Editing Alliance 90/The Greens (section)

===1980s: Parliamentary representation on the federal level===
In 1982, the conservative factions of the Greens broke away to form the [[Ecological Democratic Party]] (ÖDP). Those who remained in the Green party were more strongly [[Pacifism|pacifist]] and against restrictions on immigration and [[reproductive rights]], while supporting the legalisation of [[Cannabis (drug)|cannabis]] use, placing a higher priority on working for [[LGBT rights in Germany|LGBT rights]], and tending to advocate what they described as "anti-authoritarian" concepts of education and child-rearing. They also tended to identify more closely with a culture of protest and [[civil disobedience]], frequently clashing with police at demonstrations against [[nuclear weapons]], [[Nuclear power|nuclear energy]], and the construction of a new runway ({{lang|de|Startbahn West}}) at [[Frankfurt Airport]]. Those who left the party at the time might have felt similarly about some of these issues, but did not identify with the forms of protest that Green party members took part in.{{citation needed|date=March 2011}}

After some success at [[States of Germany|state-level]] elections, the party won 27 seats with {{percentage|5.7|100|1}} of the vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, in the [[1983 West German federal election|1983 federal election]]. Among the important political issues at the time was the deployment of [[Pershing II]] [[Intermediate-range ballistic missile|IRBM]]s and nuclear-tipped [[cruise missile]]s by the U.S. and [[NATO]] on West German soil, generating strong opposition in the general population that found an outlet in mass demonstrations. The newly formed party was able to draw on this popular movement to recruit support. Partly due to the impact of the [[Chernobyl disaster]] in 1986, and to growing awareness of the threat of air pollution and [[acid rain]] to German forests ({{lang|de|[[Forest dieback|Waldsterben]]}}), the Greens increased their share of the vote to {{percentage|8.3|100|1}} in the [[1987 West German federal election|1987 federal election]]. Around this time, [[Joschka Fischer]] emerged as the unofficial leader of the party, which he remained until resigning all leadership posts following the [[2005 German federal election|2005 federal election]].

The Greens were the target of attempts by the East German secret police to enlist the cooperation of members who were willing to align the party with the agenda of the [[German Democratic Republic]]. The party ranks included several politicians who were later discovered to have been [[Stasi]] agents, including [[Bundestag]] representative Dirk Schneider, [[European Parliament]] representative [[Brigitte Heinrich]], and [[Red Army Faction]] defense lawyer [[Klaus Croissant]]. Greens politician and Bundestag representative [[Gert Bastian]] was also a founding member of {{interlanguage link|Generals for Peace|de|Generale für den Frieden}}, a pacifist group created and funded by the Stasi, the revelation of which may have contributed to the murder-suicide in which he killed his partner and Greens founder [[Petra Kelly]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hilton |first1=Isabel |title=The Green with a smoking gun |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-green-with-a-smoking-gun-theres-no-mystery-about-who-killed-petra-kelly-and-her-lover-gert-1372660.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811222609/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-green-with-a-smoking-gun-theres-no-mystery-about-who-killed-petra-kelly-and-her-lover-gert-1372660.html |archive-date=11 August 2016 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=4 September 2018 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=26 April 1994}}</ref> A study commissioned by the Greens determined that 15 to 20 members intimately cooperated with the Stasi and another 450 to 500 had been informants.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chase |first1=Jefferson |title=Study confirms that Stasi infiltrated Greens |url=https://www.dw.com/en/study-confirms-that-stasi-infiltrated-greens/a-36024911 |access-date=4 September 2018 |work=[[Deutsche Welle]] | language = en |date=12 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Decker |first1=Markus |title=Das Interesse der Stasi an den Grünen |url=http://www.fr.de/politik/die-gruenen-das-interesse-der-stasi-an-den-gruenen-a-305312 | language = de |access-date=4 September 2018 |work=[[Frankfurter Rundschau]] |date=12 October 2016}}</ref>

Until 1987, the Greens included a faction involved in [[pedophile activism]], the {{lang|de|SchwuP}} short for {{lang|de|Arbeitsgemeinschaft "Schwule, Päderasten und Transsexuelle"}} (approx. ''working group "Gays, Pederasts and Transsexuals"''). This faction campaigned for repealing  § 176 of the German penal code, dealing with [[child sexual abuse]]. This group was controversial within the party itself, and was seen as partly responsible for the poor election result of 1985.<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13513384.html Torso von SchwuP] [[Der Spiegel]] 13/1985.</ref> [[:de:Pädophilie-Debatte (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)|This controversy re-surfaced in 2013]] and chairwoman [[Claudia Roth]] stated she welcomed an independent scientific investigation on the extent of influence pedophile activists had on the party in the mid-1980s.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/gruene-roth-will-paedophilie-aufarbeitung-unterstuetzen-12168499.html | title = Roth will Pädophilie-Aufarbeitung unterstützen | work = [[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]] | date = 1 May 2013 | language = de | df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/past-pedophile-links-haunt-german-green-party-a-899544.html |title=Shadows from the Past: Pedophile Links Haunt Green Party |first1=Jan | last1 =  Fleischhauer | first2 = Ann-Katrin | last2 = Müller | first3 = René | last3 = Pfister |year=2013 | work = [[Der Spiegel]]}}</ref> In November 2014, the political scientist Franz Walter presented the final report about his research on a press conference.<ref>{{cite news| last1=Leithaeuser | first1= Johannes|title=Viele Entschuldigungen und ein Erklärungsversuch|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/paedophilie-gruene-studie-zu-eigener-haltung-13261752.html|work=[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]|access-date=4 August 2015|location=[[Berlin]] | language = de |date=11 December 2014 | df = dmy-all}}</ref>