party's founding members was the journalist and former anti-dictatorship revolutionary Fernando Gabeira, Alfredo Sirkis and Carlos Minc. Among the main items on the Green Party's agenda are federalism, environmentalism, human rights, a form of direct democracy, parliamentarism, welfare, civil liberties, pacifism and marijuana legalization under specific conditions.

Green Party's candidate [[Marina Silva]] won 19.33% of the vote in the first round of the [[2010 Brazilian presidential election]] (more than any other third party), taking enough votes from [[Dilma Rousseff]] of the incumbent [[Workers' Party (Brazil)|PT]] to prevent her from achieving the majority of the vote needed to avoid a second round. Success in the legislature amounted to winning 2 more seats for a total of 15 in the Chamber of Deputies and the loss of their only senate seat.

Marina Silva left the party the following year.

In the [[2014 Brazilian general election|2014 presidential election]] the Green Party's candidate [[Eduardo Jorge]] received 0,61% of the vote. He garnered attention for campaigning on a progressive platform supporting policies such as cannabis legalization and the decriminalization of abortion. Because of his perceived eccentricity and spontaneity while participating in the televised debates, Jorge became the subject of several memes on the internet. The party elected 6 federal deputies and 1 senator.

In 2016, the Greens in Congress voted in favour of the [[impeachment of Dilma Rousseff]]. The party later went on to support president Michel Temer who succeeded her.

For the [[2018 Brazilian general election|2018 presidential election]] the party formed the coalition ''United to transform Brazil'' with the [[Sustainability Network|Sustainability Network (REDE)]], in support of the candidacy of Marina Silva in her third run for the presidency. Eduardo Jorge was chosen as her running mate. Despite faring well in the initial polls, Silva ultimately received 1% of the vote. The party elected 4 federal deputies.